1. With your wisdom proverbs in Egypt are coined
And your opinion in matters is most refined

2. You are unmatched in intellect in this age
And your star in the horizon of insight does shine

3. About you Ali has related with truth
A narration that hides the sun of knowledge with gloom

4. A narration that the lion related from you as told
And the narrator agreed, which was strange and assumed

5. It was not my thought about your nobleness that I
Could be compared to one lost in ignorance and folly

6. Oh if only it was simple ignorance he possessed
But alas it’s grave ignorance and complexity

7. Why is it when you’ve tested me more than once
I see from you what decrees my demotion is done

8. Is it because of some people you have punished me with
A draught of death from you to me is appealing

9. Your justice is perfect and harming no soul
And from hurting people you always abstain