يقول على غعبني على ابن فله

البيهس الشب التقي

ʿAlī says: ʿAlī ibn Fullah gulped me down,

The young, pious lion.

قد اكتسى لو الأصيل حله

يجهش تجاهه ما لقى

The noble one has donned himself a robe;

Whatever he encounters bursts into sobs before him.

يبدى على الدم النكير سعله

باسنان مثل العولقي

Over dreadful blood he appears a ghoul,

With teeth like the ʿAwlaqī.

يخلى الفيران بسيس بسله

إذا بدا من موشقي

A little cat leaves the mice in a basket,

When he emerges from Mawshaqī.

قد صح موته في الطبيق خله

كذب ان من دور لقى

His death in al-Ṭabīq was confirmed—regard that as

A lie: indeed, whoever searched found him.

إذا خرج للصيد مد سبله

هي والشوارب تلتقى

When he goes hunting, he stretches out his beard;

It and his moustaches meet.

وإن تقعم خلت جرف عبله

في جنب فمه خزوقي

And if he gapes, you would take ʿAblah’s cliff

For a stake beside his mouth.

ونفس رأسه والعياذ باللَه

يدكم زحل بالمفرق

And his very head—God preserve us—

Butts Saturn with its crown.

وجلسة الدنيا قليل وشله

وبعد حمران ما بقى

And a stay in this world is brief, a mere trickle;

And after Ḥumrān, nothing remained.

والخوض في العاجل عنا وشغله

والسعد في الدنيا التقى

And plunging into this passing world is toil and distraction;

And happiness in this world is piety.