1. O Abu Hasan, man is fashioned into a form

    revealing what his inborn traits have lodged within him.

  2. If you cannot be looked to for an immediate boon,

    though your writ runs from east to west,

  3. and if, on the Day of Gathering, you are no accepted intercessor for us,

    then the judgment of one who looks to you for help is feeble.

  4. Ali ibn Isa—the better of your two days is when you are seen

    with your bounty hoped for and your promise fulfilled.

  5. Yet after this, I truly fear that you may be seen

    with a barrier standing between you and what you desire.

Sol 5.6