Sol 5.6

  1. Researching the sciences of religion, I spent a span

    of my life, until I mastered one of religion’s disciplines.

  2. How, then, could you consent to attacks upon me, yet fail

    to clear my name, knowing me as you do?

  3. When an iniquitous man comes bearing a report, what

    do you say to him? Tell me; that alone will suffice me.

  4. Nor is my purpose that you should know my freedom from blame

    and the purity of my nature; for my Lord vindicates me.

  5. My honor is inviolate, and my aspiration is

    lofty in rank, established when I first was formed.

  6. My character has arrayed me in the robes of chivalry

    and, through grace, won faithfulness from the world of clay.

  7. Yet this is my reproach against you: that you see

    in your own house, among your companions, a practice that hurts me.

  8. O Joseph the Truthful, by God, give us your ruling:

    Is that the conduct of close kin and loving friends?

  9. Indeed, our love was for God, and it

    ever flows through Him to set the scales aright.

  10. Farewell to the world—for dead are those who remain true

    to preserving affection for the righteous, the people of faith.

Sol 5.6