1. I see people whom I regarded as lowly
And they have exceeded the bounds of baseness

2. Worldly pleasures pour upon them
And clothes that jingle with decoration

3. Our father Adam and mother Eve
And the Shariah unites us in principle

4. Why then did they inherit without my decree
As they claimed, that was not right by my reasoning

5. If I differ from them, they stand
With shoe tips to my head

6. Whenever I accompany them begging for kindness
You see them grimace and start coughing

7. You see them hoarding wealth wastefully
Like the numbers of mountains becoming dunes

8. Without a penny from it, a tooth gets extracted
And the canine breaks with the mustache getting plucked

9. So my palm has become devoid of any money
Other than my rosary, inkwell and my augury beads

10. Oh, if only I had money and goods
And I do not know my right from my left

11. Free is my mother, rather my father and grandfather's mother
And my grandmothers, uncles and aunts

12. The pen flowed with sustenance for all people
But when I came, it stopped flowing for me