1. When the tyrant is turned back by the august hands,
What does it avail him save to turn him back?

2. Fortune has shortened his tether and tied his ropes,
So his ambitious thoughts have clung to others disastrously.

3. Men were turned back, and the Prophet was their imam,
So that the vengeance of your Lord might smite them.

4. Leave him who insinuates corruption furtively;
Disregard him, for his insight has been blinded.

5. If the Merciful had cared for him,
His gaze would have been cut off from this creeping.

6. And the Prophetic Heir in his conditions
Resembles the Prophet in his way and his practice.

7. Return to your Lord, do not hope in any but Him;
His aid will surely take care of you.

8. And leave the envious one to his rage and stubbornness,
The whistling of his breath amidst the spread of corruption.

9. How many a bird sought the heights and was brought down
To the depths without intention by its soaring!

10. And how many a weak one, broken and sincere,
His abasement has cast into the ranks of honor!

11. And the servant in both matters is bound by destiny;
His appointed lot comes to him without effort.