إنّي لغَيرِ صنيعةٍ لشكورُ

كلا وإن سَواءك المغرورُ

Indeed I do not complain of the doing of one who is ungrateful

Indeed, I am grateful even without a favor shown,

No, though your equal treatment of me were delusive

Nay, while anyone other than you is deceived.

ما لي أراني منكَ تحتَ سحابَةٍ

ظمآن أستسقي وأنتَ مَطيرُ

Why do I see myself in your presence like one suffering from thirst

Why do I find myself standing beneath your cloud,

Beneath a rain-cloud, seeking to drink, while you are a pourer of rain?

Thirsty, begging for a drink, while you pour down rain?

أنتَ الأميرُ وغيرُكُ المأمورُ

وعظيمُ شغلٍ في جداكَ يسيرُ

You are the prince, the others are your deputies

You are the Prince, and all others are the commanded,

And mighty affairs in your striving are a little thing

And the greatest trouble, in your bounty, is but slight.