1. If your branches won't bend gently,
Then let your tongue speak softly to me,

2. And outrun the zeal of an impetuous one,
Whose blood has splattered your walls.

3. If Ali had not helped you against me,
You would have found nothing to aid you.

4. You have adorned your anklets and wrists
With the likes of what a bangle adorns you.

5. If not for your affiliation with the idols,
You would have been Badr or a statue.