حازَ الرئاسةَ جاهلٌ ظلماًولم

حازَ الرئاسةَ جاهلٌ ظلماًولم

يكُ أَهلَها فلذاكَ عنها قد خُزِل

يكُ أَهلَها فلذاكَ عنها قد خُزِل

An ignorant man unjustly gained the leadership, and was not

An ignorant man unjustly seized power

worthy of it; therefore he was stripped of it.

Yet was unfit for it, so from it he was dismissed

باغٍ أَراهُ العزلُ مَصرَعَ بغيهِ

باغٍ أَراهُ العزلُ مَصرَعَ بغيهِ

فاحسِن بتأريخٍ به الباغي غُزلِ

فاحسِن بتأريخٍ به الباغي غُزلِ

An oppressor—dismissal showed him the downfall of his oppression.

Ambition made dismissal the death of his plotting

So how fine a chronogram in which the oppressor was deposed (apparently intended; the text reads 'spun')!

So date it well, for on that date the plotter was dismissed