1. Your mosques and your ablution places
Are all the same, so stay far from people
١. مَساجِدُكُم وَمَواخيرُكُم
سَواءٌ فَبُعداً لَكُم مِن بَشَر
2. You are neither good plants
Nor palm trees nor titheable crops
٢. وَما أَنتُمُ بِالنَباتِ الحَميدِ
وَلا بِالنَخيلِ وَلا بِالعُشَر
3. But Qatadah, the hell-dweller
Who does great harm and accepts only evil
٣. وَلَكِن قَتادٌ عَديمُ الجَناةِ
كَثيرُ الأَذاةِ أَبى غَيرَ شَرّ
4. And your night is ever dark
Will you await a bright dawn?
٤. وَلَيلُكُم أَبَداً مُظلِمٌ
فَهَل تَرقَبونَ صَباحاً جَشَر
5. Would that I were in the earth, arising not
If God called you or assembled you
٥. فَيا لَيتَني في الثَرى لا أَقومُ
إِن اللَهَ ناداكُمُ أَو حَشَر
6. And it does not please me that I am alive
Though glory appears and spreads for me
٦. وَما سَرَّني أَنَّني في الحَياةِ
وَإِن بانَ لي شَرَفٌ وَاِنتَشَر
7. I see four supported seven
And those are occurrences in twelve
٧. أَرى أَربَعاً آزَرَت سَبعَةً
وَتِلكَ نَوازِلُ في اِثنَي عَشَر