1. The homes and dwellings once full of tranquility
Are now empty and desolate

2. Your passion disturbed me with questions
Yet would not wait for an answer

3. So send them tears of blood
And stop them with pleas of the soul

4. Match the radiant with the radiant
And the alluring with the alluring

5. Those who resembled straight, erect stalks
Perfect in beauty without fault

6. Adorned with innate, molded ornament
Not made by the work of a craftsman's hands

7. When they remove their jewellery
They are no less adorned by their graces

8. And when they walk touching
Those idols and corresponding

9. Their breasts provoke jealousy
When they touch those idols

10. And when they wear anklets
They belie the name of anklets

11. Their swaying scarcely shakes them
As they are solid, not swinging

12. Yet they yearn for those coquettes
With intense, passionate yearning

13. Those hearts have been hardened
And those hands made gentle

14. I am preoccupied with loving them
And forget her who is called a distraction

15. An uncouth woman who when she sees young men
Becomes ugly though she was beautiful

16. Sometimes she acts insane
So you see her virtues as faults

17. How strange is the coolness of her singing
And the wretchedness of her song

18. Why is it not like the warbling
That excites and kindles the joints?

19. Why did she not refine what was created
For the makers of fine combs?

20. Rather she cut the tresses that were made
For the bee-gums hived with bees

21. What means will he waste
Wooing her with messages and poems?

22. But his lust only loves
Those who are already pregnant

23. She swore never to be counted
Among the chaste and virtuous

24. Do you think, o Salama, you will be safe
If counted among the deviant?

25. You who have endured for so long
What no other lover could bear?

26. You were short but became
Taller than the tallest through them

27. Do not be alone with a distraction
Lest she be ready for you

28. She whom you are infatuated with
Neglects religious duties and supererogatory prayers

29. They say she is promiscuous
But I say she is only flirtatious

30. But I see you love her
With the love of problems for problems

31. I have made her like you in the coolness of her tools
Or in the heat of her shallowness

32. How much fault I have concealed
That appeared in you but was hidden

33. I stood up to adversaries for you
With the stance of a disputant engaging in debate

34. They said your friend is a master
Obvious in wisdom, not stagnant

35. Evidence grew against you
More conspicuous than pounding hail

36. And many a fault became clear
Through evidence and proofs

37. They spoke truly and did not lie against you
And I did not dispute or contend

38. I know well you are not
Faulted except as a fighter in battle

39. You still remain easy prey
Alone under the arches

40. And if you pretend to be devout with a whore
You have purposes known to her habitués

41. You pretend to deceive us but your matter is clear
With obvious marks

42. You turned from drum to lute
And you are but a drum yourself

43. Would that you were a lute! You are
Of the vile outcasts

44. And you dyed your effeminacy with pretence
While immorality flourishes unchecked

45. Like her who exposes her belly
While the udder is full

46. The lovers peel off their clothes
While you are an impudent wretch

47. How can they join with you - never!
Even if they remained without a companion

48. You who surpassed mankind
In ugliness, with feet distorted and twisted

49. And you penetrate without covering
Either the singing girls or the beardless boys

50. So why does passion grant
Only the beautiful, the flatterers?

51. They witnessed you riding
Camels with ornate, embroidered coverings

52. Seeking to correct your deviation
Like a drunken man tilting

53. So they saw in you a horseman
Who attacks in war but does not fight

54. I see your singing in gatherings
Is like your reputation in assemblies

55. I see you prancing there
Deeming yourself a stallion

56. I see you as a horseman
When in truth you are a footman there

57. I see you highly placed
When in truth you are lowly there

58. I see you doing good
Considered the most astray of workers

59. You have taken care of an old crone's whelps
Born without a father

60. She birthed them without your presence
O man of merit and sublime traits

61. So too the generous son of the generous
Supports the orphans of the tribes

62. Go away! After her you are
A cave for the orphaned and the widowed

63. I swear you are an ignoramus
And the practitioner of this is an ignoramus

64. Do you support, woe to you, brothers
Not of your father while oblivious?

65. I am filled with every suspicion
By your feminine traits

66. Your elder was courageous
A hero, so why are you not valiant?

67. I reckon your mother dressed up lies as truth
And cheated the wretched elder unawares

68. Take it as a greeting extended
To one who meets the sneezes of others with "God bless you"

69. O crowd of fools and
Rebels of darkened minds

70. I warned you before the shame
That you now see in the tremors