1. I convey to you from my conscience a message
Of affection, I do not want any reward from you for it

2. And if you hear it in private it is a lament
And if you hear it publicly then listen with gratitude

3. They say that patience is a profitable trade
So I said but I have lost my lifetime in it

4. And another thing from me which is an impure lie
To every prophet, and it is what poetry has been taught

5. So and so stood in public with a poem
With it he sat down when he went on declaiming it as a poem

6. And say accept it even if she went
To the sanctuary the Tayy did not allow it to be recited

7. And among the people are those whose poems are like jinn
Who take residence in the blackened graves

8. So say if you say I have come from the land of Babylon
You spoke the truth but you were not taught magic in it

9. I say to Baghdad when I advise them
I advise you O Baghdad do not insult Egypt

10. People see in Baghdad a sign for magic
And in Egypt its Moses and its greatest sign

11. Leave the two angels brought down as punishment
For the Kalim (Friend) of God inherited it pride