إِنّي لِأُكرِمُ نَفسي عَن إِهانَتِها

إِنّي لِأُكرِمُ نَفسي عَن إِهانَتِها

يَوماً مِنَ الدَهرِ فيما لَيسَ بِالباقي

يَوماً مِنَ الدَهرِ فيما لَيسَ بِالباقي

Indeed, I hold myself above humiliation,

I will surely honor my soul one day

at any time, for anything that will not endure.

Against disgracing it during my ephemeral life

وَذاكَ مِنِّيَ أَنّي لَم أَزَل رَجُلا

وَذاكَ مِنِّيَ أَنّي لَم أَزَل رَجُلا

لا تَرتَضي لِيَ أَخلاقي بِأَخلاقي

لا تَرتَضي لِيَ أَخلاقي بِأَخلاقي

And that is because I have always been a man

That is just who I am, I have always been a man

whose character will not let me be clad in rags.

Who is not pleased with himself or his manners