1. Lo! A strange event to behold
For one who wonders in amazement

2. At names he calls them
The boldest when he claims descent

3. Learnt by him and his brethren
And all of them are liars about it

4. So what a band you are if one
Speaks of their origin they lie

5. While they are not pecked out of
The rocks of their ancestry, Arabs

6. For them in their house is lineage
And in the midst of the throng, lineage

7. Just as an unveiled traveller does not hide
And denies when she veils herself