إنindeed عبدَʿAbd (servant of) الرحمنal-Raḥmān (the All-Merciful) أَعنيI mean ابنَson of عَبْوَيʿAbway- (name continued)
إن عبدَ الرحمن أَعني ابنَ عَبْوَي
هِname-ending completing ʿAbwayh عفيفٌchaste يجوزُgoes beyond حَدَّthe limit of العفافِchastity
هِ عفيفٌ يجوزُ حَدَّ العفافِ
Indeed, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—I mean Ibn ʿAbwayh—
is chaste beyond the bounds of chastity.
ليسis not ذاthis منfrom تُقىًpiety يبينُis evident ولكنbut
ليس ذا من تُقىً يبينُ ولكن
كسرتْهُhas broken him غضاضةُthe disgrace of الأسلافthe forebears
كسرتْهُ غضاضةُ الأسلاف
This springs from no evident piety, but
the disgrace of his forebears has broken him.
قبضَwithdrew الدهرُTime عنهfrom him أَيديَthe hands of قومٍpeople
قبضَ الدهرُ عنه أَيديَ قومٍ
طالماso often قدindeed بُسطنَwere outstretched بالألطافwith favors
طالما قد بُسطنَ بالألطاف
Time withdrew from him the hands of people
so often outstretched with favors.
ولقدand indeed كانhe was ماas far as عملتُI did (likely a transposition of ‘I knew,’ used in the translation) ظريفاًa man of wit
ولقد كان ما عملتُ ظريفاً
باذلاًoffering freely ماwhat وراءَهbehind him للظرافto men of wit
باذلاً ما وراءَه للظراف
And indeed he was, as I knew him, a man of wit,
freely offering what lay behind him to men of wit.
Sol 6.1