ما دام راشد لا يدوم غرورُ

هذا وزير عادلٌ وغيورُ

As long as Rashid does not last arrogance

This is a just and zealous minister

وهو الذي سيف الإمام وسيفه

سيان كلٌّ منهما منصور

And he is the one who is the Imam's sword and his sword

Both are victorious

أخلاقه مثل الرياض وإنما

أخلاق بعض الخادميه قبور

His morals are like gardens while

The morals of some servants are graves

أفجنةٌ محفوفةٌ بمكارهٍ

هذا الوزير العالم النحرير

Pits full of ugliness

This minister, the learned freethinker

يا من تحج لبابه إبل الرجا

وحمولها المنظوم والمنثور

O you who perform Hajj to his door, the she-camels of men

And their burdens of prose and verse

ومفهِّم العرب الذي تسلطوا

في السلط أن الدائرات تدور

And the one who made the Arabs understand, who tyrannized

In power, that circles revolve

بعوامل فيها الممات لعاملٍ

طاغٍ وفيها للعفاة الخِير

With factors in which there is death for an

Oppressor agent, and in it there is good for the weak

ما حام يطلب ضيرها متغطرس

إلا وحام على حماه الضير

No arrogant person sought its harm

Unless the harm sought his protector

ياقوت عدلك لا نوالك نبتغي

فالمال في عين القنوع حقير

The ruby of your justice, not your wealth, we seek

For money in the eyes of the content is insignificant

إن المميز حين فتح عينه

لسعيد وهو من الغرام ضرير

When the distinguished one opened his eye

To Saeed, and he is blind from passion

جعل الوقاحة دأبه ليزيلني

عن مركزي ومساعدوه كثير

He made insolence his habit to remove me

From my position and his assistants are many

وغدا يداعيني بحكٍّ كائنٍ

من كل ذي قلمٍ عليه يغير

And he began to sue me with an existing rule

From everyone with a pen that changes him

فاسمع فدتك النفس قولة صادقٍ

ما جال قط بباله التزوير

So listen to the soul's statement, may you be ransomed

He has never thought of forgery

إن التساويد التي أصلحتها

كانت تُحَكُّ بأمره وتمور

The forms I corrected

Were ruled by his order and bend

فمن الذي يحلو لديك قصاصه

الآمر الجاني أم المأمور

So who is it nice for you to penalize

The commander, the perpetrator, or the ordered?

ودفاتر الكتاب أكثرها بها ال

تصحيح والتصليح والتنقير

And most of the books of the writers in them

Correction, repair and investigation

أفلا يكون الذنب ذنباً واحدٌ

أم ذنب كل مخنث مغفور

Isn't the sin one sin

Or the sin of every effeminate forgiven?

تعديل جلق كان بين فطاحل

لم يخف حقٌّ بينهم أو زور

The correction of a boil that was between jurists

No right or falsehood was hidden between them

لو شاء يسألهم وليُّ أمورهم

لتكشفت بعد الأمور أمور

If the guardian of their affairs wanted, he would ask them

Matters would be revealed after matters

ومن العجائب أن يصدَّق واحدٌ

في قوله ويكذَّب الجمهور

And of the wonders is that one believes

In his words and the majority belies