1. الواعِظُ البَلخِيُّ كانَ قَرابَتي

    وَأَبو مُحَمَّدٍ المُنادي جاري

    The preacher al-Balkhi was my kinsman,

    and Abu Muhammad the crier was my neighbor;

  2. وَالزاهِدُ الملّاقُ مَن أَخبارُهُ

    ما قَد عَلِمتَ خَفِيَّةُ الأَسرارِ

    and the fawning ascetic, whose affairs

    are what you already know—secrets kept hidden.

  3. لَولا الحَياءُ وَطيبُ أَصلي وَالتُقى

    لَجَعَلتُها مَهتوكَةَ الأَستارِ

    Were it not for modesty, my noble lineage, and piety,

    I would have stripped their veils away.