لِكُلِّ هَمٍّ مِنَ الهُمومِ سَعَه

وَالمُسيُ وَالصُبحُ لا فَلاحَ مَعَه

For every worry from worries, there is relief

And the evening and the dawn, there is no escape with it

ما بالُ مَن سَرَّهُ مُصابُكَ لا

يَملِكُ شَيئاً مِن أَمرِهِ وَزَعَه

What is with he who gladdens your affliction? He does not

Possess anything from his matter and scatteredness

أَذودُ عَن حَوضِهِ وَيَدفَعُني

يا قَومِ مَن عاذِري مِنَ الخُدَعَه

I defend my basin and he pushes me away

Oh people, who excuses me from deception?

حَتّى إِذا ما اِنجَلَت عَمايَتُهُ

أَقبَلَ يَلحى وَغَيُّهُ فَجَعَه

Until when his blindness clears up

He comes rubbing and his madness injures him

قَد يَجمَعُ المالَ غَيرُ آكِلِهِ

وَيَأكُلُ المالَ غَيرُ مَن جَمَعَه

He may gather money without eating it

And eat money without gathering it

وَيَقطَعُ الثَوبَ غَيرُ لا بِسِهِ

وَيَلبِسُ الثَوبَ غَيرُ مَن قَطَعَه

And cut cloth without wearing it

And wear cloth without cutting it

فَاِقبَل مِنَ الدَهرِ ما أَتاكَ بِهِ

مَن قَرَّ عَيناً بَعَيشِهِ نَفَعَه

So accept from time what came to you with it

He who delighted an eye with his livelihood benefited it

وَصِل حِبالَ البَعيدِ إِن وَصَلَ ال

حَبلَ وَاِقصِ القَريبَ إِن قَطَعَه

And reconcile the rope of the distant one, if he did not reconcile

The rope, then estrange the near one, if he cut it off

وَلا تُهينَ الفَقيرَ عَلَّكَ أَن

تَركَعَ يَوماً وَالدَهرُ قَد رَفَعَه

And do not disgrace the poor, perhaps you will bow down one day

And time had already raised him