1. مالك موفور فما باله

    أكسبك التيه على المعدم

    Your wealth is abundant; why, then, has it

    given you such arrogance toward the destitute?

  2. ولم إذا جئت نهضنا وان

    جئتا تطاولت ولم تتمم

    And why, when you come, do we rise, yet if

    [we] come, you stretch upward but never fully rise?

  3. وإن خرجنا لم تقل مثل ما

    نقول قدم طرفه قدم

    And if we leave, you do not say the same as

    we say: “Bring his steed forward! Bring it!”

  4. إن كنت ذا علم فمن ذا الذي

    مثل الذي تعلم لم يعلم

    If you possess knowledge, who is there

    who has not learned the like of what you know?

  5. ولست في الغارب من دولة

    ونحن من دونك في المتسم

    Nor are you at the withers of power,

    with us beneath you at the [hoof].

  6. وقد ولينا وعزلنا كما

    أنت فلم نصغر ولم تعظم

    We too have held office and been dismissed, just as

    you have; we did not become lesser, nor did you grow greater.

  7. تكافأت أحوالنا كلها

    فصل على الانصاف أو فاصرم

    All our circumstances have been equal;

    so keep our bond on fair terms, or sever it.