1. Shall I not complain to you, shall I complain
So listen when you expand me to listen

2. Contemplate my page, for if I
Complain, I reveal my face without a mask

3. And I have decided to spend the nights
With troubles longer than them trading

4. And that is a skill that excelled and so
It hits us, I called it beasts

5. A young man whose ambition commanded him and so he became
Obedient, then with it he became obeyed

6. And the young man comes near after elevation
His manners so he increases in elevation

7. And how many attackers from the doubt of fate
I advised so he thought me deceitful

8. And I said to him, expose yourself to high places
The day after fear, and avoid the pit

9. He disobeyed so he fell, and I said to him, believe me
Advice has exceeded its place so is lost

10. Abu Al-Faraj, make me some of those whom you
Have directed care and craft to

11. I almost remain in the corners of my house
And my mention fills the world heard