1. Know that the best of all mankind

    at Jafr al-Habāʾa shall never depart.

  2. Were it not for his wrongdoing, I would never cease to weep

    for him forever, as long as the stars arise.

  3. But the valiant Ḥaml ibn Badr

    transgressed—and transgression’s pasture is baneful.

  4. I think my forbearance has emboldened my people against me;

    even the forbearing man may be provoked into folly.

  5. I encounter outrages among my own men,

    so I condemn them—I am no inveterate oppressor.

Sol 5.6