1. If I had power to be obeyed, the palms
Of the life-giver's hands would not be harmed

2. By a blind miser or an immoral seer
Whose darkness leads him to be veiled and reserved

3. He goes out in vanity, attempting to gain
So he moves his astrolabe and makes predictions

4. The foolish woman stopped him, as if
When stopping at a den, she would attack

5. She asked him of an absent husband
So he was aroused, writing in cryptic letters

6. And saying what is your name, and your mother's name? Verily I
In the unseen, am an interpreter of conjectures

7. Claiming that jinn frequent his house
And he has two eloquent, one foreign and one Arabic

8. While a man struggles abroad, his bride
At home eats food that is tasteless

9. Does not the young man resent his livelihood
Except for what the stars have apportioned to him?

10. Stoning the transgressor with shoes is nobler
Than a gain that rightly deserves its owner stoned

11. Oh the secrets of my heart deceitfully
Hidden in my chest, their cover I silence

12. A wonder, for the liar of a group that does not desist
Escaping punishment though he is dumb and silent

13. How to be liberated when the simple minded are thickheaded
And the atmosphere heavy with calamities and misfortune?

14. The times are corrupt, no guidance arises
Among the people, nor misguidance either

15. Prepare and muzzle for escape, for they are all
Bridlers or muzzlers of what is bad for you

16. While good is the most blossoming thing hastened toward
Evil is gloomier with none from it abstaining

17. They laugh at you though you spoke falsely
Yet when you were truthful, they were enraged

18. It protects you from them, that you pass by them
But if you got too close, the non-Arabs would attack you