ياO أيهاyou السائلthe one asking عنabout دينناour religion
يا أيها السائل عن ديننا
قدindeed ذهبَhave gone away المردانُthe beardless youths بالدينِwith religion
قد ذهبَ المردانُ بالدينِ
O you who ask about our religion,
O you who ask about our religion
O you who asks about our religion,
The beardless youths have indeed carried religion away.
The libertines have done away with religion
The beardless youths have run off with the faith,
نحنwe أُناسٌpeople حسَنٌgood دينناour religion
نحن أُناسٌ حسَنٌ ديننا
نكسّرُwe break القُثاءthe cucumbers فيin التينِthe figs
نكسّرُ القُثاء في التينِ
We are people whose religion is good:
We are good people in our religion
We are a people whose creed is agreeable,
We break cucumbers in figs.
We break the dried breadfruit into the mudbricks
We break the cucumber into the figs,
تحسبُهاyou would think it منfrom لينهاits softness خزّةa piece of silk-and-wool cloth
تحسبُها من لينها خزّة
أوor فنَكاًa fennec pelt منfrom فنَكِthe fennecs of الصينِChina
أو فنَكاً من فنَكِ الصينِ
From its softness, you would think it silk-and-wool cloth,
You think it soft from its tenderness
You would think it, for its softness, to be silk,
Or a fennec pelt from the fennecs of China.
Or Chinese porcelain from Chinese porcelain
Or the fennec fur of China.
Sol 6.1