1. عُقولُكُم في كُلِّ حالٍ بَكِيَّةٌ

    وَلَكِن دُموعُ الباكِياتِ غِزارُ

    Your minds are meager in every circumstance,

    Yet the tears of the weeping women are abundant.

  2. يَعودُ فَنيدُ المُلكِ إِن عادَ جَدُّهُ

    مُعَدٌّ إِلَيكُم أَو أَبوهُ نِزارُ

    The sugar-candy of kingship will return if his grandfather returns—

    Ma'add—to you, or his father Nizar.

  3. وَما صَحَّ لِلمَرءِ المُحَصِّلِ أَنَّهُ

    بِكُفوانَ قَبرٌ لِلإِمامِ يُزارُ

    Nor is it established for the discerning man that

    In Kufwan there is a tomb of the Imam that is visited.

  4. أَخو الدينِ مَن عادى القَبيحَ وَأَصبَحَت

    لَهُ حُجرَةٌ مِن عِفَّةٍ وَإِزارُ

    A man of faith is he who opposes the vile, and comes to have

    An enclosure of chastity and a waist-wrap.