1. The scholars lost their way in your days,
And the ignorant led them into darkness.

2. Our ignorance was shrouded in confusion, when
The clear sky was shut off from its brightness.

3. The masculine nouns are slaves to the King,
And likewise the feminine ones are slave girls.

4. So the crescent moon, the full moon, dawn,
Morning, land, water, Sirius, sun, fire,

5. Plowshare, earth, mid-morning, and sky.
All these to your Lord are obedient,

6. As the wise say in their words about this.
Leave me be, brother, to ask God for forgiveness,

7. For nothing remains in me but sorrow.
And it is said the generous only remain in name,

8. For in this age there are only titles and names.
And tales spread by transgressors,

9. And lies invented by ancients for profit.
These celebrities, weaved by the rhythm of time,

10. Over their people ignorance reigns.
How strange is destiny, it is accomplished for creation,

11. So even the rational plan to wear out.
Or do they not see the havoc of those who make mischief,

12. How in-laws and loved ones disappear?
Oppression has conquered since it came upon creation,

13. And the wise died of anger because of it.
So watch out, O determined one, even if

14. You had the height of impregnable mountains.
And I see the four instincts in us

15. Quarrelling in the body of the youth.
Whether they agree or not, diseases and swoons

16. Will not cease from them.
And I found time to be a foreigner, violent,

17. In its rule the non-Arabs reign.
Verily your world is but a day and a night,

18. And in it is a cunning old serpent.
And the innocent will fulfill the debts of the demise

19. That will be settled when the creditors are present.
And the people returned after Ka'b died

20. And a thirsty band was saturated with wine.
An animal, mineral and plant that does not sleep,

21. For it, irrigation brings growth.
If only people feared punishment,

22. Blood would not flow.
More deserving of mercy in consequences

23. Are a people gentle in their first nature.
And we were angered by the claim of one claiming truth,

24. That we in our origins are wicked.
You, O Adam, are the sheep of humanity,

25. Among them is Eve or worthless beings.
Time has worn us out, did the buzzards wail

26. When the worn out ones passed away?
A confused world like the bird of the air

27. And the fluttering it gathers in darkness.
As if ambitions were Amr bin Dirma,

28. Cut from his mother Dirma while still unborn.
And the fragrant north wind protects it

29. From the garment of your enemies, a rabbit with large ears.
And it carried us, atop the rubble, a flogging

30. And a piercing in falsehood and throwing.
Black of heart, black, and when

31. My ear listens, his ear is deaf.
An archer has shot, so he grew and deafened,

32. And your nights, they have no growth.
Indeed, the Lord of the erected fortress, Tayma',

33. Has turned away, and Tayma' was left behind.
Or did the Pleiades refrain from wearing shoes,

34. Then the talk stopped and hints were made?
It (the sky) witnessed with its six stars to the King,

35. Then the Khadhib and Al Jathma.
So the understanding of people is like the ignorant,

36. And only the wise are illuminated with regret.
A mother and daughter meet in the grave

37. And the relatives and loved ones become equal.
The fine spring is reached by summer

38. In which are the white and the red.
And my path to the bathroom is hated

39. When horrors approach, the brave are not granted.
And if the desert were a fierce warrior

40. And it is barren from every side.
How can a people not share the blessing

41. Between the two constricted, when blessings are upon them?