1. O Ali, or rather O Abu al-Hasan who
Charmed the graceful beauty

2. Fear Allah, you are the poet of Qays
Do not be a stain upon poets

3. Verily your brothers staying overnight
Came for adultery, not for singing

4. You are blind while the adulterers have
Forbidden pleasures hidden from the seeing

5. You listen to conversation but your knowledge
Of winking, gesturing, ogling eyes

6. Taking trysts and grasping hands for the
Rendezvous is deficient, gone awry

7. By my life, they plotted their sin at dusk
And came with the vilest immorality

8. No heed for sanctity of love, no thought
Of remembered brotherhood have they

9. They cut off their affair while you're a donkey
Honored for stupidity and ignorance