1. Say to the guardian of the aspired state,
The one feared for his generosity and valor,

2. You have won the people of merit, so they told
Stories of your victory next to Abbas.

3. Especially this literate one who
Came with poetry of various genres,

4. The eloquent one splitting with his praise,
Satire, and wounding remarks,

5. I have not seen before my standing upon
What he said youthfully with paper,

6. And a palm tree thanking your rain
From its roots, branches, and head,

7. Towering without Egypt in sight
While it surrounds the path of crossers,

8. And the chessboard piece then ended
And I was not forgetful of merit among people

9. An inhabited station likened
To meadows in it with horses

10. So tell us who is this literate one
Who increased my love and obsession

11. If he is like me a Maghrebi then what
Is wrong with the company of different kinds

12. And the likes of me are to him today like
The boulder next to the steady mountain

13. And between our two homes is like between us
And where is Marrakesh from Fez

14. And if he doubts my origin I came to him
With my woolen jubba and sandals

15. And if he finds fault in my language
I’ll be silent for poverty contested my eloquence