1. أتينا عريش الرمل في وقت حره

    فقلنا له تبت يداك أبا لهب

    We came to Arish of the sands when it was hot.

    So we said to it, “May your hands perish, O Abu Lahab!”

  2. وكم أثلةٍ لا ظل فيها ولا جنى

    يقابلنا منها بحمالةِ الحطب

    And how many a tamarisk has neither shade nor fruit;

    From among them it greets us with the bearer of firewood.