عَجباً لقومٍ يحسُدونَ فضائِلي

عَجباً لقومٍ يحسُدونَ فضائِلي

ما بين عُتَّابٍ إِلى عُذَّالِ

ما بين عُتَّابٍ إِلى عُذَّالِ

How strange are people who envy my virtues,

How strange are people who envy my virtues

ranging from reproachers to censurers.

From Uttaab to Uththaal.

عتَبُوا على فضلي وذمُّوا حِكمتي

عتَبُوا على فضلي وذمُّوا حِكمتي

واستوحشوا من نقصِهم وكمالي

واستوحشوا من نقصِهم وكمالي

They reproached me for my excellence and disparaged my wisdom,

They blamed me for my excellence and defamed my wisdom,

and recoiled from their shortcomings and my perfection.

And felt dejected by their flaws and my perfection.

إِنى وكيدَهُمُ وما نَبحُوا بهِ

إِنى وكيدَهُمُ وما نَبحُوا بهِ

كالطَوْدِ يحقرُ نطحةَ الأوعالِ

كالطَوْدِ يحقرُ نطحةَ الأوعالِ

I, in the face of their scheming and all they barked,

I and their plots and what they barked with

am like a mountain that scorns the butting of ibex.

Are like the mountain that belittles the butting of lambs.

وإِذا الفتَى عرفَ الرشادَ لنفسِهِ

وإِذا الفتَى عرفَ الرشادَ لنفسِهِ

هانتْ عليهِ ملامةُ الجُهَّالِ

هانتْ عليهِ ملامةُ الجُهَّالِ

And when a young man knows the right path for himself,

And when a young man knows what's right for himself

the reproach of the ignorant means little to him.

The blame of fools becomes trivial to him.