1. أَغنيتني من بعد فقري

    ورَفَعتَ بعد الخَفضِ قَدري

    You enriched me after my poverty,

    and raised my standing after abasement.

  2. وأَنلتَني منناص يَق

    لُّ لكُترِها حمدي وشُكري

    And granted me favors—too slight

    are my praise and thanks beside their abundance.

  3. أصبحتُ يا مولاي من

    نُعمَاك أسعَدَ أَهلِ عَصري

    I have become, my lord, through

    your bounty, the happiest of my contemporaries.

  4. وغفرتُ لما أن وصل

    تُ إلى جَنابك ذَنبَ دهري

    And I forgave, once I had come

    into your presence, the wrong my fate had done me.

  5. وأَرحتَني من حِرفَةٍ

    تُردى بصاحبها وتُزرى

    And you relieved me of a trade

    that ruins its practitioner and brings him disgrace,

  6. ما بين قومٍ كلما

    عايَنتُهم قد ضاقَ صدري

    among people—whenever

    I saw them, my chest grew tight.

  7. وكفاك أن كبيرَهُم

    ورئيسهم في السوق صِهري

    And it is enough for you that their chief

    and their leader in the market is my in-law:

  8. عَمٌّ يَعُرُّ أخاه وأب

    نَ أخيه لو كان المَعَرِّي

    an uncle who disgraces his brother and

    his brother's son, even if he were al-Maʿarrī.