1. Knowledge without action and repulsive deeds
And notorious immoralities beyond measure

2. Is this what you boast of, O despised one, in this
Wretched, lowly world?

3. O most wicked of creations, how much do you disobey Him
Who created you from nothingness, yet you don't repent?

4. Do you hope for salvation, with your known lineage,
While your ancestry is most notorious?

5. O wicked old man who strayed from the path of guidance,
There is no blame in killing the likes of you.

6. Why don't you cease your treachery
And desist from every sin, insisting upon it?

7. You dare to think of young boys, and that is a major sin,
Especially for a knowledgeable man - nothing is concealed from him.

8. If it was the sweetness of your youth that deceived you,
That is how a servant is misled into disbelief.

9. O despised House of Wickedness, for how long
Will you strut around in this misguidance, and scheme?

10. And drag the hem of your garment in sin, preferring
Disobedience to God over deeds for which you'll be rewarded?

11. I see that when someone prays differently than you
You declare him impure, though he is pure.

12. As for fasting, you deliberately abandoned it
And you fall short in paying the alms.

13. But we see you engrossed in supererogatory acts
While neglecting God's obligatory duties.

14. Or whenever your Lord gives you a blessing
You repay it with a sin that is unforgivable.

15. Or, hasn't old age prevented you from shameful faults
That you now recognize, though once unacknowledged?

16. If only the one who came upon you with his blade
Had been more firm and unrelenting in his attack.

17. If only he had sought help from his Lord
He would have finished you off and removed that disgrace.

18. When you were slapped on the nape with a palm
By a protector whose friendship you spurned,

19. Woe to you! How can you forget that night
When they attacked while you sat there drunk?

20. You forgot your misery in that dark, confined space
Where you said, "that was destined".

21. O companion of evildoers! Do you gloat
Over the widows of the men whose blood you shed?

22. Do you think after this that you are a Muslim?
You are more unbelieving than Pharaoh!

23. If you had kept to these major sins alone
It would have sufficed, and earned you the greatest punishment.

24. But you added to them, lying, fraud,
Polytheism and mischief, as they established.

25. O pillar of the house of sin, is there any repentance
With which you will meet a Lord Most Forgiving?

26. So listen, desist, and accept the advice
Of one offering you sincere counsel.

27. Lest you plunge into the depths of Hell
And witness terrors beyond description.

28. Know that if I see you afterwards
Tarrying in the abode of filth,

29. I will set upon you in your censure a stalwart poet
Whose steed in battle does not stumble.

30. If only the preachers had some of my encounters
In deterring a people wrapped up in misguidance.

31. Then the ploys of Iblis would be foiled, whose troops
Are few when mustered.