الصَبرُ يوجَدُ إِن باءَ لَهُ كُسِرَت

لَكِنَّهُ بِسُكونِ الباءِ مَفقودُ

Patience is found when the baa is voweled

But with a sukoon on the baa, it is lost

وَيُحمَدُ الصابِرُ الموفي عَلى غَرَضٍ

لا عاجِزٌ بِعُرى التَقصيرِ مَعقودُ

And the patient fulfiller is praised for his goal

Not helpless, bound in the ropes of shortcoming

وَقَد نَفَت عَنكَ إِغماضاً مُلاحِيَةٌ

في كَرَمِها وَكَأَنَّ النَجمَ عُنقودُ

And an oversight has spared you her slyness

In her nobility, as if the star were knotted

وَالمَهرُ يَعطيهِ أُنثى غَيرَ مُنصِفَةٍ

سَيبٌ مِنَ اللَهِ وَالمَهرِيَّةُ القودُ

And the bride price, an unfair female gives it

God's liberty, and the wife is the fuel

وَالنَقدُ يُهدى إِلى الدينارِ مَكرُمَةً

فَلَيتَهُ بَعدَ حُسنِ الضَربِ مَنقودُ

And minted coin is gifted to the dinar in honor

If only it, after good minting, were knotted

لا يَحمِلُ اللَيلُ هَمَّ الساهِرينَ بِهِ

وَلا يُجانِبُ حُزناً وَهُوَ مَرقودُ

The night bears not the worries of those awake in it

Nor sorrow, while it remains well-knotted