1. Are these gifts of yours or merely loans,
A downpour and taking, or giving and donations?

2. If this or some of this is of your doing,
Then generosity has perished, its spirit of giving unsung.

3. The one who went astray was not Tameem amidst them,
Rather, your chest so plentiful and bounteous.

4. A king noblest of the clan of Talha, his pride
Suffices him a generous earth and heaven.

5. And the noblest of nobles, when tested by them
The lineages’ mettle, were best in fortune and misfortune.

6. Theirs are the spacious courtyard and abode which
Mourning women surround with their lamentation.

7. And protection in Hashim even for the enemies’ sake
That they have not with them except what they desired.

8. Related through lineage to the virtuous ladies
Who make fathers and uncles proud through him.

9. O Muhammad son of Ali, hear a plea
In it a cure for the sinner and the diseased.

10. When loyalty is mentioned, I see myself
Loyal amongst the noble company.

11. Slanders impose on me though being close,
While excuses are too narrow though being ample.

12. I shunned you when I shunned you in desolation,
Neither returning nor expressing could erase it.

13. You have shamed me with the glow of your hands which have blackened
What is between us, those fair hands.

14. And you cut me off with your generosity that I
Now fear lest we shall never meet.

15. A connection amongst people which has become estrangement,
Strange indeed, and righteousness gone while it was grace!

16. The caravan of successive poetry shall join you,
Watered by its beauty even the enemies.

17. Until eternal praise is perfected for you,
Forever, just as bounty was perfected for me.

18. So kings will envy you - the hunt is yours,
While poets envy me through you.