1. O master, you were branches
Whose roots were woven by opinion

2. I'm like 'Amr - fated the same
Whose days drag on in disgrace

3. I'm like 'Amr - dishonored
Intentionally and with no redress

4. Don't you see how much I resent
This, like a sword that roams unrestrained

5. O 'Amr, the floods have washed away
Your mother's sorrow and distress

6. 'Amr, your face shows your disgrace
Like any other dog's face of shame

7. Where is your self-respect? Tell me
You dog! A dog cannot speak its name

8. A dog's habit is to transgress
A dog's habit is also to shirk

9. A dog's vices flourish in you
Fading, yet never made to work

10. Though a dog has virtues too
Guarded by God and his Prophet

11. A dog growls and a dog barks
Its lot is vileness and torpor

12. A dog is loyal, yet you betray
So you fall short of its nature

13. It may protect the livestock
But you do not protect or fight

14. You come from an evil house
With a story that is long in plight

15. Their faces are signs for all
Yet their morals are only blight

16. We ask God's forgiveness, for we Have acted as ignorant souls might
We did not ask you lightly

17. As one asks after trinkets and baubles
Silent, flawed - no discourse

18. No script, no envoy, no apostles
If you're truly repentant

19. You're with the tyrants - rabid ghoul!
A long face dripping spittle

20. Is better than you pissing your drool
No, you have mange and a snoot

21. As such is the habitual mule
If these are tools for contrition

22. What wisdom do minds construe?
Long snouts on faces

23. Gaping maws inspiring fear
If this is how the penitent look

24. They're bugs and worms - nothing more!
Should a master see you one day

25. He'd be forbearing, calm, and demure
I'm not bored of patience toward you

26. But vexed by my awful luck
The meter is mustaf'ilun

27. fa'ilun fa'ulun
A verse like you holds no meaning

28. Save that it is redundant