1. Your world resembles a gushing disobedient stream
Prone to advance and retreat

2. I did not swear by ink or pen of any liar
Rather the scholars and wise men lie

3. They claimed men tall as palm trees
While tribes have mothers as short as palm spadices

4. Whether they are big or small it's by God's power
To our Lord belong might and pride

5. I found six types of speech
Of which telling news was singled out

6. The hems of old age have stitched so, after
Youth created, can they be stitched?

7. The living low person is belittled, yet below him
Are nations fancying he is a tyrant

8. Bread and a cloak have sufficed you, so no need
To be picky in choosing fur coats

9. As for the Bedouins, their people endured
While only Bedouins and ruins remained

10. A person in the dust became dusty, bent over
As if he were but dust to dust

11. O you who seek blood vengeance for the slain
Know that the Lord of both worlds is a tyrant

12. Conflicting whims, this one pretending
In deed, and his faith is coercion