1. I wonder at Harun the Imam, what is it that he loves and hopes for in you, O character of meanness?
With a nape behind a face that is prolonged as if it were the nape of an angel who alleviates worries with generosity.

2. I see Ja'far growing more miserly and stingy,
whenever the Merciful increases him in ample sustenance.

3. And if it were not for Ja'far's miserliness, people would not consider him except a fool.