1. بَخِلتَ برَشحٍ مِن كِتابٍ مُمَزَّقٍ

    وَقَد كُنتَ تَسخو بِالهَوامِي الهَوامِعِ

    You grudged me a trickle from a tattered book,

    though you once gave freely of flowing, pouring rains.

  2. وَدافَعتَني بِالرَدِّ إِذ كُنتُ سائِلاً

    وَما كُنتُ لَما سَلتَني بِالمدافِعِ

    You rebuffed me with refusal when I asked,

    though when you asked me, I did not rebuff you.

  3. أَعَرتُكَ تَسهيلَ الفَوائِدِ بُرهَةً

    وَأَصبَحت في التَرشيحِ ظُلماً مُنازِعي

    I lent you Tashīl al-Fawāʾid for a while,

    and you unjustly became my adversary over al-Tarshīḥ.

  4. فَلي سَبقُ فَضلٍ قَد جُزيتُ بِضِدِّهِ

    وَوصلَةِ وُدٍّ صِرتَ فيها مُقاطِعي

    For I was first to show kindness, yet was repaid with its opposite,

    and to form a bond of affection, which you came to sever with me.

  5. وَما كُنتَ تَدري ما الكِتابُ وَإِنِّما

    وَشَى نَحوَك الواشي بِهِ وَهوَ خادِعي

    You did not know what the book was; it was only

    the tale-bearer who told you of it—and he deceives me.

  6. تُنازِعني النَفسُ اللجوجُ طِلابه

    فَقُلت لَها إِذ أَيأسَتني مَطامِعي

    My obstinate soul urges me to seek it,

    so I said to it, when my hopes had made me despair:

  7. إِذا شافِعي فيهِ غَدا لي مانِعي

    فَأَنى بِإدراكي لما عِند شافِعِ

    “If my intercessor for it has become the one who keeps it from me,

    then how can I obtain what an intercessor holds?”