1. O Abū Ja'far, why do you forget kindness
Though you used to show me much kindness

2. I see you have forgotten our old pact
So it is lost, though it merits no loss

3. No intimate grows distant to refuse return
No absent friend intends to stay aloof

4. But for propriety, I'd chide and reproach
A fine rebuke, in verse excellently wrought

5. You'd be blamed, and after blaming, submit
Bearing reproof and feeling true remorse