1. The night refused to part with its darkness
As if I was putting kohl on sleepy eyes forbidden

2. Its folds returned as if its stars
Were necklaces taken off from smooth skin

3. I complain to Allah, not people, that I
Suck the daughters of pearls, an addicted sucker

4. And a market where women's clothes are robbed
Given to the penniless as gifts and rags

5. To what end, O Lu'ay, son of Ghalib
Do you respond to what has befallen me and silenced me

6. Recite a verse you read
That made my country halal to conquer and oppress

7. Else may Allah increase the distance between me and you
And make succeed the many cowards who were vile

8. You witnessed the suckling between us and Thaqif
While the caretaker of Zamzam was absent

9. O Banu Hashim, if you meet them
You grieve and cannot restrain your tears

10. You will know if a slipper slips
And every man meets what he has forwarded

11. That you have confronted the fangs of a serpent
Who stares with her eyes at the brave and deluded

12. And how many enemies who wished me harm
Behind my back, and had I met him, he would have regretted

13. Many threatened, until when I met him
He persisted in sin, even if he had sworn

14. And you, O Banu Ham son of Noah
I see you have lips like buttocks of she-camels

15. If you say you are free of Quraysh, I have not found
Worse people than your father and mother

16. As a child he sucked in a rag until
His nanny let him suck till he grew up and was weaned

17. He saw a tough skin of the people of Ham
And a head like sheep skulls with peeling scabs

18. You were outcasts among Thaqif, your status
O children of the slave, your blood never avenges blood