بَلَوتُ بَني الدُنيا فَلَم أَرَفيهِمُ

بَلَوتُ بَني الدُنيا فَلَم أَرَفيهِمُ

سِوى مَن غَدا وَالبُخلُ مِلءُ ثِيابِهِ

سِوى مَن غَدا وَالبُخلُ مِلءُ ثِيابِهِ

I tested the sons of this world and saw none among them

I tested the people of this world, but found in them

Except those who went about with miserliness filling their robes.

None except the miser with meanness filling his clothes.

فَجَرَّدتُ مِن غِمدِ القَناعَةِ مُرهَفاً

فَجَرَّدتُ مِن غِمدِ القَناعَةِ مُرهَفاً

قَطَعتُ رَجائي مِنهُم بِذُبابِهِ

قَطَعتُ رَجائي مِنهُم بِذُبابِهِ

So I unsheathed a keen-edged sword from the scabbard of contentment;

So I stripped myself of the scabbard of contentment, unsheathing my sword,

With its point I severed my hope of them.

And cut off my hopes in them with its edge.

فَلا ذا يَراني قائِماً في طَريقِهِ

فَلا ذا يَراني قائِماً في طَريقِهِ

وَلا ذا يَراني جالِساً عِندَ بابِهِ

وَلا ذا يَراني جالِساً عِندَ بابِهِ

So this one does not see me standing in his path,

Thus none shall see me standing in their path,

Nor does that one see me sitting at his door.

Nor sitting at their door.