1. The scoundrels overflowed and accounts were settled,
The noble and the refined were uprooted.

2. It was as if the Day of Resurrection took them by surprise,
With no lineage between them, and no bonds.

3. Omayyad, your apology will not benefit you when seeking
My forgiveness, for after reproach comes punishment.

4. Let whoever desires his veil conceal him,
Why would there be any veil over nothing?

5. Never have I heard, nor will I ever hear,
In a desert with a door upon it.

6. He whose shame is lost, his face
Is without a doorman to guard it.

7. My obsessive thoughts kept deceiving my mind
Until it hoped for rain without clouds.

8. I did not know, had I not realized,
That mirages run through the courtyards of homes.

9. Strange are the people who hear my praises of you,
Yet do not say: "Arise, for you are right."

10. They rejected me as a lying Musailamah,
They were mistaken and went astray, rather I am the liar.

11. I compromised my religion and took cover in repentance,
I admit my sin, the ever-repentant.