1. شرحت مقالاً في الفرائض محكماً

    دقيق المعاني مضمراً أي اضمار

    I composed a precise article on inheritance

    Refined in meaning, profound in implications

  2. يتيه فؤاد الطب فيه تحيراً

    إذا خاضه ينآى على كل فسار

    The heart of the talented gets lost wandering in it

    Should one dive in, he escapes all comprehenders

  3. خدلجة كالشمس طاف خيالها

    علي بليل في حليّ واعطار

    Khadija shines like the sun, her imagination hovered

    Around me at night in beauty and perfume

  4. لها ثلث ثلثي ثلث ودّى وثلثه

    ومن ودها لي تسع قيراط معشار

    For her is a third, two thirds its third, and a third

    Of my love for her is nine carats and some

  5. فلو كان لي من ودها نصف سدسه

    وثلثاً سديسيه إذا طفت بالدار

    If I had half of a sixth of her love

    And two thirds of its sixth when she passes the house

  6. مررت بها يوماً فقامت وأقبلت

    تسائل عن ارث لها في تبختار

    I passed by her one day, she stood up and walked over

    Asking about an inheritance in Tubukhtar

  7. توفي أخو خال ابن عم ابن اختها

    وخلفها مع أربع يا ابن سيار

    The brother of the uncle of her cousin’s son died

    Leaving her and four others, Oh Ibn Sayyar

  8. بنات بني خال ابن عمة نجله

    وعمة عم ابن خال أخي الضار

    The daughters of the uncle of the son of the aunt’s son

    And aunt of the uncle of the son of the uncle, my enemy

  9. فحصة احدى الفردتين تسيعه

    وربع تسيعيه به قد قضى الباري

    So one of the two individuals gets one ninth of it

    And a quarter of its ninth which the Creator has ordained

  10. ونصف خميسي ثلث ما قد بقي إلى

    سديسي خميسيه لاحداهما جار

    And half of its fifth, a third of what remains

    To a sixth of its fifth for one of them comes

  11. كذلك للغيداء ثلث تسيعه

    وثلثاً سديسه إِلى الثلث ياقار

    Just like that, for the chubby one, a third of a ninth

    And a third of a sixth up to a third, Oh soft one

  12. ففسر لنا من مات أو من وراءه

    وكم ماله أجزا هديت إِلى السار

    Explain to us who passed away and who remains

    How much was his money? You have guided the poetic to the peak

  13. وتسع جميع الارث مع ثلث سدسه

    وسدس وثلث للثلاث فكن دار

    And nine sums the inheritance with its third of a sixth

    And a sixth and a third for the three so be a home