1. أبا الصقر من يشفع إليكَ بشافعٍ

    فمالي سوى شعري وجودك شافعُ

    O Abu al-Saqr, if others plead with you through an intercessor,

    I have no intercessor but my poetry and your generosity.

  2. وجُودُك يكفي دون كلِّ ذريعةٍ

    إذا لم تكن للطالبين ذرائعُ

    And your generosity suffices without any means of approach,

    When petitioners have no means of approach.

  3. أتيتُك في عرضٍ مصون طويتُه

    ثلاثين عاماً فهْوَ أبيضُ ناصعُ

    I came to you with inviolate honor, which I kept folded away

    For thirty years; it is white and spotless.

  4. ومثلُك من لم يُلْقَ في ثوبِ بِذْلةٍ

    ولا مَلْبسٍ قد دنَّسَتْه المطامع

    And one like you is not approached in a workaday robe,

    Nor in attire that greed has already soiled.

  5. وحلَّأتُ نفسي عن شرائعَ جمةٍ

    لترويَني مَمّا لديك الشرائع

    And I kept myself from many watering places,

    So that the watering places might quench my thirst with what you have.

  6. وأنت الذي نادى المولِّين جودُهُ

    ودلَّتْ عليه الراغبين الصنائع

    And you are the one whose generosity called to those turning away,

    And whose benefactions guided those seeking favor to him.

  7. وما قادني ظنٌّ إليك مشبِّهٌ

    ولكن يقينٌ ثاقبُ النُورِ ساطع

    And no misleading supposition led me to you,

    But certainty, piercing and radiant in its light.

  8. فإن تفعل الحُسنَى فشكريَ راهنٌ

    وإن تكنِ الأُخرى فعُذْريَ واسع

    So if you show kindness, my gratitude is assured;

    And if it is otherwise, I have ample excuse for you.