1. O Abu Ubayda, who is responsible for news
That he only tells as an inquiry to one who asked?

2. You have refused except to object to our group
And none's opinion has ripened or become secluded.

3. Thus the first Qibla has been changed
And you have refused, so what substitute do you desire for it?

4. You claimed Bahram or Baydakht provides for us
No! But rather, Utarid or Burjiss or Zuhl.

5. And you said that all people are in an orbit
It surrounds them and in it their time is partitioned.

6. And the Earth is spherical, the sky encompassed it
Above and below, and it became an exemplary dot.

7. The south’s summer is the north’s winter in it
Between them this and that alternated.

8. So if January is in San’a and Cordoba
Cold, September in them kindles flames.

9. This evidence, and no deceived saying
From laws that clarify saying and doing.

10. Just as the son of Moses persisted in his misguidance
And roughed the plain until it was mountainous.

11. Convey to Mu’awiyah, listening to both of them,
That I have disbelieved in what they said and did.