1. The vicissitudes come and cover a worn-out body,
So do good and avoid every backbiter.

2. People are like horses not noble without generosity,
So be generous like the family of Hallab.

3. Listen to my words and try to live by them,
For I will soon miss my students.

4. Ask God for forgiveness and leave what
Abu Al-Hudhayl and Ibn Kallab said.

5. Religion has declined until its best
Is a falcon for falconers or a dog for dog trainers.

6. Oppression seems ugly to me, I do not allow it,
If I were obeyed, they would not wear rough clothes.

7. Black people are a good kind, the best of them perform music,
So judge the children of Adam accordingly.

8. Thorn bushes do not grow vegetation even if watered
With streams from the sea of Hallab.

9. They do not wear shirts in their lands
Like barren land not covered with plants.

10. My fate is losing my way, my state is confusion
Distracted from what I want, my color the color of mourning.

11. If I arrive somewhere, my gratitude is the gratitude of lightning
That is satisfied with a drizzle from rainy clouds.

12. Support your adversary if truth gives light to him
And do not dispute with deception and force.

13. Loving your world is innate in one who dwells in it,
So I have been afflicted with a horn of it that gored me.

14. When I saw the morals of the time permit me,
I redirected my destiny to my patience, so patience subdues me.