1. Ibn Dukhan's son has no wish left with his Creator
That he hopes for and aspires to.

2. For if the damned one's patience opened up
It would make Egypt's people rich with their patience.

3. What he missed, may Allah curse him,
Is that fortunes didn't grow through his efforts.

4. The days will awaken after a year
Until he is called the father of loss in his heedlessness.

5. So drink over it and eat, oh son of the wicked one, for nothing
Will spare you soon from my words, early or late.

6. And know that the rhymes of poetry did not anger
Except the face of truth was blackened by its falsehood.

7. This is the introduction, the ending will come
With what you hated just as the beginning came.