1. Uyaynah, you have detained the old woman wanting
A loan that would aid one afflicted with poverty

2. You were stingy with Umm Al-Hayy as her ransom
Oh, how I wish you had chosen better judgment

3. You barter with Zuhair to increase his misguidance
For more than a hundred if he were an ingrate

4. He has fooled you with hidden cunning and did not cease
Until the matter became too difficult for you

5. Surely what he said the first time
Would have sufficed you, had you been a man of insight

6. He continues to show you asceticism in his old age
Which he sees as greater and more venerable than the world

7. So you call him saying, I do not desire it
When the matter of her ransom becomes feasible

8. He ransomed her for six, had you refused
You would have given her to him for nothing, and it would suffice what you see

9. Is she not, as her son said, one who for the likes of her
Except to die and be buried, there is no alternative to hardship

10. By the One, if He willed, you would not disobey His command
You have come with a reprehensible matter, O Uyaynah

11. So carry your own self upon righteousness, for it
Is more profitable than what the cultivated land bears

12. And mankind's hopes for what escapes him
If the caller calls and he turns away and leaves