سوءةً بالعيونِ أنتَ احتنكتَ النا

سوءةً بالعيونِ أنتَ احتنكتَ النا

سَ غيظاً عليهمُ أجمعينا

سَ غيظاً عليهمُ أجمعينا

A disgrace to the eyes! You have subjugated the peo-

With evil in your eyes, you disdained to bow down

A visible disgrace, you have bridled mankind like beasts, / In your consuming rage against them all.

ple, in rage against them all.

In anger against them all

You went astray, though you once bowed in ancient times, / And parted ways with the flower of the worshippers.

تهتَ لمّا سجدتَ في سالفٍ

تهتَ لمّا سجدتَ في سالفٍ

وفارقتَ زهرةَ الساجدينا

وفارقتَ زهرةَ الساجدينا

You grew arrogant when you prostrated in bygone days,

You went astray when you refused to prostrate

When you declared, "I cannot bear to prostrate / Before a form You have created, Lord, from clay,"

And parted from the flower of those who prostrate,

And left the garden of the prostrated ones

Driven by envy—for you were shaped from smokeless fire— / Of him who was ordained the master of the worlds.

عندما قلتَ لا أطيق سجوداً

عندما قلتَ لا أطيق سجوداً

لمثالٍ خلقتهُ ربُّ طينا

لمثالٍ خلقتهُ ربُّ طينا

When you said, “I cannot bear to prostrate myself

When you said you cannot bear to bow

You failed in noble leadership, striving now / To drag the adulterers and sodomites behind you.

Before a figure you created, Lord, from clay,”

To an image that the Lord of mud created

حسداً إذ خُلقتَ من مارج النا

حسداً إذ خُلقتَ من مارج النا

رِ لمن كان سيّد العالمينا

رِ لمن كان سيّد العالمينا

Out of envy—since you were created from a flame of fi-

In envy, when you were created from fire

re—of him who was master of the worlds.

While he was the master of all worlds

ثم قصّرتَ في القيادةِ تسعى

ثم قصّرتَ في القيادةِ تسعى

يا مجرَّ الزناةِ واللايطينا

يا مجرَّ الزناةِ واللايطينا

Then you fell short in the pandering you pursue,

Then you fell short in leadership, you who guides

O you who drag along fornicators and sodomites!

The evildoers and those unrestrained