لَعَمرُكَ ما أَنجاكَ طِرفُكَ في الوَغى

لَعَمرُكَ ما أَنجاكَ طِرفُكَ في الوَغى

مِنَ المَوتِ لَكِنَّ القَضاءَ الَّذي يُنَجّي

مِنَ المَوتِ لَكِنَّ القَضاءَ الَّذي يُنَجّي

By your life, your steed did not save you in battle

By your life, your glance in battle

From death; rather, it is fate that saves.

Did not save you from death, but fate who saves.

فَلا تَكُ زيراً لِلنِساءِ وَإِن تَمِل

فَلا تَكُ زيراً لِلنِساءِ وَإِن تَمِل

لَهُنَّ فَلا تَأذَن لِزيرٍ وَلا صَنجِ

لَهُنَّ فَلا تَأذَن لِزيرٍ وَلا صَنجِ

So do not be a womanizer; and if you incline

So do not be submissive to women, and if you are weary

Toward them, then lend no ear to lute-string or cymbal.

Of them, then do not permit a submissive man, nor pale woman

وَلا تَدنُ لِلصَهباءِ بِنتاً لِأَبيَضٍ

وَلا تَدنُ لِلصَهباءِ بِنتاً لِأَبيَضٍ

وَلا تَقرَبِ الحَمراءَ مِن وَلَدِ الزَنجِ

وَلا تَقرَبِ الحَمراءَ مِن وَلَدِ الزَنجِ

Nor draw near the tawny wine, daughter of a white one,

The daughter of a white man,

Nor approach the red wine, offspring of the Zanj.

Nor go near the red woman the child of the black man.