1. The creation of witnesses and workers
Is like the creation of lovers and tormentors

2. Every just person frustrated in attainment
Is like a lover frustrated in union

3. I do not know the meaning of hatred
Between the two groups except love of money

4. So if greed disappears from them
Disagreement between them heralds dissolution

5. The servants bid me farewell and they
Had prepared their weapons for my murder

6. Some eulogized others and it has become clear to you now
The severity of the horrors

7. And the son of Al-Ashal saw that there remained
A writer like his grandfather in the north

8. So he turned to chastity, he who was once
Oblivious to chastity

9. And they have eyes that overlook the eye
And hands outstretched when shackled

10. By your father Hazm who distinguished
The riffraff among them from the righteous

11. Do not make their hearts accustomed to affection
It is from your whip in confusion

12. The sword and tongue are not equal in sharpness
Can reality equal the absurd?

13. My words are joking while your deeds determination
Like the throwing of pebbles and the shooting of arrows

14. And my craving and passion for hitting
In the sand to obtain the happiest of forms

15. So I praised the path when it bore witness for me
When I saw it concluding well

16. And the meeting tomorrow guarantees me
Attaining my hopes and aspirations from you

17. Honor has sprouted in me from you in the home of my soul
And wealth from your hands in the home of my money

18. And if you are a supporter of me in what
I hope for, that is the essence of my request