1. Ask about me the lewd people's children
The morning after I left them like dust

2. Noah and Lot bear witness to that
Along with the two opposites, fire and water

3. For the people of Lot there was fire from the sky
And for Noah's people, water as an ordeal

4. They came upon a land and corrupted its people
So their corruption reached the highest heaven

5. Men without minds were like women
Women without modesty were like men

6. They made the forbidden permissible
By rejecting orders with defiance

7. And they betrayed all that belongs to God until
I saw sanctity insulted with curses

8. Black men appeared in such blackness
As if they were rubbish under a cloak

9. So God's country vomited them out
Like vomiting grit during pregnancy

10. Neither solid earth embraces them
Nor did the sky's expanse carry them

11. That sky is not a sky for them
As if they are vipers in a container

12. Spreading its poison in every soul
And what's inside the vessel oozes out

13. So do not wonder if I ignited
An intensely blazing fire upon them

14. I left them by it fallen and confused
Seeking refuge from the ordeal

15. I killed their corruption without war
Which is a strange kind of care

16. A man dies of an incurable disease
When recovery is hard on the medicine

17. Do you deny their death when I am Suhail*
I rose with the death of the adulterers' children

18. If they died, oh what a loss for me!
And if they lived, they lived with disease

19. An existence bound to perish
A perishing bound to exist

20. He who wants permanence without merit
Returns from perishing to perishing

21. When hope lacks righteousness
To support it, it severs hope

22. No ascending without steps
No drawing water without a bucket