1. They said Abu Hafs criticized you and your beard
So I said they did not do me justice in what they did

2. Let one of the two withdraw, then see
My war when its flames are unleashed

3. Cowardice refused that he sings alone
And that he meets other than a helpless weakling

4. My beard would not have been his peer
If not for the aid it brought him

5. So tell him for me to shave it off and be a man
And if the barber's wage strains him