تَواضَعْ تكنْ ممَّا يَشِينُك سالِماً

تَواضَعْ تكنْ ممَّا يَشِينُك سالِماً

فكم جَرَّ نَفْعاً لِلَّبِيبِ التَّواضُعُ

فكم جَرَّ نَفْعاً لِلَّبِيبِ التَّواضُعُ

Be humble, and you will be safe from whatever mars you.

Be humble lest pride should disgrace you

For how often humility has brought benefit to the discerning.

So much good has humility brought the wise

وللإسْمِ بالتَّصغير جَمْعُ سَلامةٍ

وللإسْمِ بالتَّصغير جَمْعُ سَلامةٍ

وإن كان فيه قبلَ ذاك مَوانِعُ

وإن كان فيه قبلَ ذاك مَوانِعُ

And through diminutivization, a noun can take a sound plural,

By adding the diminutive to a name accrues integrity

Even if, before that, it had impediments to doing so.

Even if there were in it previously hindrances