كم مدحة قد أجدتها غزلاً

وقصة المدح بعد لم تقصص

How many poems of praise I have rendered as romance

Yet the story of praise was left untold

لولا الإمام التقي ما مدحت

ولم يكن لي ولا لها مخلص

Had it not been for the pious Imam I would not have praised

And neither I nor she would have found salvation