1. Has Qasim been deceived, O Asma, by what he supposed?
Stay behind the curtain, for man is deluded.

2. If my absence is revealed, I will remember you
And regret the growth today of your memory in me.

3. You are extremely distressed by the veil when there is in it
Nothing but what those visions and allegations have yielded.

4. Greetings to morals in all of the East
When honours are violated in homes.

5. O Qasim, do not attack with your army seeking
Through your people and Islam what Allah knows.

6. From the first builders we have a remaining
With which our honours and the sacred things seek refuge.

7. I ask myself when you crept in wanting it,
Are you of the builders or are you a demolisher?

8. Were it not for those whose afflictions you weep for
No upholder of morals in Egypt would have stood.

9. You tossed to us in the book as though
Its pages were of battles the warriors carried.

10. So in each of its lines there is a sudden calamity,
And in each of its letters an attacking army.

11. Your affection - the matter has exceeded the boundary
And there remains in the world for your people no compassionate one.

12. The roaring lions have besieged us openly
And the wolves crept toward us in the darkness.

13. And I care not what the enemy reaps when he shoots
Like the least that the friendly peaceful one reaps.

14. For us in God's book there is an adorned glory
And eternal kingdom over eras and time.

15. When we will, our might makes the earth quake,
And its regions and capitals submit to us.

16. We attack and overwhelm the nations and we bend
With our oaths their booty and spoils.

17. We have spent our lives vanquished, our souls withering
And determination failing us among the risers.

18. There remained only that our kingdom be surrounded
And only that the greatest things make us anxious.

19. The earth's peoples hastened seeking their own affairs
While a people slept in Egypt unconcerned.

20. We sought the virtuous ladies, wanting them
Herds grazing sustenance and they are sublime.

21. But a man who at night casts his sheep
To where the wolves lounge in the darkness is unjust.

22. And every life that wrongs honour is disgraceful booty
And no life made great by misdeeds is protected.

23. Do the glorious and the highborn come
With what the beards and turbans failed against?

24. May God forgive a people whose suspicions went too far
So neither the approach is safe nor is opinion wise.

25. Beware - in Islam there is a festering disease
And God's book for the disease is decisive.