1. Flash and thunder, O Yazid, yet your threats bring me no harm
Are you anything but empty noise, noise that echoes in the abyss for fleet horses

2. You roar and speak of matters as if you were a grinding stone revolving
When it was said "O grinding stone, speak of birds for you are the worst bird"

3. So it went on with what it was worthy of
While the wise avoided the paralysis of lectures