1. I have not seen anyone like me, who has no contemporary,
Nor anyone flashing like me, who has no equal.

2. If I had a fracture in the air, I would ride
To it on the back of a sturdy, strong-winged bird.

3. She was about to collapse on me when she saw
My wounds from one of the major disasters.

4. I said to her, "If you panic because of dangers,
Then you will never gain anything but dangers."

5. She craved the ripe fruits of abundance from me, though she
Has plenty at the watering places of the white-foreheaded camels.

6. By day he is awake with wicked vigilance,
And by night beneath the darkness he sleeps the sleep of the unbeliever.

7. Restrain yourself until you see the outcome
Of the dispersal of this transient event.

8. Beneath my resolve is a hill, like a cypress grove,
Made of prudence, Solomon-like in disasters.

9. When we lean upon it, our resources gush forth
From the springs of destiny.

10. You, son of wisdom, are a reviver from its stumbling
When we rise at dawn, stumbling.

11. Wealth has never dragged its train
Toward his house, like the backs of excellent horses.

12. When he craves the freshness of life, it spurns him
At the place where death's glimpse awaits the onlooker.

13. So ask him gently to interpret it -
A brother of the Shafi'ites, noble in origin.

14. For the Mu'tazilite of opinion, remote from guidance,
Lost in purpose, blinded of insight.

15. In every battle he calls for help
From the backs of the pulpits, not the backs of the horses.