1. فَعَلتَ فِعلَ تِجارٍ مُخسِرينَ بِهِ

    فَاِعبُد إِلَهَكَ تُرزَقُ خَيرَ مُتَّجَرِ

    You have acted like merchants who incur a loss thereby.

    So worship your God; you will be granted the best of trade.

  2. ما لِلمَذاهِبِ قَد أَمسَت مُغَيَّرَةً

    لَها اِنتِسابٌ إِلى القُدّاحِ أَو هَجَرِ

    What ails the creeds, now so altered,

    affiliated with al-Qaddah or Hajar?

  3. قالوا البَريَّةُ فَوضى لا حِسابَ لَها

    وَإِنَّما هِيَ مِثلُ النَبتِ وَالشَجَرِ

    They said, "Humankind is ungoverned, with no reckoning for it,

    and it is merely like plants and trees."

  4. فَالجاهِليَّةُ خَيرٌ مِن إِباحَتِهِم

    سَجيَّةَ الحارِثِ الحَرّابِ أَو حُجُرِ

    So the old pagan ways are better than their permissiveness—

    the way of al-Harith the warrior, or Hujr.

  5. فَما أَفادوا سِوى إِحلالِ نِسوَتِهِم

    مُعَرَّضاتٍ لِأَهلِ الباطِنِ الفُجُرِ

    So they achieved nothing but permitting access to their women,

    exposed to the depraved adherents of esoteric doctrine.

  6. وَإِنَّ أَحسَنَ مِن تَعظيمِهِم رَجُلاً

    صِفراً مِنَ الحِكَمِ التَعظيمُ لِلحَجَرِ

    And indeed, better than their veneration of a man

    devoid of wisdom is veneration of a stone.

  7. وَهَل ثَعالِبُ طَيٍّ في مَنازِلِها

    إِلّا ثَعالِبُ وَحشٍ بِتنَ في الوجُرِ

    And are the foxes of Tayy, in their dwellings,

    anything but wild foxes that have spent the night in dens?

  8. ضَلَّ الأَنامُ وَهاذا مَنهَجٌ أُمَمٌ

    يَهدي إِلى الحَقِّ فَاِسلُكهُ وَلاتَجُرِ

    Humankind has gone astray, and this is a straight path

    that leads to truth; so follow it, and do not stray.

  9. خَلِّ العِبادَ وَما اِختاروا فَمُلكُهُمُ

    إِذا نَظَرتَ كَعَبدٍ راحَ مُؤتَجَرِ

    Leave people to what they have chosen; for their dominion,

    when you consider it, is like a slave gone out on hire.

  10. يَغنيكَ ظِلُّ سَيالٍ يُستَظَلُّ بِهِ

    عَن سائِلِ التِبرِ في البُنيانِ وَالحُجَر

    The shade of an acacia, beneath which one shelters, suffices you

    instead of molten gold in buildings and chambers.