1. O Talha, you were
Of the best of the best

2. You saw the truth of your paternal cousins
As a matter other than negligence

3. And you were constantly preoccupied
With flipping dinars

4. So you have turned
To selling flasks

5. Thus is the fate of the world
Changing upon people with change

6. So sell me a cage from you
For a thousand undiminished

7. Thirty and sixty
And ten without reduction

8. Take them like lanterns
In the hands of revellers

9. Two chrysolites
And from ruby of Hazzour

10. It lights up the house and the homes
And the depths of graves

11. And blessed is the eye of the onlooker
In the darkness of night

12. O Talha, you fell short
And I am not pleased with falling short

13. I love the easy attainer
And make easy every one in difficulty

14. So exert yourself or weigh yourself
For the yoke is known by the ox