ماوِيَّةُ المَرأَةِ لا تَصحَبُ الما

ماوِيَّةُ المَرأَةِ لا تَصحَبُ الما

وِيَّةَ المَرأَةَ مِن عُجبِها

وِيَّةَ المَرأَةَ مِن عُجبِها

A woman's mirror does not accompany Mā-

A woman's coquetry does not accompany wisdom,

wiyya, the woman, out of her vanity,

A woman's coquetry arises from her vanity,

لِعِلمِها أَنَّ الَّذي صاغَها

لِعِلمِها أَنَّ الَّذي صاغَها

آثَرَها بِالحُسنِ في حُجبِها

آثَرَها بِالحُسنِ في حُجبِها

for she knows that the one who fashioned her

For she knows that He who created her,

favored her with beauty within her veils.

Preferred her beauty behind her veil.

لَو كانَتِ الدُنيا لَها مَنزِلاً

لَو كانَتِ الدُنيا لَها مَنزِلاً

ما قُلتُ عَن مَعرِفَةٍ عُج بِها

ما قُلتُ عَن مَعرِفَةٍ عُج بِها

Were the world a dwelling place for her,

Had this world been her abode,

I would not knowingly have said, 'Turn aside to her.'

I would not have spoken of her mystifying vanity,

سيرَ بِنا فَاِنظُر إِلى رُفقَةٍ

سيرَ بِنا فَاِنظُر إِلى رُفقَةٍ

لا تَضَعُ الأَكوارَ عَن نُجبِها

لا تَضَعُ الأَكوارَ عَن نُجبِها

We have been borne along; look, then, at a company

Walk with us and look at a company of women

that does not remove the saddles from its noble camels.

Who do not remove their veils from their faces.