1. Had Eve known that joining with Adam
Would bring her the worst of calamities later,

2. She would not have allowed her husband to be with her even for a day,
Nor would she have borne from him the most wicked transgressor.

3. But she brought him into the world against her will,
So Iblis gained all glories through him.

4. How could it be otherwise when they both strayed into sin and deception,
And he raised him in every sort of outrage.

5. He is but greedy in evil,
Far be it from comparing him with the gentle.

6. He is but foolish in wisdom,
And in madness he is but clamoring.

7. Why do I see the wise humbled before the ignorant?
Why do I see the blind considered as seeing?

8. Why do I see the enlightened grow distant?
And the atheist gained wishes without gratitude.

9. Why do I see sciences governed
By an ignorant one who has become authoritative and commanding?

10. Do I not have an excuse when I said, chronicling,
That knowledge has maliciously sunk to the bottom of graves?