لَقَد رَكَزوا الأَرماحَ غَيرَ حَميدَةٍ

فَبُعداً لِخَيلٍ في الوَغى لَم تُطارِدِ

Alas, they thrust their spears with no good intent,

So cursed are horses in battle that do not chase.

تَداعَوا فَقالوا ناسِكٌ وَاِبنُ ناسِكٍ

وَما هُوَ إِلّا مارِدٌ وَاِبنُ مارِدِ

They conspired saying, an ascetic and son of an ascetic,

When he is but a rebel and son of a rebel.

وَمازالَ عَرّافُ الكَواكِبِ ذاكِراً

إِماماً كَنَجمٍ في الدُجُنَّةِ فارِدِ

The interpreter of stars kept mentioning,

An imam like a star in the gloomy darkness.

وَما يَجمَعُ الأَشتاتَ إِلّا مُهَذَّبٌ

مِنَ القَومِ يُحمى بارِداً فَوقَ بارِدِ

None can unite the dispersed except the refined one,

Among the people, kept aloof above the aloof.

إِذا نالَ ما يَرجوهُ مِن زُحَلَ الَّذي

بَدا شُرَّهُ لَم يَبغِهِ مِن عُطارِدِ

When he attains what he hopes from Saturn, whose

Evil appeared, he wants not from Mercury.

وَإِن يَكُ في الدُنِّيا سَعودٌ فَإِنَّما

تَكونُ قَليلاً كَالشَذوذِ الشَوارِدِ

If there is felicity in the world, it is only

Little, like the rarity of scattered remnants.

أَرى كَدراً عَمَّ المَوارِدَ كُلَّها

فَمُت أَو تَجَرَّع مِن خَبيثِ المَوارِدِ

I see murkiness has covered all the springs,

So die or drink from the foulest of springs.