1. You came to reproach and curse me, that I have wronged you,
And she for whom I strive and toil,

2. I spend the night as if her returning were a blanket spread beneath me,
In fear of it my bed is tossed and turned.

3. I swore I left you in no doubt,
And beyond God man has no refuge.

4. If you were told I betrayed you,
Then he who informed against me is most deceitful and mendacious.

5. But I was a man who had a side,
On earth where he had a place of retreat and refuge.

6. Kings and brothers when I come to them,
I arbitrate regarding their wealth and draw them near.

7. As you did for a people whom I saw you befriended,
Yet when it came to thanking you for that, they did no wrong.

8. So do not threaten me as if I
Am with it carping at people like an old blind camel.

9. Do you not see that God has given you a surah,
You find every king beside it wavering?

10. For you are a sun, and the kings are planets,
When you rise, no star can be seen from among them.

11. You are not racing a brother you should blame,
For dishevelment - which of the refined men is?

12. If I am wronged, then you have wronged a slave,
And if you are owed an apology, then one like you can be apologized to.