1. O Ahmad ibn Abi Du'ad, I sent
Spears and swords to you as an invitation

2. What are these innovations you named
With ignorance - justice and monotheism?

3. You corrupted the matter of religion when you took charge
And cast it with Abul Walid and the boy Walid

4. Neither mature and meaningful nor elegant
Old nor newly praised

5. Evil when virtues and sublimity are mentioned
Speaking of insignificant matters, initiating and repeating

6. If only Rabi'ah and the sons of Iyad altogether
Were made into one nonsense and worthless page

7. And when he sits pompously in gatherings, you likened him
To a hyena and likened his father's sons to monkeys

8. And when he smiles laughing, you likened him
To the rising sun, hastening his drink gulped down

9. No eye that saw those nostrils
And black lips awoke to any good