1. O Abu Qasim, you have remained just in dispensing virtue,
With the scale of justice, you aid the truth for those who aided it.

2. Your ink is fine musk, goodly scent and sight,
Else the blackness of heart, emptiness, and blindness of vision.

3. We knew him as eloquent in every branch of knowledge,
Yet how brief in respecting the sanctity of affection!

4. I think you chose him from the night of union with us,
And that night is known for being short.

5. We wanted you to excuse what you are apt to excuse,
And the like of you is not blamed or limited.