تَوَهَّمَ الجاهِلُ المَغرورُ عَن سَفَهٍ

أَنَّ الفَضيلَةَ في الإِثراءِ لِلرَجُلِ

The ignorant, deluded fool out of folly

Imagined that virtue for a man lies in wealth,

وَظَنَّ أَنَّ لِباسَ الزُهدِ مَنقَصَةٌ

إِذا غَدا المَرءَ عَرياناً مِنَ الحُلَلِ

And thought that the garb of asceticism was a disgrace

If a man should go about naked, without clothes.

وَما دَرى لِتَعاميهِ وَغَرَّتهُ

بِأَنَّ حِليَةَ أَهلِ الفَضلِ في العَطَلِ

But in his heedlessness and conceit he did not know

That the adornment of the virtuous lies in their deeds.