1. O you who attained nobility above all creatures
And ascended to a station beyond the two luminaries

2. And judged the people with truth as your guide
Along a path you laid out for civilization

3. The trait of nobility, as I knew, is when
A servant shows them forgiveness in taking from them

4. All is trivial except the gloating of my envious enemies
When so-and-so encounters so-and-so

5. They blackened out of envy the whiteness of my page
With the decorations of words and false accusations

6. Why did the enemies not suffice reminding me
Of the words of the eloquent, assembly of al-Jurjani

7. You demolished my structure and rebuilt me
With your hands into the best built structure

8. So upon you is to straighten me if I lean
For you were the one who built me in the first place