1. If Yahya deems me unworthy,
God is more powerful than him over me and us.

2. Why does he act so arrogantly
With a radiant face from which zahar drops drizzle?

3. And with coquetry and flirtation,
And a lean body like a trimmed branch.

4. And when he walks, his buttocks
Risk breaking from the swaying.

5. O lines of an arched back bending over him
Like a full inscribed moon.

6. Do not harbor estrangement, for I swore
By a flask and backgammon and the devilish Sheikh, forgive me.

7. I will show you a war in Sowsus
Terrifying and making you flee.

8. And Harith ibn Abbad’s
Thursday gathering I will disrupt.

9. And provoke the day of dogs
And do what Zayd did with the stone.

10. And Amer ibn Tufayl
And the son of Zubair and Antar.

11. With the action of a solid palm
Upon you I have decided a matter.

12. If you become vain with beauty
I will come to you with violence and cleave you in two.