1. I have not seen the flask like the flask of Kiskak
When its oil drips, it has no clarity, but it has clarity when it diffuses.
١. وَلَمْ أَرَ كالكسكاكِ إذْ راقَ دُهُنُهُ
وَلاحَ لهُ نَشْرٌ وَفَاحَ لَهُ نَشْرُ
2. The cook was not just in it, yet his injustice
Is justice, so understand what the poetry implies.
٢. وما عَدَلَ الطَّبَّاخُ فيهِ وَجَوْرُهُ
هَوَ العَدْلُ فَافهَمْ مَا تَضمَّنهُ الشِّعْرُ
3. Nine tenths of you, by your life, are flesh
And what is in you of virtue, by my life, is not even a tenth.
٣. وَتِسعَةُ أَعْشَارٍ لَعَمْرُكَ لَحْمةٌ
وَمَا فِيهِ مِن بُرٍّ لَعَمْرِى وَلا عُشْرُ