1. O Abu Abd Allah Hattam I hasten
For you in what I intend month after month

2. Is there for this pausing from you and my running
An end point for the running to end?

3. I do not see in fulfilling what I aimed difficulty
And if there was, there is for difficulty, ease

4. Repayment of my money and there are for me no books
Perplexing, O insightful one, my thoughts

5. And if I said in it there is length, then write
For me delivery of what I paid to be dutiful

6. I wonder in this pausing of yours
Is it length of running you intend or did you aim for a reward