1. I began with gratitude in poetry whose couplets
Are strict, sharp and piercing couplets

2. You praised yourself when you abandoned courtesy
From it for all people

3. You stripped me while favoring what you have specified for me
Of virtues in prose and poetry

4. And I have a conversation I will reveal even if you are
Considerate of my sufferings and pains

5. Advanced age, poverty, and expatriation
Along with what I was afflicted with in legs and feet

6. Sometimes I recover and sometimes I suffer illness
And death lurks between cold and illness

7. And living in a time that its people have turned
To pleasure, ill thoughts, and sickness

8. I see souls whose rancor blinds their eyes
From hearts with hatred not concealed

9. They are not guided to any good to utter
A word while its implication seduces my blood

10. My Lord, peace be upon me and do not
Be satisfied with that except with complete silence

11. I am imploring the Misfortune
That if it afflicts those who can endure it

12. No, by Him whom I fold and unfold
From mentioning your grace between Arabs and non-Arabs

13. And what my heart contains of agony
Over youth, and my oath by the Prophet suffices me

14. And by loyalty if an aberrant one departs
And truly what I contained of the resolve of my determination