1. With what stars of your face is light sought,
Abu Hasan, and your noble manners fatherhood,

2. Will you leave my need to the pretexts of procrastination
While you are the bucket in it and the rope?

3. Get close to the family of Idris ibn Badr,
For the cause of generosity is generosity itself.

4. And take them gently, for the skilled ones
Stir it into flowing freely.

5. Either my poetry succeeded regarding them,
Or the alchemy succeeded from you.

6. And say to the man Uthman words
That are too constricted by their utterance for the spacious sky.

7. Does not the saying of a youth who prays for you
With the praise he lavishes on you make you tremble?

8. So do what glory wills regarding him,
For glory does what it wills.

9. And you are the man whom glories love,
While hope rules regarding his gifts.

10. For you are not made happy by a day of praise
You became famous for, while your wealth is not diminished

11. And praise among people, if not
Accompanied by reward, is but lampooning.