ماذا تُريدُ سُلَيْمى من خَلِيِّ يَدٍ

تَعَفُّفاً طَلَّقَ الدُّنْيا وما فيها

What does Sulayma want from an empty-handed friend?

Modestly, he divorced himself from the world and all in it.

تَسوقُهُ هِمَّةٌ لله خالِصَةٌ

على الكَواكِبِ قد جَرَّتْ حَواشيها

He is led by sincerity and pure devotion to God,

Pulling its train behind it across the stars.

كُلُّ الشُّؤُنِ لها سِرٌّ يَقومُ بها

ويُظْهِرُ الرَّمزَ من مَطْوِيِّ خافيها

All his affairs have a secret cause upholding them,

And reveals symbols from its hidden, folded interior.

وما على العَبْدِ إن كانَ الإلهُ لهُ

بأسٌ ولا رَيبَ يُحْيِ الأرضَ داحيها

What cause has a servant if God is for him,

With neither harm nor doubt, bringing the land to life?

يَرْمي الحَسودُ امْرَأً بَرًّا بِمَثْلَبَةٍ

والله يُعطيهِ إعلاءً وتَنْزيها

The envious man throws an innocent man down a pit,

Yet God raises him up, exalting and sanctifying him.

فَدَعْ سُلَيْمى ولا تَعْبَأ بِزَفْرَتِها

فإنَّ زَفْرَتَها السَّوْداءَ تَكْويها

Leave Sulayma be, pay no mind to her snarling,

For her black snarling only burns her.

تَرومُ إسْقاطَ مَلْحوظٍ بِحُفْرَتِها

خَابَتْ سَتَسْقُطُ عن رَغْمٍ لها فيها

She hopes to bring down one in high regard with her pit,

She has failed—she will fall in it, in spite of herself.