1. God knows who oppresses people, yet pretends otherwise
You are more deserving and fitting of power than he

2. The gourd once had a horn, but now
Its horn pales next to yours

3. He whose crown is like yours
Let his court rival Kisra's

4. Long live you, son of Hurayth
For through you glory is made sublime

5. Had you eased your grip on power you'd not have shone so bright
Yet you are weighty, O mound of Muhriyy!

6. You cast off all shame
And show a face like your mother Sakra's

7. The worst water is what he squeezed in the worst of loins
The worst stallion he bred in the worst of pastures

8. He mingled with riffraff in his father's backbone
So riffraff flowed from him through every channel

9. He claims poetry though he is dull and ignorant
Draped in borrowed garb and affectation

10. Blemished in nature, puffed up
With a force not even al-Shawashari could capture