1. I asked you, O servant of Allah, to explain a perplexity
And you are an observatory for solving perplexities
١. سألْتُكَ عبدَ اللهِ إيضاحَ مُشْكِلٍ
وأنتَ لكَشْفِ المُعْضِلاتِ بمَرْصَدِ
2. They said candied ginger is a mine of silver
Yet how come it never produced a fragment of silver
٢. زَقَنْدَرُ قالوا عنه معْدِنُ فِضّةٍ
فَما بالُهُ أبْداكَ نُدْرَةَ عسْجَدِ