1. Between the red tents and veils
Languid steeds of droopy eyelids arrived

2. Drunkenness of youth intoxicated us
The tipsiness of slender waists bent

3. And fruits of their breasts rose above their bodies
So I was deprived of touching beautiful figures and places

4. Oh house I would water it with tears and it accepts
So I made its watering conditional on conditions

5. I do not accept watering it with tears even if it pleases it
So I made its watering conditional on conditions

6. Passion deceived me with its necklaces and showed me
With luxurious chitchat and a generous host

7. And figured ivory dotted
With musk not attributed to a carver

8. And a bejeweled one that has no dawn in its darkness
Except the radiance of hair partings

9. Whose chains were polished and broken
By fingers like clay seals

10. Days when the heedless heart exceeded limits in passion
However it wished of ravage and excess

11. For my flirtation and carelessness with coquettes
And my rise to temptation and activity

12. I swagger between chirping and blossoms
And wander between carpets and cushions

13. And the garden has spread its themes
As if they are wondrous themes

14. Why did time assault our nobles
So you weakened and overlooked the Nabataeans

15. Is it enmity towards the eminent or determination
That fell so it inclined towards the lowly

16. The necks of the enemies submitted when they saw
Their captives passing under my whips

17. Until when they retreated on their heels
The messenger approached me from Damascus

18. The teacher spoke the truth that he is from a family
Of Arabs led by the Beni Sumbat

19. Your fathers were nobles except they were
Nobles of apes, pigs, and mongrels

20. A lineage whose unfurling reveals your descent
Like a garment you unfold to expose rags

21. If you were, O son of the most wicked two, to a sensible one
Your support would not deter you from the most despicable man

22. Damiyah, the Qurayshite, weaned you while restrained
She discarded you fearfully without swaddling

23. She rushed so she did not wrap you in coarse wool
And entrusted you to the safekeeping of a careful Muslim

24. I saw a beautiful one whose door the troops of adultery and homosexuality knocked
And I picked a blossoming one but did not find

25. Fruits like her breasts when the plucker plucks
A young woman who gives leadership to a friend

26. And spits on the dust of her transgressing enemy
People's morals have dried up so their bodies are not known

27. Except the morals of those who hold whips
You have forgotten an era when leadership was for you that did not cease

28. To accompany you like the wage of every promiscuous tattooed one
In Manzil Biqhab your frequented house

29. Where fetuses of the despised are buried
So you committed incest with your sister in protection

30. And with your mother through it undeniably
And when you lift your behind off their hands

31. Their word to you, O teacher, is despicable
The world was once easy on you

32. But today it has become deadly poison for a tailor
You have angered me though the livelihood of sin is sweet

33. So you have harvested the bitterest life from my anger
And you knew when you burdened yourself with my limits

34. That hopes are distant hopes
Do you expect me while my status is the zenith

35. Nobility between the two honorable lines
After the great sat in my council

36. I sat between a leader and eminent
And the swords of my speech have become famous

37. Shaking Iraq and Fustat
And I have lowered the status of the enemy with words

38. Like the claws of beasts tearing rags
Far from you is the pain of joints

39. And wounds of hearts and pulling of pulp
Your ignorance of poetry has deluded you

40. Until you were shredded by an unsheathed claw
And you have tried claims for yourself that revealed

41. A deep sea of deception and distant shores
I have seen your knowledge as inferior and carving

42. And found your luck from rags and patches
And it has become a strange blemish on your honor

43. A sign like you have marked a Coptic garment
The little fortune of goodness and abundant worries

44. Have left you with scarce shares
Speech you see as scattered scorpions

45. And others see as essence of rags
So be patient for shredding the despicable one and whoever

46. The sword has protected, leave him to the cleaver
Tell those hastening to his aid

47. The hastening of moths to the lamp of death
I will resume elaborating on your honors

48. And injustice is the best carpet for fools
Experience their flashes of illusion and deduce

49. The water of demise however deduced
A farmer of a field and a fool of a beard

50. And a teacher inclined to a tailor
If the plagiarizer of poetry was limited, they would exceed

51. The limit or be cut off from the prepuces
Refrain for I do not expose lineage that

52. Has no mixing with the riffraff