رأيتُ ذنوبَ العالمين قبيحةً
وأقبحُهَا طُرًّا مخامرةُ الخمرِ
I saw the sins of humankind as ugly,
And the ugliest of them all is partaking of wine.
فإن الخنا صدع وفي العقل جبرة
وإن لم يكن عقللا فيأساً من الجبر
For depravity is a fracture, and in reason lies its mending;
And if reason is absent, then despair of mending.
فما حالُ مَن كلُّ المساوي جميلةٌ
لديه وحتم السرِّ في قبضة الجهر
What, then, of one when all misdeeds are beautiful
in his eyes, and secrecy's decree lies in disclosure's grasp?
يرى البدر وهو البدر في صبغة الدُّجى
ويسمع لفظ النَّهي في صيغة الأمر
He sees the full moon—though it is the full moon—in darkness's hue,
And hears prohibition's wording in the form of a command.
وأعظم من هذا وذلك كلِّه
عذابُ لظىً ما لامرىءٍ فيه من الصبر
And greater than all this and that
Is the torment of blazing fire, which no one can endure.
Sol 6.1