1. Abu Bakr al-Huraithi has a protruding forehead
And he has two horns and a tail as well

2. So if he says that he is a non-Arab
Both his horns altogether say he lied

3. And if he says that he is an Arab
That claim is rejected and the Arabs are not pleased

4. And if he says that he is a poet
It is said, let this miserable one perish in agony

5. Do you not see that Ibn Huraith has no lineage
Do you think he came from eggs in the soil?

6. His mother hid his fathers from him
Thus the people denied his ancestry

7. The camel litter of Huraith has never stopped
Being mounted by all people for rides

8. You have an ugly face that I created
I do not see it countered except by a counter-ugly face

9. The body of al-Kashkhan proclaims it
Was conceived from the sperm of a thousand fathers

10. Every day you are ascribed a new ancestry
May God increase your suffering in this exertion

11. You do not stop correcting it
In hardship, occupation, and difficulties

12. You are not from the seed of one stallion
You are from every relative and stranger

13. He blamed my poetry while in his house
Is every fault, vice, and corruption

14. Your lineage has never been clear to him
How could it be when the roots in it are not wholesome?

15. I only insult his mother
Let him increase his anger above anger

16. And let him say what he wishes in insulting me
For my nature is abuse, not acquired

17. What is wrong with one whose ancestry is disparaged
And the critics of poetry from the literary people?

18. If he seeks my insulting his mother
He has gotten what he sought from me

19. Or is he boasting with Ibn ‘Iyad
By my life, in him is pride and merit

20. Do you not see in him a single blemish?
No, and the ancestry of Huraith is in genealogy

21. It is only his sister who mounted you long ago
Thus the pride of the despicable one is for this reason

22. How many troubles has she relieved for him
With al-‘Iyadi when the matter was grave

23. All of you, O family of Huraith, are a pack
May God curse Huraith and inscribe it