1. I was not of those whom adversity
Has driven to seek refuge in you, nor of those tempted by trysts.

2. Rather it was ambition which debases
That brought me close while you kept your distance.

3. Do you detain me for no reason, while at times
You pay me slight heed, and yet you remain aloof?

4. You are not like the sons of Fazarah, so know
You were created unlike them, your father being different.

5. None can attain the heights reached by your parents,
Neither you nor others who come to their drinking places.

6. Had you contended with the House of Utarid
You would have been brought low by them, by their strength.

7. An inherited glory you'll never attain
Nor a noble house whose foundations you did not lay.

8. Are you not but a fox in their abode
To be shackled, hapless, or led on a tether?

9. I see Khalid strutting proudly like
A snarling lion or flaming meteor.

10. Rabia was never the peer of Darim
Nor did the sun of day rival their splendor.