1. Men oppressed their wives and were tyrannical
Do Egyptian women have any supporters?

2. O community of writers! Where is your affliction?
Where is eloquence and wisdom of thought?

3. Is it nonsense to you, you don't care
About building morals without foundation?

4. I have news for you about the injustice to women
That stirs the conscience of the virtuous

5. Of what I saw and learned while traveling
And knowledge is some benefits of journeys

6. It's an opportunity to speak and a doctrine
For a researcher and lady of the house

7. Many groups came to Dar Al Saadah
Egyptian farmers and people of wealth

8. Marrying women under them
Who are neither immoral nor wicked

9. Who shared their prime youth and gave them
For ages a cup of joyful wine

10. Mothers, their sons and daughters
Modesty itself like walls

11. Patient with adversity and affliction
Spending the night with prayers

12. Everyone past seventy hides their grey hair
Though it shines on their cheeks like daylight

13. Except for frivolity, their hearts admit no grey hair
Small in concerns and dignity

14. No tenderness restrains them, or kindness
No righteousness towards family or longing for home

15. How many playboys are distracted from grandchildren
By flirting with juvenile girls

16. Wherever he goes out on his ramble
A matchmaker pushes him to a broker

17. Elders are busy with contracts and he with
Changing spouses and in-laws

18. Every year his mind is on a child
Like the sun, if proposed to, it's for the moons

19. The parents shower three on her
I don't know which is harshest

20. Money made the unlawful lawful
Even old men marrying young brides

21. It has bewitched hearts, so many a mother
Her heart for it became stone

22. She handed her daughter to a decrepit bed
And threw her into isolation and captivity

23. Justifying it by law, I said she lied
God's law isn't by the butcher's knife

24. The girl wasn't married but her youth and beauty
Were sold for dinars

25. Some marriages are as vile as adultery
And slavery, if compared for dishonor

26. I searched but found no aptness in marriage
Like aptness of spouses in age

27. I lament for those beauties whenever
Taken from decline to the vortex

28. Indeed, the veil over classes is a paradise
While Egypt's veil is of fire

29. And over faces like moons were terrified
After unveiling with hood and veil

30. And over locks that are musk were mixed
When embracing like melting tar

31. And over lively lips, the winds
Of old men blew at dawn and killed them

32. And over gatherings atop every flirt
Between mountains and a lustrous shore

33. Boats approach unloading filth
With a necklace or bracelet

34. They strut in silk robes of varied
Colors like flowers in March

35. The virtuous glances like deer
Melodious voices like strings

36. Time separated them, so pass by it
Oh Lord, let fate reunite them