1. جَيرِ أَنَّ الفَتى لَفي النَصبِ الأَع

    ظَمِ بَينَ الأَهلَينِ وَالجيرانِ

    My neighbor, the young man bears the greatest tribulation

    Among family and neighbors

  2. وَحِرانُ الجَوادِ كَالحَتفِ لِلها

    رِبِ قُدّامَ ثائِرٍ حَرّانِ

    And the neighing of the generous horse is like war

    Facing the angry warrior

  3. أَنا أَدرانِيَ الرَشادُ بِأَنَّ الإِن

    سَ مَخلوقَةٌ مِنَ الأَدرانِ

    I know wisdom teaches me that man

    Is created of forethought

  4. إِن يَكُن أَبرَأَ القَضاءُ الضَنى فَه

    وَبَراني مِن بَعدِ ما أَبراني

    If fate has relieved my worries, then it

    Has relieved me after relieving me

  5. لا كَرىً نائِمٌ بِجَفني وَلا أَع

    لَمتُ في الدَهرِ فِتنَةً بِكِرانِ

    No drowsiness in my eyelids, nor have I

    Known in this life any virgin trials

  6. قَد أَراني القِياسُ أَنَّ لُيوثَ ال

    غابِ فيما يَنوبُ مِثلُ الإِرانِ

    Reason shows me that the lions of

    The forest suffer what the lambs suffer

  7. خَوَّفونا مِنَ القِرانِ وَلا بُدَّ

    لِنَفسٍ مَعَ الرَدى مِن قِرانِ

    They frightened us of fate, and the self is

    Bound to fate despite resistance

  8. كَم جِبالٍ مِنَ الجُيوشِ تَرادى

    وَالَّذي أوضِعَت لَهُ الحِجرانِ

    How many mountains of armies marched

    By that which has two stones placed for it

  9. مَرَّ آنٌ مِنَ الزَمانِ عَلى الشَخ

    صِ فَقَد خِلتُ أَنَّ دَهراً مَراني

    Time has passed over the person so I

    Have come to know that time makes me bitter

  10. وَعَراني خَطبٌ أَرادَ العَراني

    نَ بِذُلٍّ وَكُلُّها في عِرانِ

    And sandstorms wanted to make me bare

    With humility but they are all in bareness

  11. زَعَمَ الناسُ أَنَّ قَوماً مِنَ الأَب

    رارِ عولوا بِالجَوِّ بِالطَيَرانِ

    The people claimed that some of the righteous

    Depended on the atmosphere by flight

  12. وَمَشَوا فَوقَ صَفحَةِ الماءِ هَذا الإِف

    كُ هَيهاتَ ما جَرى العَصرانِ

    And walked upon the surface of the water this

    Superstition, never in times flowed

  13. ما مَشى فَوقَ لُجَّةِ الماءِ لا السَع

    دانِ فيما مَضى وَلا العُمَرانِ

    None has walked upon the surface of water, not the

    Sa'dan in the past or civilizations

  14. أَقراني ذاكَ المُضَيِّفُ ما أَك

    رَهُ وَاللَهُ غالِبُ الأَقرانِ

    That host alleviated my bitterness

    And God prevails over all hosts

  15. لَم أَبِت غافِلاً فَأَشراني الحِر

    صُ إِلى أَن أَعودَ كَالأَشرانِ

    I have not been heedless so the guard urges me

    To return like the bedouins