1. Listen to what I repeat and initiate
What happened to me was neither to Amr nor Zayd

2. The means have been cut off for me among my followers
And my country has come near, near my family and friend

3. And I have become wanted in the easiest way in it
The likes of me are claimed by the honored and glorious

4. And my blood pressed me to claim its debt
And swore either money or shedding what was shed

5. And from the evil of my planning and bitterness of my luck
I approached a fool who turns with hostility

6. So I greeted him while my heart was in agony
Boiling, and the Lord of the religion behind me like a lion

7. He smiled at me until his fang appeared
With which he deceived me when I said he was a friend

8. So I confessed to him reluctantly with what had afflicted me
And what my heart contained of grief and misery

9. But then that face changed for a while into another
Gloomy, and the gaze looking from afar

10. And we walked together when we entered the
Shop of nobles noisy like lions

11. And even if they didn't know what would happen
But they sensed some of what I had

12. So the dog turned away from me intentionally in front of them
And I thought dogs were faithful among people

13. And he left without answering me with a word
Other than his rejection of what ignorance commanded him

14. I forgot what had been loyalty because of my sorrow
For what happened was more painful for the slave

15. And nothing deceived me except that I knew him
A friend of my eminent brother and the unique scholar

16. So say to me of the wonders of our time
You see the opposite sometimes gathered with the opposite

17. An ignorant fool made me drink a cup of humiliation
With it I have lost sanity

18. And it wouldn't have harmed him if he had answered me
With a cheerful face with apology for my purpose

19. I would have excused him, he doesn't know nobleness and riches
And that is inherited from the father and grandfather

20. So the world narrowed on me and its expanse became
Like a tiny dot under my blackened eye

21. But if its rings are firmly clasped
Relief comes freely without intention

22. Oh how Allah disgraced the vile ones and whoever
Came to them even if the matter led to punishment