1. O tribe of Hanifa, how wretched is Musaylimah!
How lost are those misguided ones who became his followers!

2. You brought him in garments filled with filth
That almost spill out from the enormity of his misdeeds.

3. The earth casts him out as a devil and rejects him
As a filthy evil that came as an innovator.

4. Woe to him when the star in his hand shows him
A misguided soul that greedily desired him.

5. He sought prophethood, with half for the one
In whom it was gathered, and half for himself—what evil he devised!

6. The Prophet said to him, “If you had come to ask me
For this position which you coveted, I would have refused.”

7. “I am the Prophet, and my affair allows no partnership.
So deny desire and turn back, if you can turn back.”

8. Lost in the darkness of accumulated ignorance,
For a time he surrounded the people, then it dispersed.

9. They inclined to the truth, seeking out its origin,
And nothing is sought like the truth, to which one returns.

10. And he came in blind sedition, adorned for him
By delusion and evil opinion, so he was deceived.

11. Indeed all corruption and misguidance together
Returned to Al-Yamamah in his hides.

12. He took the people, misleading and lying to them—
Did they ever see one skilled in lying like him?

13. He says the Messenger of God made him
His partner in command, bearing half of it.

14. And he went about calling to a religion he adorned,
The most wretched of all those who called to it.

15. He abolished the prayer and gave people their desires
Of adultery and festering poisons together.

16. The religion of immorality and hated things! No,
God did not bless the religion he legislated.

17. If he went throwing it at a mountain,
It would tower over mountains in nobility and split apart!

18. What are “grinding mills” and “T’s” that he repeats?
Only one depraved, knowing no piety would say this.

19. Patience, O Hanifa! God is his killer,
And God's command, when it comes, cannot be rejected.