1. Forget standing at the ruins and blaming
And mentioning your absent neighbors with reproach

2. And praise a young man whose share of abundant wealth
Is like the share of one who sees his beautiful face

3. As people see his virtues one day
That they do not see in the mirror over time

4. So too is their share of his money and wealth
More constricted as he does not see in that any fraud

5. He does not buy praise but Allah gives gracefully
No praise to the buyer in generosity for a price

6. Of one who sees he did not give his beggar
Except when he exempted him from provision

7. And does not see his favor as a favor upon anyone
Until he shoulders instead the burdens of obligations

8. From that he became fair of mention, inseparable
Is praise of him, attachment of soul to body

9. O son of Musayyab, take it as a poem I shortened
And the misery of fate and discernment prolonged in it

10. It has elegant virtues in hearing
That invite the envious to listen and ear