Claude 2

  1. لا تَأنَفَنَّ مِن اِحتِرافِكَ طالِباً

    حِلّاً وَعَدِّ مَكاسِبَ الفُجّارِ

    Do not disdain your profession if you seek

    A solution, and count the earnings of wrongdoers.

  2. فَالمَجدُ أَدرَكَهُ عَلى عِلّاتِهِ

    قَومٌ بِيَثرِبَ مِن بَني النَجّارِ

    For glory was attained by the carpenter folk

    In Yathrib, the sons of an-Najjar.

  3. وَإِذا أَمِنَت عَلى الظَعينَةِ زِلَّةً

    فَاِصفَح إِن اِطَّلَعَت مِنَ الإِجّارِ

    And if you fear a slip on a slippery surface,

    Then overlook it if it comes from a leaseholder.

  4. فَلِهَذِهِ النَفسِ لَكَذوبِ تَشَوّفٌ

    حَتّى تُكَفُّ عَنِ الأَذى بِهجارِ

    For this soul has a desire to lie

    Until it refrains from harm through estrangement.

  5. وَالقَولُ يُوَجِعُ وَالعِتابُ ضَغينَةٌ

    وَالهَجرُ مُشتَقٌّ عَنِ الإِهجارِ

    And words hurt, reproach is a grudge,

    And estrangement derives from boycotting.

  6. فَاِختَر لِنَفسِكَ مَنزِلاً تَخلو بِهِ

    كُلُّ الثَعالِبِ رائِحٌ لَوِجارِ

    So choose for yourself a dwelling where you have privacy,

    For all foxes smell out a neighbor.

  7. رَأسُ ابنِ آدَمَ أَصلُهُ وَفُروعُهُ

    قَدَماهُ ضِدُّ النَبتِ وَالأَشجارِ

    The head of the son of Adam, its origin and branches

    Are his feet, the opposite of plants and trees.

  8. وَإِذا قَطَعتَ رُؤوسَ تِلكَ فَجائِزٌ

    يَوماً تَراجُعُها بِحُكمٍ جاري

    And if you cut off those heads, it is permissible

    One day to get them back by an operative decree.

  9. وَمَتّى نَزَعتَ لِحِلفِ روحٍ هامَةً

    فَهُوَ الرَدى عَمداً بِغَيرِ شِجارِ

    And when you pull out the passionate soul of an oath-swearer,

    Then it is destruction intentionally without estrangement.

  10. وَالشَرُّ في طَبعِ الأَنامِ فَإِن يُبِن

    شَيئاً سِواهُ فَلَيسَ خِيَمَ نِجارِ

    And evil is in people's nature. So if it shows

    Anything besides it, then it is not a tent pitchers tent.

  11. هَفَتِ الجِبالُ مِنَ الرِجالِ بِعَسجَدٍ

    أَو فِضَّةٍ وَهُما مِنَ الأَحجارِ

    Did the mountains bring down the men with languor

    Or silver while both are from minerals?

  12. رَغِبوا فَأَزهَدُ مَن تَرى فَوقَ الثَرى

    يَبغونَ عِندَ اللَهِ رِبحَ تِجارِ

    They were desirous but I disdain whoever you see above the earth

    Seeking profit with God, the profit of trade.