1. I witnessed one morn the foes of Bani Sulaym
With faces changed by your decrees, not made black.

2. You judged by precedent and ruled with equity,
Not inheriting the rule from afar.

3. When the reed-pipe is squeezed, my life bears me witness,
Your reed-pipe is best when put under duress.

4. If the expert squeezes it, it recoils in disdain,
Scornful of rising to meet his address.

5. It defends the flesh of the Banu, though they
Lie beneath the soil, Abu al-Walid!

6. For the Master, two hundred lashes there are
And for tearing out the eyebrows and cheeks.

7. If He rewards them with the daughters of Chosroes,
Can the servile find any increase?

8. By which right, then, can the servile claim
To marry the slave born to the slave?