1. Wisdom, judgment, and greying hair
Have stripped away the bloom of glorious youth,

2. And governance in a prosperous state
That had obstructed pleasures is now my barrier.

3. Now I neither wander nor travel,
In old age's submission and a lover's disgrace.

4. Ibn Shakla cried out for Iraq and its people,
So every well-knit coat of mail hastened to him.

5. If Ibrahim undertakes its affairs,
It will improve after him despite upheavals.

6. It will improve after that against tremors,
And will improve after him despite rebels.

7. How can this be when it is not to transpire:
An immoral man inherits the caliphate from an immoral man?