1. لَمَّا سَألتُ الناسَ أَينَ المكرَمه

    والعِزُّ والجُرثُومَةُ المقَدَّمَه

    When I asked the people, “Where is generosity,

    and honor, and the foremost ancestral stock,

  2. وأَين فَارُوقُ الاُمُور المُحكَمَه

    تَتَابَعَ النَّاسُ عَلَى ابنِ شُبرُمَه

    and where is the discerner of firmly established matters?”

    One after another, the people agreed on Ibn Shubruma.