1. O cousin of the Prophet, the call of an old man
Whose house is near ruin and destruction

2. He is like a woman in labor accustomed to hardship
So he became poor with no comfort or stability

3. If his difficulties can be solved by your hands one day
Then by your hands are his difficulties and ease

4. Or will you leave him to perdition, how can that be
While you live, will his ruin come to be

5. Can the poet of a people fear destruction
When their praises were the essence of his poetry

6. O inheritors of the Prophet whose wealth and land
Were solved by his hands

7. You possess all the land, so lend
Your old man what his home contains

8. As if he has passed away, leaving you
What you were stingy of, and his house is empty