1. How is the prisoner who lacks no food, yet is tortured by confinement?
A dog roaming free between houses is better off

2. Than a lion in chains.
Who will intercede for me with the Caliph?

3. I was neither disobedient nor mutinous.
The thief who stole a sheep, my family's livelihood,

4. Was put to death by the executioner's blade.
They considered it an assault against me, but

5. He met severe punishment and retribution.