أَلَم تَرَني وَالحَمدُ لِلَّه أَنَّني

بَرِئتُ وَداواني بِمَعروفِه بِشرُ

Did you not see me praising God that I

Recovered, and he cured me with his kindness?

رَعى ما رَعى مَروانُ مِنّيَ قَبلَهُ

فَصحَّت لَهُ مِنّي النَصيحَةُ وَالشُكرُ

Marwan tended me before him

So my advice and thanks to him were sincere

فَفي كُلِّ عامٍ عاشَهُ الدهرَ صالِحاً

عليَّ لِرَبِّ العالَمينَ له نَذرُ

Thus every year he lives virtuously

I make, for the Lord of the Worlds, a vow

إِذا ما أَبو مَروانَ خَلّي مَكانَهُ

فَلا تَهنأِ الدُنيا وَلا يُرسَلِ القَطرُ

When Abu Marwan leaves his place

The world will not be pleasant, nor rain fall

وَلا يَهنىء الناسَ الوِلادَةُ بينَهُم

وَلا يَبقَ فَوقَ الأَرضِ مِن أَهلِها شَفرُ

People will not rejoice in births among them

Nor on earth remain anything of value

فَلَيسَ البُحورُ بِالَّتي تُخبِرونَني

وَلَكِن أَبو مَروانَ بِشرٌ هُوَ البَحرُ

It's not the seas you tell me of

Rather, Abu Marwan is the ocean, a man he is the sea