1. Oh, what is with my lady, what ails her?
She has become submissive, so I shall bear her submissiveness

2. Or else why did she become jealous and what
Did I gain, may God water the ruins of her abode

3. Behold, a slave girl of the imam
In whom love has settled and wrapped her in its cloak

4. She walked between short-statured maids
Her wrists competing in a walking match

5. God has wearied my soul with her
And wearied me with blaming her coquetry

6. As if in my eyes wherever
I tread on earth is her statue

7. The caliphate came to him in submission
Dragging its train behind

8. And it was not fit for any but him
Nor was he fit for any but it

9. Had anyone else coveted it
The earth would have shaken with tremors

10. Had the hearts' daughters not obeyed him
God would not have accepted their deeds

11. The caliph is above some
Who hate whoever says this of him