شَرِب البيهقيُّ والبينُ ناءٍ

من يَدَيْ واحدِ الأنام ثلاثا

The ignorant drank with joy

From the hand of the best of mankind, thrice

من شراب يفوق كل شرابٍ

ويدٍ لم تزل حَياً وغِياثا

Of a drink superior to any drink

And a hand that has always been alive and giving

ثم وَلَّى مُتوَّجاً تاجَ فخرٍ

سوف يبقى لعَقْبهِ ميراثا

Then he turned away, crowned with the crown of glory

His footsteps will remain an inheritance

لو درى البينُ بالذي غاب عنهُ

ملأ البينُ ثوبَهُ أحداثا

If the ignorant only knew what was hidden from him

He would have filled his garment with events

حَسَداً أو سَقَتهُ أيدي المنايا

من حِمامِ الردى كؤوساً حِثاثا

Whether from envy or the hands of death made him drink

From the wine of depravity, cups of sediment

قُبِّح البينُ إنه غَيرَ شكٍّ

شرُّ من أودع الذكورُ الإناثا

Cursed is the ignorant, he changed without a doubt

Evil is he in whom males were made females

قد مَللنا بشاعةَ الوجهِ منهُ

وأحاديثَه الغِثاثَ الرِّثاثا

We are tired of his unpleasant face

And his worthless prattle and drivel

يحضرُ البينُ لا شَهِيَّ المُلاقا

ةِ وإن غابَ غاب لا مُستراثا

The ignorant attends with no joy of company

And if absent, he is absent without missed inheritance

وأما والأمير لولا حبالٌ

نالها منه لم تكن أنكاثا

And as for the Prince, were it not for ties

That he has with him, he would not be so lenient

لسَقَتْهُ عدواتي جُرَعَ الموْ

تِ ولاجْتثّهُ الهجاءُ اجتثاثا

My enemies would have made him drink the cup of death

And vilification would have uprooted him entirely

كان أشقى الأنامِ فانبعث الحَا

ئنُ يا شُؤمَهُ عليه انبعاثا

He would have been the most wretched of people, so the wailer cried

Oh, his misfortune upon him is a renewed outcry

هو تيسٌ ولا تزالُ ترى التي

سَ شقيّاً عن المُدى بَحَّاثا

He is a billy-goat and you still see the billy-goat

Wretchedly bleating endlessly

رجلٌ يحمل القرونَ ويمشي

لا ترى عندَهُ لذاك اكتراثا

A man who bears grudges and walks about

Not caring for that in the slightest

قيل لي إنَّ جارَه ابنَ أبي العقْـ

ـلينِ أضحى لأرضه حَرَّاثا

I was told his neighbor Ibn Abi’l-‘Aqleem

Has become, for his land, a digger and plowman

رجلٌ تُوحشُ المجالسُ منه

وإذا مات أوحشَ الأجداثا

A man whose presence makes gatherings desolate

And when he dies, he desolates the graves