أعفّاء تحسَبُهم للحيا

أعفّاء تحسَبُهم للحيا

ء مرضى تطاولَ أسقامُها

ء مرضى تطاولَ أسقامُها

So chaste, you would think them, from modesty—

Chaste men—you would think them, from their modesty,

The tolerant you take for cowards

sick, their illnesses long prolonged;

sick, their ailments long prolonged.

Whose lingering illness made them weak

يهون عليهم إذا يغضبو

يهون عليهم إذا يغضبو

ن سُخطُ العِداة وإرغامُها

ن سُخطُ العِداة وإرغامُها

yet when they grow angry, they make light of

When they grow angry, of little moment to them are

They care not when angered

their enemies’ wrath and humiliation,

their enemies’ wrath and the humbling of them,

By the wrath and coercion of foes

ورَتقُ الفتوق وفتقُ الرتوقِ

ورَتقُ الفتوق وفتقُ الرتوقِ

ونقض الأمور وإبرامها

ونقض الأمور وإبرامها

the mending of breaches and the breaking of bonds,

and mending rifts and tearing open mended seams,

Joining rifts and mending bonds

the undoing of affairs and their settlement.

and undoing affairs and settling them firmly.

Undoing deals and sealing pacts