1. I see the son of Hurayth who cares not for my satire
And continues to be content with my satirizing

2. Even if I also satirize his mother, he would not care for me
Just as he was not troubled by my raillery

3. It does not harm him after that
That I satirize her such that he sees me

4. Whether my tongue and my companion make clear his matter
It's the same if the jesters satisfy him

5. They are two unrestrained parties, both of them
The same to whoever else is not a protector

6. Do you not see that Allah has limited for them both
A limit, and Allah was a just judge

7. Oh son of Hurayth, I satirize your mother angrily
And you show resilience while I am excited

8. So refrain, be patient with my satire, for I
Am determined with it, the Nile did not flow

9. If a man does not care about the chastity of his woman
Then her chastiser is more worthy to not care

10. My satirizing you heals me, even if you don't care
It suffices you as an illness that I gain my remedy

11. I swear if you laugh mockingly
At my poetry, your conscience has cried

12. And you barking at my poetry after
Its fires have appeared from your cheeks constantly

13. Is like the dog in his biting the horn of his horn
After a stab depleted him completely

14. And he pretended with what pained him while hiding it
Though he does not conceal with that what is hidden

15. He feigned calmness which is not of his nature
And turned away from his sores while pretending

16. To convey to me the tightness of his abdomen
So he can vent in my presence and frown

17. He did not scheme except after his patience ran out
More fitting for an ignorant one to trick the cunning

18. It's as if I see him when he assessed his matter
Then counseled himself there in solitude

19. So one of them said to him, "It is disgrace
For a man to be protected while not protecting"

20. You are not of those people; if they are protected
Then do not expose yourself to what you cannot suffice

21. And the other said to him, advising him
"Yes, ride the rough seas and dive in the depths"

22. So he did not see except for ruinous recklessness
Due to its withdrawal from his scheming and denial

23. Thus he listened to the order of the one who advised him
Whether he came to consciousness or not, he is not astray

24. Perhaps the son of Hurayth's suspicions will relax
To the extent I suffered rhymes for him

25. So his madness or troubles are cured
By his imagining that he split me open and restrained me

26. Let him not imagine that about me in his ignorance
I am not what I am guided to meanings for him

27. And how can I compose poetry for him that I speak
While the one I criticize does not seek passages to me?

28. That is because vilification comes to every fallen one
Like a flood seeking a valley

29. Torrents called by a dwelling and led
By a channel, so they came full of floods

30. Yes, passageways rising high are only for a man
Who looked to the peaks of lofty mountains

31. Like the people of bounty, courage, knowledge, and argument
May Allah water those generations and meadows