1. Your love has wearied and saddened me,
Though the proud are hardly wont to pine.

2. If you seek to torment and destroy a life,
You need but turn to Sulaima or Mahdada.

3. Yet if you wish blessing and happy success,
You need but meet Ibn Ma’n or Muhammad.

4. Gentle he is, though gentleness has failed;
If wrath like fire inflamed him, he would give no vent.

5. Open-handed; if the flood of his bounty broke forth,
Strife would give way to concord amongst mankind forever.

6. Wise; if his wisdom equaled the sun,
Thirst would never find the water's trace.

7. If the temper of his mind matched the Indian steel,
David had not fashioned his coat of mail unpierced.