1. Lost is Sa'eed though honored with command
And charged with that which was beyond his hand

2. So he turned from me when fortune smiled on him
And changed my state when his was fair and trim

3. And straitened was my right after its width
So I excused him for his narrow greed

4. Would that Abu Uthman had curbed his straying
As he curbed his grip on wealth and money-paying

5. And he estranges himself whenever I come visiting
As if I had shared in provisioning his family