1. He who blames the mule for stumbling
Is himself more foolish than its leg

2. Why were you not thunderstruck when you bore
The details of this world and the whole?

3. With the sea of knowledge and the rope of resolve
Tell the story of your experience and make it concise

4. Congratulations Zayd, take it easy
Doubt and take it easy, doubt and gently

5. He who doubts that you're the master of people
In virtue, is the most ignorant

6. Happy is he who was faithful to you
And kissed your hand toward the qiblah

7. So the whole world is an eye
O you who are the exemplary human

8. Baghdad envied Damascus because of you
And the raging envy is like the Tigris in flood

9. It loves glory with the love of
The willing acceptance of al-Abbasi to Abilah

10. I apologize for my shortcoming
I have no power except through Allah

11. How many envious enemies returned
Intensely ill and bound tightly

12. And were steadfast to enemies and steadfast
So he carried and the carried humiliated

13. Your manners, were it not for their perception
Would make you the imam of the faithless