1. O Abu Bakr, you have wrongly suspected
One whose nature is standoffishness and dissent,

2. And you feared for me being alone with him,
Yet between us there was no situation to fear.

3. I have spurned, since my youth, that which should not be spurned,
And I have excused that which cannot be excused.

4. So if I had intended an ugly deed
In private, honor would have awakened me.