بلغ بني الحرص والآمال مبتدياً

بي ان نصحت وخير النصح ما نفعا

Convey to the sons of greed and hopes at the outset

That I advise you and the best advice is what benefits

أبقى ابن طه لكم في موته عظة

ملساء لن تقبل الأعذار والخدعا

Ibn Taha's son remains for you in his death a lesson

Smooth, he will not accept excuses and deceptions

قد كان طلاع انجاد أخا كلبٍ

على الحطام بأمر الفخر مضطلعا

He who rises like a star had a brother who was a dog

Preoccupied with wreckage by order of pride

درت حلوبة اقبال الزمان له

يزداد منها أوماً كلما كرعا

The sweetness of the turning of time smiled on him

Increasing from it misfortune whenever he drank

كان بعد ارتكاب الموبقات سوى

سارٍ أغد فجب الظهر فانقطعا

After committing atrocities he was nothing but

A walker in the morning, his back hunched in the evening

تاللَه لم آله نصح الرفيق به

وكنت أخشى عليه الأزلم الجزعا

By God, I did not neglect to advise the friend about him

And I feared for him intense grief

فسل مغانيه عنه إن مررت بها

بعد التي واللتيا ما الذي صنعا

So ask his singing girls about him if you pass by them

After this one and that one, what did they do?

لكن اللَه حكما لا مرد له

وان في جنب عفو الله ما وقعا

But God judges with no way to reverse it

And in God's forgiveness lies what has come to pass