1. أبا منذرٍ بالله إلا صدقتني

    علامَ ولمْ خَنَّثتني يا أخا النضرِ

    Abu Mundhir, by God, tell me the truth:

    On what grounds, and why, did you call me effeminate, O brother of al-Nadr?

  2. أذمَّتْ لقائي حُرمةٌ لك نِكتُها

    فلم أشفِها أمْ قلتَ ما قلتَ بالحزْر

    Did a woman of yours whom I fucked speak ill of our encounter,

    because I failed to satisfy her, or did you say what you said by guesswork?

  3. فكيف وألحاظي حِدادٌ كأنها

    نِصالٌ وألفاظي أشدُّ من الصخر

    How, then, when my glances are sharp, as though they were

    blades, and my words are harder than rock?

  4. وكيف ولي في كل عضوٍ ومَفْصِلٍ

    وجارحة قلبان شهمان من جمر

    And how, when I have, in every organ and joint

    and limb, two valiant hearts of glowing embers?

  5. ولو عزمتْ نفسي على قطع لُجّةٍ

    من البحرِ سبحاً ما نكَلْتُ عن البحرِ

    And were my soul to resolve to cross a deep expanse

    of the sea by swimming, I would not recoil from the sea.

  6. ولو مسّ ثوبي ثوبَ أمك مسّةً

    لأولدها خمسين مثلَكَ في شهر

    And were my garment to touch your mother's garment once,

    it would make her bear fifty like you in a month.

  7. فأيَّةُ آياتي وأيُّ أدلّتي

    تدل على التخنيث يا ابن أبي عمرو

    Which of my signs, then, and which of my proofs

    point to effeminacy, O son of Abu Amr?

  8. بعينَيْ ربوخٍ في استها أيرُ نائكٍ

    نظرت ولم تنظر بناظرتَيْ صقر

    With the eyes of a swooning woman, a fucker's cock in her arse,

    you looked, and not with a falcon's two eyes.

  9. أراك خلافَ الحقِّ رأيٌ بمثله

    كفرتَ وعلّقت الصليب على النحر

    A judgment made you see the opposite of truth; through one like it

    you disbelieved and hung the cross upon your chest.

  10. وما كان من لا يقدرُ اللَهَ قدرَهُ

    ويشفعُهُ بابنٍ ليقدرني قدري

    Nor could one who fails to give God His due

    and pairs Him with a son give me my due.

  11. فإن كنتَ في ريب ولم تر آيةً

    تبيِّنُ ما قد لبَّس الشك من أمري

    So if you are in doubt and have seen no sign

    that makes clear what doubt has obscured about me,

  12. فجرّبْ على إحدى بناتك فحلتي

    متى شئت فالتجريب أثلج للصدر

    then test my virility on one of your daughters

    whenever you wish, for testing brings greater coolness to the breast.

  13. فلو لقيتْني بِكْرهنَّ لقاءةً

    لما نسيت أيري إلى آخر الدهر

    For if the virgin among them met me just once,

    she would not forget my cock until the end of time.