1. Reconsider the story that does not veil
Nothing is concealed from it or obscured

2. Your view does not come from deviation or passion
And your matter is God's matter, nothing deviates it

3. By my life, the numbers of my enviers have multiplied
A child envies his father for his generosity to him

4. And you granted me favors which changed my brother
So his heart has become inflamed against me

5. And I have come to not fear my enemy as I fear
My friend, nor the one I was closest and most intimate with

6. According to what a young man is given, so is he envied
And most pleased with him are angry and indignant

7. So wonder at me and at them, though indeed
For the likes of this, the astonished is astonished

8. Yesterday I was praised among them for my righteousness
And virtue was attributed to me and lineage assigned

9. But when your blessings shaded me with their clouds
And I began to revel in your bounties

10. False speech multiplied from them
And the snares of scheming were set up

11. I have no fault to them except your blessings
And I am not at fault for the favors that came from you

12. Yet I could, if I wished, clarify their excuse
For everything has causes that cause it

13. You have named me among the noble through your blessings
So I have disturbed them and contended with people I used to avoid

14. So I have no choice but to have estrangement in their hearts
Which will stay with them a little, then depart

15. To God and the rightly-guided King I complain
Of the tribulations of time which tosses and turns

16. And I do not complain except an incapable one
Pounces upon the Capable, for whom pouncing is easy

17. He is jealous of my honor so I have become abased
And he has reviled me though there is no cause

18. And he has sent against me a loose tongue
Confidently, thinking I will not respond

19. Had he been ignorant I would have excused him
But how, when the man is aged and experienced?

20. And suppose I do not seek refuge in answering him
And I incline towards the path of misguidance

21. Do I not have sanctity with the rightly-guided King
That would restrain the hands of enemies from me?

22. And suppose I have deviated from the King's path
While generosity is nearer to me

23. Do you not know that the King judges for his adversary
Against himself with justice, no right is lost?

24. And whoever executes judgment with justice for people
Against himself has become to be hoped for and feared

25. I have raised my hand from complaining about a just ruling
For he sees the right of the virtuous as more deserving and obligatory

26. To a King who gives knowledge its rights
When the ignorant turn away from it and shun

27. I have entrusted him to the bosom of the Caliphate and the heights
Successors who raise them to glorious descent

28. An Imam whose justice has encompassed the land
So through him the nearest and furthest are equal

29. How often a passion for truth has disciplined him
To educate with ideas one who is not disciplined

30. So clothe me in the favors which are a liability upon me
Do not clothe me in them, they cannot be stripped

31. Your hands have taught me to seek the heights
So I have no desire except for the noble with you

32. And I have in you many abundant hopes
And none know, O God, but that I am steadfast in them

33. You have remained for us an impenetrable fortress
We flee the enemies to it and take refuge