عضد الدين أنت أبسطُ عدلا

عضد الدين أنت أبسطُ عدلا

من قباذِ ومن أنوشروانِ

من قباذِ ومن أنوشروانِ

ʿAḍud al-Dīn, you spread justice more widely

O Adhud al-Din, you are the simplest justice

than Qubādh and Anūshirwān.

From Qabath and from Anushirwan

كان شن الغارات في البلد ال

كان شن الغارات في البلد ال

قفر فصارت تشن في الدين

قفر فصارت تشن في الدين

Raids were once launched in the land—

Raiding the country was empty

barren; now they are launched against the faith.

So they started raiding the religion

فلكم قط من كرازك دخن

فلكم قط من كرازك دخن

ومخالي قطن فتى القطار

ومخالي قطن فتى القطار

For how much millet he has cut from your sacks,

So how long will your cooking pots smoke

and cotton feedbags—the caravan lad! [Wording uncertain.]

And your tents' cotton, young man of the train

ما لهذا وللكتابة لولا

ما لهذا وللكتابة لولا

خَرَف من صدور ذاك الزمانِ

خَرَف من صدور ذاك الزمانِ

What has this man to do with scribal work, were it not

This would not happen to writing, if not

for senility among the leading men of that age?

For delusions from the chests of that time

فتناوله بالمقارع ضربا

فتناوله بالمقارع ضربا

وانتزع منه مال قاصٍ ودارِ

وانتزع منه مال قاصٍ ودارِ

So beat him with scourges,

So take him with clubs, beating

and wrest from him a distant man's wealth, and deal gently [last phrase uncertain].

And snatch from him stolen money and house