1. Occupy your time with sincere prayers,
Rather than praising poets with idle words.

2. Keep yourself busy serving a kingdom that
Saw your goodness, yet spurned the grasping hands.

3. Do not blame the pen if it denounces
A gluttonous king who wrongs the innocent.

4. O you whose prayers and blessings are sought,
What praises or poems can measure your worth?

5. O you who hides your gifts, like musk
That only grows more fragrant when crushed.

6. God knows the sincerity of your prayers,
While our praise falls short, bound by awe.

7. By the truth of time, O Moses, I swear
Those who praised your virtues spoke right.