1. I swear by Him whom you know
In all I decide or execute

2. If what the Legislator has forbidden were sold
The seller would suffer loss though he feigns to offer it

3. And if he follows the example of Joseph's brothers
That is a judgment we all know

4. We worshipped according to Muhammad's Law
And this much advice suffices

5. I do not prefer any community
Brought out to mankind in glorification or analogy

6. He by whose excellence time has been judged
Judgment of destiny satisfies him

7. You see him unique in his time in his state
In all he desires or decrees

8. I have followed for every proponent of a doctrine
That which cures him that is established with him

9. So when the discourse is to our Lord from our secret
I do not disclose what I hide of what I divulge

10. He who cannot appreciate what I have given him
In himself from me, I do not want him

11. He is ignorant of the realities who confuses their matter
And the learned man made happy is he who transcends him

12. I have made for every right a place
Which the person possessing it knows

13. The jewels of rhetoric arranged and rhymed
So he has sway over me by existing in it