أَتاني بِإِسنادِهِ مُخبِرٌ

وَقَد بانَ لي كَذبُ الناقِلِ

A reporter brought me his account

And I saw clearly the lies of the transmitter

أَذو العِصمَةِ العاقِلُ الآدَميُّ

إِلّا كَذي العُصمَةِ العاقِلِ

The reasonable human makes mistakes

Except the one protected by reason

وَلا فَضلَ فينا وَلَكِنَّها

حُظوظٌ مِنَ الفَلَكِ الصاقِلِ

There is no superiority between us

Just fortunes from the spinning sky

فَهَذا كَسَحبانَ لَمّا اِحتَبى

وَذَلِكَ في سَمَلَي باقِلِ

So this one stumbled when tested

And that one in fertile land lies fallow