1. I inclined to literature before I was weaned,
And I was preoccupied with it until I attained my wish.

2. How many unique poems I composed in witticism,
Occurring to my thoughts while awake and asleep.

3. And how many eulogies I innovated in praise,
With the most eloquent diction and coherence of speech.

4. I never had the habit of satirizing,
Nor did my resolve discuss contention.

5. Yet an obtuse minded person exposed himself
To this affliction out of ignorance of my stature.

6. He denied me while merit recognizes my prominence,
My passion for knowledge suffices as a witness.

7. And he thought I was ignorant in writing
While my star in prose is like the full moon.

8. For if he were to become an observer of composition,
Composition has bequeathed all my industry.

9. He knows not what flows from me nor what comes to him,
Ask any boy about him, what lad!

10. He is none other than confused,
His efforts are for evil, to obtain food.

11. And he boldly commits abhorrent deeds in daylight
Or under the cover of darkness.

12. He becomes tyrannical when he becomes self-sufficient, and how much graft
He wasted without allowing a greeting of peace.

13. And when he transgressed on Saturday, his punishment was transfiguration,
Upon transfiguration after the crumbling of his bones.

14. And he exceeded in harming people so his matter concluded
With his expulsion in the first year.

15. He spared no face like the generous for he
Is despicable, disgraced, from the progeny of scoundrels.

16. And when he was fired, he would send his tears
Down his cheeks like drops of rainclouds.

17. This weeping was not from remorse
Over a departed bounty or illicit consumption.

18. Rather for the distance and isolation from harm
And prevention of benevolence and breach of reins.

19. We felt relieved from him for a day and night,
And we said, "May God quench him with the cup of oblivion."

20. But he returned spitefully and cunningly
And unleashed every sword for injury.

21. He swore to never desist from consuming illegitimate gain
Even if his limbs were torn by arrows.

22. That he would never see in his household, while affluent,
Anything but a starving one among his dependents and guest.

23. That he would never pray, ever, while pure
Nor fulfill the duty of fasting on his behalf.

24. That he would only make pilgrimage if bribed
With an orphan's money or an imam's endowment.

25. Did he not fear the Day of Faith if he was holding
By his claim, the reins of his world?

26. So away with him, what a criminal whose life was lost
Futilely, and did not work for a good end.