1. مالك موفور فما باله

    أكسبك التيه على المعدم

    Your wealth is abundant; why, then, has it

    made you haughty toward the penniless?

  2. ولم إذا جئت نهضنا وان

    جئتا تطاولت ولم تتمم

    And why, when you come, do we rise, yet if

    we come, you stretch up but never fully rise?

  3. وإن خرجنا لم تقل مثل ما

    نقول قدم طرفه قدم

    And if we leave, you do not say what

    we say: “Bring his steed forward—bring it forward!”

  4. إن كنت ذا علم فمن ذا الذي

    مثل الذي تعلم لم يعلم

    If you possess knowledge, who is there

    who has not learned the like of what you know?

  5. ولست في الغارب من دولة

    ونحن من دونك في المتسم

    Nor are you at the withers of power,

    with us beneath you down at the hoof.

  6. وقد ولينا وعزلنا كما

    أنت فلم نصغر ولم تعظم

    We too have held office and been dismissed, just as

    you have; we did not become lesser, nor did you become greater.

  7. تكافأت أحوالنا كلها

    فصل على الانصاف أو فاصرم

    Our circumstances have all been equal;

    so maintain our bond on fair terms—or sever it.