1. O rider, if you meet
Deliver my messages to the Commander of the Faithful

2. And say to Abu Hafs when you see him
You were unprofitable, with few virtues

3. Is it Godly to advance on Ibn Hazm and sever
The ties of kinship between us and the channels of communication?

4. How then can life be sweet and pleasurable
While your uncle is bound in shackles?

5. Never before did the Hazmis covet status
From any of the Marwanites, even the just ones

6. But they slandered us and aided our enemy against us
Those who were not oblivious to our plight

7. I thought kinship would not forsake
Its sanctities in eras past

8. To anyone of repute among the Marwanites
When we opposed his word, however eloquent

9. He is gladdened by what the enemy concluded though it is
Superfluous to me, despite being among the noblest supererogations

10. Do these people diminish me for being a Muslim
Undeserving of my affliction in those few nights?

11. Alas, many who rejoiced in us will rage
When the matter concludes bitterly, gnawing fingers

12. The family of Hazm sought peace from me, but I disdained
To be ignorant of their religion, and I will not be a party to it

13. They desire humiliation, for they are
The children of sinners, recoiling from good

14. Just as the matter turned against me, the heads of tribes waited
For my punishment of them