أتَتْني أبا العباسِ أخبارُ وَقْعةٍ

مُنيتَ بها من صاحبٍ لك لم يُلمْ

News reached me, O Abu al-Abbas, of an event

In which you were afflicted by one who was once a friend of yours,

ولو كنتَ أشركتَ الأوِدَّاءَ لم تُصَبْ

بسوءٍ ولكن لم تدعْ أكلةَ النَّهِمْ

Had you but shared your food, you'd not have suffered harm,

But you did not spare the voracious eaters their fill.

فبُعداً وسُحقاً بالذي أنت أهلهُ

أكلتَ خبيثَ الزاد وحدكَ فاتَّخِمْ

So away with him for whom you scrimped,

You ate stale food alone and greedily crammed yourself.

كذاك انتقامُ الله من كُلِّ ظالمٍ

ظلمتَ صديقاً فابتُليتَ بمنتقِمْ

Thus does God take vengeance on every tyrant—

You wronged a friend and were afflicted with one who avenged him.

شهدتُ بها يوم استثابتْكَ بالعصا

بحُرِّيَّةٍ تأبى الهوانَ فتَنْتَقِمْ

I witnessed it the day your arrogance was requited

With blows by one disdaining humiliation who took revenge.

عفا الله عن ذَنْبَيْكَ عندي وعندها

فإنهما ذنبا بذيءٍ ومُغتلِمْ

May God forgive your sins toward me and toward her,

Though they were shameful transgressions and acts of betrayal.

ومن ساءني من بعدُ أو ساء حُرّةً

مقالاً وفعلاً نِكْتُهُ غيرَ مُحتشِمِ

If anyone after this wrongs or acts basely toward the noble lady,

In word or deed with shameful impropriety, I shall chastise him unsparingly.