1. My God, save me from your wicked minister
From the gnawing rat and the scratching weasel

2. For I have seen both traitors
Wreaking havoc on reputations by biting and scratching

3. And I have a might after patience runs out
And the coiling of the snake portends a bite

4. I see the son of Othman's son loving his boy
When he spends the night, his litter shakes

5. The chess brother spends the night patient as a boil
And turns at the impact of the piercer's scratching

6. As for the Basran's hand in every page
I stop at every curve and draw at every feather

7. He takes the food as if he were
The trustee of an orphan or a pilferer digging graves

8. I will inscribe a clear line on his forehead
That he has glass horns without engraving

9. I forgot, dismiss me for I am heedless
And he has a status greater than the Guard

10. Shall I threaten him with poetry and he is unleashed
Upon mankind, jinn, birds and beasts

11. Did I not see him, if he wished, swallow Tihama
And its mountains collapsed there without compensation

12. Save me from those gluttons, they are
Chewing wax and the dung beetle, oh Lord of the Throne

13. He raids the minister's money and family
So he sulks in their loaf of bread quite the sulk

14. Moreover he complains to every lord
Of molars that come upon bull and ram

15. He reports about them that they have caries
And that is more painful and definite to scrape

16. Do you not know that when the grinders are tapped
And scratched, they come upon the firm and weak

17. So do not accept that separation and beware
Of similarities even if laid out on a bier

18. He is the one who grinds discord in every case
Of fate and bounces from it to foolishness

19. He has holes in his pants aplenty
To holes that precede the opening by rending

20. And I have gotten from the Uthaymi’s honor enough
So do not be fearful of exposing his shame

21. Although I have given him nicknames and he is innocent
I have not quenched him until I recoiled like a ram

22. Leave his mention, may God hallow his mention
And you are not of the ilk of load and litter