1. O chatterer, O king of the vineyards
And prince of the nightingale

2. I have gained from you a temple
And been granted approach to the nightingale

3. David has been made accessible to me
Chanting beautifully

4. Above the beds and pulpits
A cat that does not prowl

5. It sways like a dinar in the palm
Of a conjurer in an instant of magic

6. And if it occurs to jesters
It leaves nothing for the actor

7. You have the openings of the separated
Syllables in the prose of the messenger

8. You have indeed taken from the morning
The yellow parts and the ornaments

9. And related in the white domes
About the chaste virgins of the temple

10. Oh, would that I know, o captive of passion,
Is your heart empty or filled?

11. And the companion of wakefulness or do you
Sleep until the night passes?

12. In spite of me, why do you shut
Yourself in sealed brass?

13. My desire for you is love, and who
Keeps something precious is stingy

14. And need causes stinginess
In the generous giver

15. If I made you a cage of silk
Encrusted with pearls

16. And wrapped it in lilies
And lined it with carnations

17. And burned the finest incense around it
And the most expensive oils

18. And carried it above fountains
And above the top of brooks

19. And called all the proudest
Of the kings of birds adorned

20. They would come to you amid those who flatter
And praise and pamper

21. And you would command my son, so you both
Would meet face to smiling face

22. In his right hand a ring-necked dove
That has not been given to the trusting

23. And a silver bottle
Filled with chains

24. I would not consider you, O chatterer,
Among the noble and preferred

25. The witness of life is tainted
With misery like ink

26. And if fate were organized
It would not be carried

27. O bird, if they did not say it was madness
I would say, be reasonable

28. Listen, for perhaps one who details to you
Does not benefit you like one who summarizes

29. Be patient with what troubles you
Or do what seems good, so do

30. You are the son of an opinion, in you
That does not change

31. Forever fearful of harm, threatened by death
If you flew from my wings, you would fall

32. Upon the ignorant vultures
O bird, examples are struck

33. For the intelligent the examples
Your world, of its customs

34. Not to be for the powerless
Or the foolish, though he declaims

35. In the coming future
It was made for a free man, who is tested

36. In the life and tests
He throws and is thrown in the struggle

37. Of life without heedlessness
Assembling himself like a lion, if

38. He is ignorant, he is ignorant
Have you heard of the two arbiters in Islam

39. The day of Jandal?
In the great strife, and if not for

40. Wisdom, it would not have ignited
The companions were pleased that day

41. With the revealed book
And they are the pure lamps

42. About the sent prophet
They said the book, and each

43. Interpreter and supporter stood up
Until, when Mu‘awiyah grew powerful

44. And Ali found him constricting
They turned to an injustice that took root

45. In souls like dispositions
They descended to rule by the strong

46. And the opinion of the cunning
Chatterer, is it true what I say

47. Did you understand or not understand?
You dwelled by the clearest meadow

48. And settled the most honorable abode
Between the nobility of Hussein

49. And the care of Ali
And the tenderness of Amina your mother

50. In your first youth
Awaken in the morning and give good news

51. To the children of the future
And ask for Egypt God's care

52. Which comes down from above
Say "Our Lord, open a mercy

53. And the good is from You, so send it."
Realize your noble nature, our Lord, and accept

54. My poem.