صنعُ الجميلِ وَفعلُ الخيرِ إِنْ أُثِرا

أبقى وَأَحمد أَعمال الفتى أَثَرا

Doing good and kindness, if intended

Are more lasting and praised are the youth's deeds

بَلْ لستُ أَفهم معنى للحياة سوى

عن الضعيفِ وإنقاذ الذي عثرا

But I understand the meaning of life only as

Helping the weak and saving those who stumbled

والناسُ ما لم يواسوا بعضَهمْ فهمُ

كالسائماتِ وَإِن سمَّيتهمْ بشرا

And people, unless they comfort each other, are

Like the displeased, even if called human

إِنْ كان قلبك لم تعطفه عاطفةٌ

عَلى المساكين فاستبدلْ به حجرا

If your heart was not softened by affection

For the poor, then replace it with a stone

هي الإغاثةُ عنوانُ الحياةِ فإِنْ

فقدتها كنت مَيْتاً بعد ما قبرا

Giving aid is the title of life, so if

You lose it, you are dead though buried

ديني الذي عُظِّمَتْ عندي شعائرُهُ

وَدينُ كلِّ امرئٍ قد رقَّ أو شعرا

My religion whose rituals I revered

And every person's religion who was moved or felt

خفضُ الجناحِ لأَبناءِ السبيل إذا

ما ازداد خدي لذي الكبريا صعرا

Lowering the wing for the wayfarers when

My arrogance against the elderly increased

بسْلٌ عَلَى العينِ تكرى بالنعيم إِذا

ما كان جاريَ من ضرَّائِه سهرا

A sight is burdensome with blessings when

My neighbor stayed up nightly due to his troubles

فجنةُ الخلدِ ما أَنفكُّ أَحسبها

إذا انفردت بها دون الورى سقرا

I never cease to think that the eternal paradise

If I alone kept it, would be hell for others

قومي: وَدعوتهمْ قد كانتِ الجَفَلى

إن كان غيرهمُ يختصُّ بالنَقَرى

My people: Their supplication was mean

If others specifically get sustenance

المؤثرون وَلو أَعيت خصاصتهمْ

والحافظونَ إذا ما غيرهم غدرا

The charitable even if their qualities tired them

And the protectors even if others betrayed

"مَنْ ""كابن مامة"" إيثاراً لصاحبه"

يعالجُ الموتَ في الإِيثار مصطبرا

"He who is like Mama in preferring his companion"

Meets death through charity with pride

يقول: وَهو عَلَى وِرد الردى ظَمِىءٌ

من حيث صاحبه ريّان قد صدرا

He says: while thirsty and nearing demise

Whereas his friend is quenched and at ease

لو أَعْوَزَ الماءُ أَصحابي سقيتهم

دمي وَلست عَلَى العِلاَّت معتذرا

If my companions lacked water I would give them

My blood and make no excuses for my illness

إِن فاتك الخيرُ والإِحسان في بطلٍ

"حيّى البطولةَ والإِحسانَ في ""عمرا"""

If you missed goodness and benevolence in a hero

"Revive heroism and benevolence in ""Omar"""

"أَمسى ""الخليفة"" يولى مِن معونتِه"

مَنْ أنشب الجوعُ في أَطفالِها ظفرا

The Caliph stayed up to give sustenance

To those whom hunger pierced their children

وقوفُه عندها بالباب منكسرا

"أَجلُّ منه بباب ""القدس"" منتصرا"

His standing at her door bent over

"Nobler than him at Jerusalem's door victorious"

بنتَ العفافِ وَأُختَ الطهرِ يا بأَبي

أكاد أَعبدُ فيك الطهرَ والخَفَرا

O daughter of chastity and sister of purity

I almost worship purity and dusk in you

"إنَّ الحنانَ ""وَأَسرار الحياة به"""

فضيلةٌ شَأَتِ الأُنثى بها الذكرا

"Kindness and the secrets of life are in it"

A virtue the female surpassed the male

ما راض جامح نفسي للقريض سوى

معنى الحنانِ وَمعنى البؤس إذْ خطرا

Nothing appeased my defiant soul except

The meaning of kindness and meaning of misery when pondered

فالرودُ تحنو عَلَى الأَيتام ماسحةً

من أَدمعِ اليتمِ ما قدْ حار أَو قطرا

So the gazelle gently comforts orphans, wiping

The tears of orphanhood that were confused or dropped

أبهى لدى النفس منها وَهي خاطرةٌ

تجري مدامعُ من هاموا بها نهرا

More beautiful to my soul than it, while it worries,

Are the tears flowing from those who loved her like rivers

فأنتِ ما بين صرعى الفقر أَعظم منْ

متوَّجٍ حوله القوّادُ والأُمرا

You are, between my two sides of poverty, greater than

A crowned king surrounded by flatterers and commanders

ظأْمنتِ لوعةَ أَيتامٍ وَأَرملة

ما شئتِ بين ضلوعي فاقدحي شررا

You consoled the agony of orphans and a widow

However you wished within my ribs so strike the sparks

وَمذْ أَسوتِ جراحَ البائسين لقدْ

أسقطتُ دعوايَ في قلبٍ بكِ انفطرا

And since you healed the wounds of the miserable

I dropped my grievance into a heart that cracked