1. Will fate's gifts of power and authority
Be proven for one from Damascus or Yemen?

2. Better for one called a king, wearing a crown
If he wore the clothes of a miserable pauper

3. If the stains of life touch me as they do all people
No old age will purify me

4. And I have aimed for nothing but dust that will change me
In it, I will leave my movement and rest

5. And I will not return to the world after they claimed
That time will satirize one like me

6. And how can I complain to the ignorant of what I experience
To people, and God's judgment complains against me

7. Have mercy on my peer in his tribulations
What used to agonize me in days agonizes him

8. Indeed, the one who makes me laugh with false words
Is the opposite of the one who makes me cry with the truth's certainty

9. And could I be happy while my soul is not pure
Because loose mouths have purified me?