1. I wrote to you, yet no reply came from you,
And you returned, sealed, to my letter.

2. My messenger came to you wretched and complaining,
Of the harshness of the veil and the doorkeeper's roughness.

3. It was as if you had written back apologizing,
Yet you wronged me with blame and reproach.

4. Return to fairness and know that it
Befits the reasonable and the wise.

5. O God's mercy, which in the morning
Had been over people under the whip of punishment.

6. By my father and mother, you are of a refuge
For the lost travelers and the thinness of the paper.