دَارِ الْبَرِيَّةَ إن تُرِدْ

دَارِ الْبَرِيَّةَ إن تُرِدْ

شَرَفاً ودَعْ عنك الْحَيَا

شَرَفاً ودَعْ عنك الْحَيَا

Humor people if you desire

If you seek glory in this vain life

honor, and cast modesty aside.

Abandon it, let it be far from you

إن الرِّياسةَ كاسْمِها

إن الرِّياسةَ كاسْمِها

فاسْمَعْ أوائِلُها رِيَا

فاسْمَعْ أوائِلُها رِيَا

Indeed, leadership is as its name suggests:

For leadership is like its name

so hear its opening: 'riyā'—ostentation.

Listen, its beginnings are pretense