1. قل للذي ما تأدَّبْ

    مع العلوم وأهلها

    Tell the one who has not shown proper manners

    toward learning and its people

  2. يصبر لحط البرايا

    عليه والنقرات

    to endure people's belittling

    of him, and their jabs.

  3. عاصي يزيد الشريعة

    يدعوه ثوراً ويصبغه

    A rebel increases the religious law [wording unclear];

    he calls him a bull and dyes him

  4. بالنيل والنهر الأسود

    ولو حكى ابن فرات

    with indigo—or the Nile—and the Black River,

    even if he emulates Ibn Furat.