1. Who is there that would not respond when called
To join in pleasant, joyful conversation

2. With the professor Abdelkader al-Sahrawi
The composer, the literary man of refinement

3. But you have called for gentleness, so let
Me be gentle and accept my observation and excuse

4. For the delight and the pleasure of Shawwal with
One who sits, not a month of fasting that hurts

5. It was not my intention that you extend an invitation
To one who was deserving of it, sir listening

6. So for that reason I came repeating a verse anxiously
Fearing confusion that he might repeat with me

7. I descended to you from the most noble abode
Dignity, pride and aloofness

8. This and the last utterance to you all with
Six lines, they are for me the intercessor, so intercede