1. O just vizier, I have been
Fasting in my house out of devotion

2. But my children, though excused,
Have no patience whatsoever

3. As if your Lord created for this famine
None but them among all people

4. They have wearied me and if I delay their request
They will fly to you like solitary bats

5. So order what they asked, for it is no shame to your door
That the orphaned sons of Zuheil ibn Shihab knock