سألْتُكَ عبدَ اللهِ إيضاحَ مُشْكِلٍ

وأنتَ لكَشْفِ المُعْضِلاتِ بمَرْصَدِ

I asked you, O servant of Allah, to explain a perplexity

And you are an observatory for solving perplexities

زَقَنْدَرُ قالوا عنه معْدِنُ فِضّةٍ

فَما بالُهُ أبْداكَ نُدْرَةَ عسْجَدِ

They said candied ginger is a mine of silver

Yet how come it never produced a fragment of silver