1. The askers come to me continuously, and I
Do not like that asking reaches the asker.

2. But my poverty is like their obvious state,
So what can I do, when fortune is the war of virtues?

3. If the hands of events were to extend from my hands,
They would meet them before asking with my palms.

4. Why should I submit in the world to those whom
What is in their hands is not my sustenance or my term?

5. What Allah has ordained, I cannot avert it,
And they have no work in addition to what is ordained.