لعمرك ما حابيتني إذ بعثتني

ولكنما عرضتني للمتالف

For your life, you never loved me when you sent me away

But rather you exposed me to blame

دعوت لها قومي فهابوا ركوبها

وكنت امرءا ركابة للمخاوف

My people were invited but feared embarking

And I was a man who mounted dangers

فأيقنت ان لم يدفع اللَه أنني

طعام سباع أو لطير عوائف

So I was sure that if God did not ward it off, I would be

Food for beasts or birds of prey

قرين عراك وهذا أيسر هالك

عليك وقد زملته بصحائف

A mate of strife, and this is the easiest ruin

For you, since you paired me with manuscripts

فإني وإن آثرت منه قرابة

لاعظم حظا في حباء الخلائف

So even if I preferred kinship with it

I have no great fortune in the love of successors

على عهد عثمان وفدنا وقبله

وكنا أولي مجد تليد وطارف

In the era of Uthman we came as envoys, and before him

And we were the first with inherited glory and loftiness