أَلَم تَرَ أَنّي أَجعَلُ الوَأيَ ذِمَّةً
أَخو الغَدرِ عِندي رَوغَةُ المَرءِ بِالوَعدِ
Have you not seen that I treat a promise as a binding obligation?
To me, a man's evasion of his promise is brother to treachery.
وَما رَجُلٌ لا يَقتَفي بِكَلامِهِ
بِموفٍ بِميثاقٍ عَليهِ وَلا عَهدِ
And a man who does not follow through on his words
fulfills neither a covenant binding upon him nor a pledge.
إِذا المَرءُ ذو القُربى وَذو الذَنبِ أَجحَفَت
بِهِ ضَرَّةٌ حَلَّت مُصيبَتُهُ حِقدي
If a man, both kinsman and wrongdoer, is sorely afflicted
by adversity, his misfortune dissolves my resentment.
Sol 6.1