إِلبِس أَخاكَ عَلى عُيوبِه

إِلبِس أَخاكَ عَلى عُيوبِه

وَاِستُر وَغَطِّ عَلى ذُنوبِه

وَاِستُر وَغَطِّ عَلى ذُنوبِه

Accept your brother despite his faults.

Cover your brother's faults

Bear with your brother despite his flaws,

And conceal and cover over his sins.

And conceal and hide his sins

And veil and cover his transgressions.

وَاِصبِر عَلى ظُلمِ السَفيهِ

وَاِصبِر عَلى ظُلمِ السَفيهِ

وَلِلزَمانِ عَلى خُطوبِه

وَلِلزَمانِ عَلى خُطوبِه

And patiently bear the fool’s injustice.

And be patient with the injustice of the fool

Be patient with the injustice of the fool,

And bear with time through its calamities.

And with time and its calamities

And with the calamities brought by Time.

وَدَعِ الجَوابَ تَفَضُّلاً

وَدَعِ الجَوابَ تَفَضُّلاً

وَكِلِ الظَلومَ إِلى حَسيبِه

وَكِلِ الظَلومَ إِلى حَسيبِه

And forgo a reply out of magnanimity.

And abstain from answering out of kindness

Forgo the retort out of graciousness,

And leave the wrongdoer to his reckoner.

And leave the oppressor to his reckoning

And entrust the oppressor to his Judge.

وَاِعلَم بِأَنَّ الحِلمَ عِن

وَاِعلَم بِأَنَّ الحِلمَ عِن

دَ الغَيظِ أَحسَنُ مِن رُكوبِه

دَ الغَيظِ أَحسَنُ مِن رُكوبِه

And know that forbearance at

And know that patience in suppressing anger

And know that forbearance when anger strikes

a moment of rage is better than yielding to it.

Is better than giving in to it

Is better than giving it rein.