1. I was told that Abu Hanifa
blamed me among the blamers

2. My son, have you felt the death
of your uncle, the father of sons?

3. And my father who was gracious
in winter, he had two coats

4. Abu Shureih and Al-Muhami
when we met in distress

5. The white young men, the tolerant
they were filled with resolve and calm

6. I have not seen nor heard
of their like in both worlds

7. Their souls remained while they
were adornment to the beholder

8. So if I revolted against them
the rebels cannot find them

9. I remained after them while I
was saddened by their long company

10. Leave me and whatever possesses
my right hand if I raise concerns

11. And do with your money what
appeals to you, be it scarce or abundant

12. And refrain from the neighbors and grant
them your fat livelihood

13. And spend the tenderness of the pot if
its sides are covered in smoke and cooking

14. This pot, if cooked and hurried
before it what we desire

15. Indeed the pots are pregnant
and give the best of what was herded

16. And when you bury your father
make wood and clay above him

17. And deaf slabs whose
branches make firm the sides

18. To protect the face of man from
the sliding sands and they will not protect

19. Then consider the praise of your
departed as he lay in a narrow grave

20. And they turned back the dust of parting
from their brother disappointed

21. Those virtues, if kept
will never be seen lost

22. In disturbance like fearful ewes
who suffer what we have suffered

23. Stripped in the plain of poetry
virgins and helpers

24. And I warned after death a day
names of the dignified are disgraced