1. I sold through the intermediary of estrangement and abandonment
And left off passing by it to the resurrection

2. A land managed by the son of a Sabian woman
Whose parting has turned grey because of unbelief

3. Barren camels from the Bani Tamim tribe, whose
Teats the shepherd cannot pass his hand over

4. They meet the threshing floors with rough and unkempt bunches
Disheveled, satisfying for the span

5. A mighty one has barred its wide entrance
So everything she has born is from behind

6. O son of Diyath the accursed, you have indeed
Attempted the impossible and drowned yourself in the sea

7. You have a beard like a he-goat's that has not ceased
To be dripping from its urine in a water-skin

8. With which, when your menstruating concubine becomes pure
The stupid one recognizes the start of purity

9. Soon her brother Karam will shave it
Honorable of lineage, good smelling

10. She is the one who tempted you, so seek for her
A house to protect her from the midday heat

11. And gather around her to prevent
All that you have consolidated of firm fortresses

12. For there has come to her what will leave her
Naked, devoid of hair

13. Perhaps in that there is benefit for you
O despicable one, though we do not know

14. We will spend the night as you had once been honorable
Among fornicators, esteemed and valued

15. Every licentious, corrupt, stinking, immoral one
Gives you your rule

16. You have been ignorantly titled As-Saddid though you have not
Been granted success in any prohibition or command

17. And you have named yourself the literary though in
The literature of the donkey are the wonders of time

18. If you, O Nuwas, had any manners
You would take off your clothes that expose

19. O he-goat, your whole life is butting
With the horns, it cannot withstand the rock

20. Hold off! For you have awakened a fierce lion
Whose claws and fangs tear

21. From a people who have worn the gown and were raised
Among the swords and white spears of perfect length

22. Under them the steeds strut when
They ride, so the gaze rises like the falcon

23. The people of the red tents, if they settle
In an empty wilderness, and the people of rough camel-hair cloaks

24. The tall palm trees are for them
And the blessed fruits of the land and sea

25. Their neighbor does not fear the days
And their guest - they provide for him from their wealth

26. You denied me, but soon you will recognize me
So you will acknowledge that I am the unique one of the age

27. So go, fleeing, however you wish, but you will not
Escape with the wings of the dirty crow

28. God may give respite to the wrongdoer until
A time and recompense cunning with cunning

29. You were excessive in oppressing people. Is it not
Time for the resurrection to be mentioned in your club?

30. And you helped the highway robbers against
The poverty of the merchants and the disappointment of travel

31. Half the merchandise when you seize it
Is booty! You have indeed gone too far in evil

32. You betrayed the Caliph regarding his subjects
And disobeyed him secretly and openly

33. And the riders have transmitted what
You did during his famed days

34. So let him shoot you with one of his arrows
And you will be split open from the throat

35. Respond to me without reconsidering
Whatever my poetry has composed against you

36. You are called As-Saddid but righteousness is not that
Al-Hasan's wife was married without a dowry

37. You have the responsibility for the pillars of evil, though
Your poetry has been weighed, do you have the responsibility for poetry?

38. I appointed Uthman so he agreed with me in it
And Abu Bakr followed him

39. Until I came out in their account
With what I had brought comfortably yellow

40. When I saw what they had done I said
"Alas! This is the egg of the killer"

41. The Beneficent does not waste the money of a youth
Who comes to you to sell or buy

42. This is the reward for composing poetry against you, and
The butt-kisser of the stone may be rewarded with stoning

43. You faced it with approval when it was recited to you
And you followed it though it was without knowledge

44. My excuse for my delirium is
That fever itself is an excuse

45. Indeed, the like of you I do not generously grant
Praise in poetry or prose

46. These are seven verses coming to you in seven hundred ways
I will make you forget them while the harvest belongs to the seed

47. From every verse that comes forth, a hundred
And the reward for the like of me is not small

48. So be patient with it O despicable one, not generously
For the dog is rewarded for killing with stoning