1. We have seen wonders among wonders
Between Jumada and Jumada and Rajab

2. From a transgressor who exceeded his bounds
So sins gathered upon him and sin

3. An upstart advanced rank after rank
Yet was not worthy of those ranks

4. So he slipped from those high places a slip
And woke up wounded by that stumble

5. And so every rise in status
Is fresh after a rise in hardship

6. God granted him success yet he was ungrateful
And you never see gratitude for inherited fortune

7. So God unleashed his ignorance upon him
And it was the strongest cause of his ruin

8. An army approached that did not want his war
So he panicked, a panic that seizes the wary

9. And suspected a minister who had not betrayed
A pact, and does hidden gold ever tarnish?

10. He left no command that did not lead to his doom
Racing towards it, then falling into turmoil

11. He was like one who feared an impending blaze
So he added more wood to the fire

12. Imagine him cloaked in a piece of it
Engulfing him without even flames

13. Look at him and his leadership
For in it is a wonder of wonders

14. He frightened a child, though frightening him
Was not prudent, nor seizing the spoils

15. He angered the lords, an anger that drove him
To meet anger from God that was warranted

16. Then he saw his opinion did not succeed
So he released the child and spent the night anxious

17. Now he lives between fear and chaos
From what he did, or between fear and war

18. And so the ignorant man has never ceased
To toil and struggle due to his ignorance

19. He bought a long pillow for a short slumber
And bought long tranquility for toil

20. I compared his claim to take the place of him
Who was entrusted with command to the Arabs’ claim

21. When I was told of his affliction
And that he was in gasps and hardship

22. Away with one who found himself in such a state
On high peaks at night, but in ravines by day

23. Of what use is a horse for him, deflated,
With neither escape nor advance

24. Nay, his cowardice bars its attack
While his shame bars him from flight

25. How ugly are blessings dressed in their garb
And how fine the blessings stripped from him

26. What he was given was not from his earning
But he lost it by what he acquired

27. O you who hide blessings, be sure
God is angry with it, total anger

28. And you will never see God as ally to one
Who opposed the father of falcons, the eminent vizier

29. And all who opposed the rightly guided one proceeding
Will find his affair in turmoil

30. And praise be to God, great in esteem
For what He has worn out, entrusted, and granted