1. When the fool from Kufa recited to us
We said to him "Plague and pestilence!"
١. لَمّا تَبَدّى الكُوفيُّ يُنْشِدُنا
قُلْنا لَهُ طَعْنَةً وطاعونا
2. "Gather, O idiot, for us
Your poetry in its frigidity and winter"
٢. تَجْمَعُ يا أَحْمَقَ العِبادِ لَنا
شِعْرَكَ في بَرْدِهِ وكانونا