1. O Abū Ḥātim, your uncle once came after me—

    Ziyād—and found me a man wide awake.

  2. O Abū Ḥātim, even Ḥātim, in his day,

    was no more generous than you when great trials came.

  3. So, if I make amends to you today, will you let me be?

    And I have owned my fault, O son of the builder of pillars.

  4. Your father—there was none among mankind his equal

    whenever some crushing calamity befell the land.

  5. Noble lords, famed for forbearance and piety,

    and the land’s lions in the close-locked press of battle.

Sol 5.6