1. God bears witness that I am ignorant and devout
So let people attend my admission and testimony

2. This, while many a friend of mine brought me wealth
I abstained from it in my poverty and abstinence

3. The blind of insight is not guided by his onlooker
Since every blind man to him has a guiding stick

4. And I knew when I felt secure from caution
That nothing repels the woes of fate but my vigilance