1. تَغْمِطه حقه و تنهره

    لن تفلح اليوم أو غداً أبدا

    You deny him his due and rebuke him;

    you will never succeed, today or tomorrow.

  2. كيف يريد النجاة ذو غِلَظٍ

    لم يتقمَّصْ سلوكُه رَشدا

    How can a coarse man seek deliverance

    when his conduct has not embodied sound judgment?

  3. ***

    قالت: صدَّقْتُك يا هذا

    ***

    She said: "I believed you, you there—

  4. أحببْتَ جمالي و سلوكي

    قال لها:كلّا ،فكلامي

    you loved my beauty and my conduct."

    He said to her: "No, for my talk

  5. في الحب كلامٌ فيْسْبوكي

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    of love is Facebook talk."

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  6. آخُذُ الدَّرْسَ من معيشِ حياتي

    و الورى يأخذونه من كتابِ

    I draw my lesson from the life I live,

    while people take it from a book.

  7. ليس من عاش واقعا و رآه

    كالذي عاشه وراء حجابِ​

    One who has lived a reality and seen it is not

    like one who has lived it behind a veil.