كَفَتني العِنايَةُ مِن ثابِتٍ

بِتَثميرِ ما كانَ مِن غَرسِهِ

Providence sufficed me from Thabit

By the fruits of what he had planted

وَكانَ الشَفيعَ إِلى غَيرِهِ

فَصارَ الشَفيعَ إِلى نَفسِهِ

And he had been an intercessor for another

So he became an intercessor for himself