1. سَلي الطارِقَ المُعتَرَّ يا أُمَّ مالِكٍ

    إِذا ما أَتاني بَينَ قَدري وَمَجزِري

    Ask the needy night visitor, O Umm Malik,

    when he comes to me between my cooking pot and my slaughtering place,

  2. أَيُسفِرُ وَجهي إِنَّهُ أَوَّلُ القِرى

    وَأَبذُلُ مَعروفي لَهُ دونَ مُنكَري

    whether my face brightens—it is the first act of hospitality—

    and I freely offer him my kindness, not my ill-treatment.