ما مِن مُصيبَةِ نَكبَةٍ أُمنَى بِها

إِلا تُعَظِّمُني وَتَرفَعُ شانِي

No misfortune or calamity wished upon me

Except to magnify and raise my status

وَتَزُولُ حينَ تَزولُ عَن مُتَخَمِّطٍ

تُخشَى بَوادِرُهُ عَلى الأَقرانِ

And disappear when it disappears from the wretched

Whose omens are feared by peers

إِنّي إِذا خَفِيَ اللِئامُ رَأَيتَني

كَالشَّمسِ لا تَخفى بِكُلِّ مَكانِ

When the wicked are hidden I appear

Like the sun not obscured in any place

إِنّي عَلى ما قَد تَرَونَ مُحَسَّدٌ

أنمي عَلى البَغضاءِ والشَنآنِ

However much you may see me envied

I grow despite the hatred and rancor

أَصبَحتُ لِلأَنصارِ فيما نابَهم

خَلَفاً وَلِلشُّعراءِ مِن حَسَّانِ

I have become for the supporters in what has afflicted them

A successor, and for the poets among the refined