1. Ummamah said one day at Burqah in Wasit:
"O son of al-Ghadir, you have surely begun to change!

2. After your fresh youth whose bitterness is over,
And your branch still green, you have become

3. An old man, your staff as your support and your companion,
Who seeks no news and asks no questions.

4. So I answered her: Does he who lives long not admit
What you have claimed and cease to look into the mirror?

5. And indeed I have seen the like of what you reproached me
Advance upon you with time and rise early.

6. And my little son kept watch over me when family filled me
And I was honored, not cowed.

7. And I drank from the little goblet and it led me
Toward proper manners from my youngest son."