1. Your book came belittling
Pearls or gems

2. So I read in it a letter
Mixed with molten sugar

3. You flowed in its midst
The river of abundant generosity

4. And you let flow between its lines
The rhythm of the crown of Caesar

5. And you hid in its words
Of every intoxicating meaning

6. So you see the Persian meanings
In the melodies of the lines

7. Like singers masked
Fearing the frightening intruder

8. A meaning more delicious than whispering
To the retreating enemy

9. Or than the reproach between
A beloved and an apologizing lover

10. Or a pause wasted by the gambler
At winning time

11. Or an assembly for wine during
A rainy day

12. Ninety verses whose sharpness
Transcends the fangs of Samhar

13. And Samhar's pen is
In the grip of a fierce lion

14. So the rhymes have ruled how
You have made me long in sorrow

15. Will I ever see you or will
The meeting be on Judgement Day

16. Never did I think you would live
O mean breaker

17. And indeed you were thrown into the abyss, evil is the end of the wicked
By God, if you were Plato of those eras

18. And Hippocrates became in the morning, at your door, like the destitute
And you surpassed Galen or

19. Luqman among the civilized
You would only be contemptible in manners

20. Among the congregation
May God forgive me, for I

21. Cleared him of his darkness and he came to us like the stupid
A face without face, a stature never exalted

22. And of wonders that the like of his tongue was not severed
How often he hugged leprosy and came up with abhorrent matters

23. So do to him, O Lord, as You did to
Nimrod, for he is confused by it

24. And send down wrath upon him if
He lives until evening without repenting

25. For he is the one who invented usury
And established pillars of immorality

26. And established the religion of worshipping
Money openly

27. And I wondered at his stinginess
And his miserly palm

28. He does not spend coins
Unless forced, without a choice

29. If it were possible for him
To live without pretension

30. He would have chosen to close
The two openings, and said "O pocket, beware!"