1. Tell the one who loves eloquent speech,
Leave him, for more eloquent than his eloquence is blindness,

2. And beware of revealing an enlightened address,
For people have become an obscure response,

3. Live ignorantly, you will find ignorance a cloak,
And ignorance glory, and foolishness profitable,

4. The life of the eloquent is more bitter than
The life of the sick when he takes aloes,

5. And who has his eloquence pushed away adversity,
Except the heart of the king, may his glory last,

6. The best chests are pastures of knowledge,
And gentleness, subtleties and generosity,

7. Does anyone other than him rule the world with talents?
If they were formulated, they would become stars,

8. The disagreements that differed testified to them, and did not
Agree that they agreed, awake and imagining,

9. My Master, my eloquence did not give me
The livelihood of the tearful, but left my tear blood,

10. As if the fingers of Vizier Muhammad
Were slaughtered before my eyes, an accursed criminal,

11. Preventing him from employing an honest servant
Who is chaste of bribery and does not violate sanctities,

12. If he were one of those who plotted treachery
He would come to you riding a blond or ruddy horse,

13. And you would see him in his house, and the house is
From his properties, extravagant and pretentious,

14. Like those you knew competing over
The wealth of estates, pampered and lavish,

15. Ask their families, did their fathers leave them
This wealth or did they find it accumulated?

16. And have mercy on the heedlessness of the governor who
Has become a ladder for the treacherous,

17. If the governor of Damascus had not been their partner
He would not have become like a silent beast.