1. How to attain wealth when stinginess is the people's wisdom?
Slaying the misers has become tradition.

2. Take from your time whatever brings you no harm,
Snatching with blows and ravaging all its shields.

3. We thought truth would benefit us and take away all distress,
Until we were mocked for being hopeful and they believed our suspicions.

4. They said you fled humiliation and disgrace. I said: it indeed
Sprouted with us in the land of Iraq but we did not experience its affliction.

5. Except for departing, the country had enough of transporting nobles forcibly exiled.
If I stay, I will afflict it with tranquil souls.

6. Clench your hand on my tomorrow, for I am the expectation of suspicions.
I am from the chiefs of ‘Utaik and the devils are my neighbors.

7. If you do not become rebellious Babylon in the morning,
You will leave all the non-Arabs while their hearts are enveloped in deaf tongues.