1. I sleep, though faultfinders blame me,
For sleeping and not greeting them.

2. How strange of the criticizer
To blame one asleep and blameless!

3. My inner secrets have rebelled
Against obeying the critic.

4. Good fortune made them happy
With plentiful ever-flowing tears.

5. Have you not seen that I complained
Of fire to the arsonist?

6. I complained to separation
Of the wrong of its endless estrangement.

7. I wished: if only I could return
To my unjust criticizer!

8. How many resolves have become,
For the resolver, sheer calamity!

9. But if the meeting with my father
Al-Qasim does not avail,

10. A meeting which for the desperate one
Is water, and for the criticizer, wrath.

11. He receives his visitors with a smile,
A guarantee for their hopes.

12. And so their debts are settled
By him without a judge.

13. None can carry adversities
Like the hand of the decisive one!

14. When it is hung with the sword
From the scabbard erect on the belt.

15. With it unsheathed, debts are settled
By Shibl without a judge.