1. They said Abu Hafs disparaged you, so I told them:
Abu Hafs' horn has grown long in his old age

2. As if he had met a prophet in his youth
Who blessed him with lifelong vigor from an early age

3. He has lived so long with a youthful vigour we know
To the extent he married a virgin bride in his old age

4. No maiden freely weds an old man
In the feeblest half of his life's span

5. I say, now that his horns have grown so high and bald
Poor soul got nothing in return for his lost hair