1. O minister, whom God has bestowed His shade
When He raised you to the highest position

2. You have a face that surpasses the crescent moon, and a palm
That makes the rain ashamed with its wetness when it begins

3. A comfort that if drought destroyed
It would still be a comfort, and to the kisser, his kiss

4. Goodness in people was ambiguous
But you made its paths clear with your virtues

5. So you reminded us of Hatim's meaning through yourself
And we forgot the days of Kisra and his justice

6. And I will end to you a wondrous matter
So listen to my story, I asked you in God's name

7. I have been late getting wheat
A lover seeking every storehouse with its harvest

8. If I heard the measurer singing the memory
Of a harvest, its harvest stirred feelings in my heart

9. And my sieve, if it raised dust
Dust that if I was lined with its kohl

10. The heart of the mill melted in longing, and for the jug
It has a tear that has shed a thousand times

11. And I saw the children, from lack of bread
Suffering, even if on a loaf of bread

12. One complains, and you it calls, this one
Resents me, and it is gentle

13. So you see me fallen, and my billy goat calls me
Get up and hurry, for there is no time in sound

14. And you are the mate of prosperity, have you lived or are you
A wise one, as they say in his connection

15. You do not show us a loaf except the loaf of the sun
On the horizon that appears and the hut of the family

16. If Antar of war were asked by one like me
For flour, he would flee from carrying his load