1. إِختِلافٌ قَد عَمَّنا في اِعتِقادٍ

    وَصَلاةٍ لِرَبِّنا وَطُهورِ

    Disagreement has spread among us in belief,

    and prayer to our Lord, and purification.

  2. وَنِساءٌ مّهورَةٌ في البَرايا

    وَسَبايا سيقَت بِغَيرِ مُهورِ

    And among humankind are women given dowers,

    and captive women led away without dowers.

  3. وَرَأَيتُ الحِمامَ يَأتي عَلى العا

    لَمِ مِن قاهِرٍ وَمِن مَقهورِ

    And I have seen death come upon the

    world—conqueror and conquered alike.

  4. وَاِدَّعوا لِل مُعَمِّرينَ أُموراً

    لَستُ أَدري ما هُنَّ في المَشهورِ

    And they have made claims about the long-lived,

    which I do not know what to make of in common report.

  5. أَتَراهُم فيما تَقَضّى مِنَ الأَيّ

    امِ عَدّوا سَنيِّهُم بِالشُهورِ

    Do you think they, in bygone

    days, counted their years by months?

  6. كُلَّما لاحَ لِلعُيونِ هِلالٌ

    كانَ حَولاً لَدَيهِمُ في الدُهورِ

    Whenever a crescent appeared to the eyes,

    it was a year to them throughout the ages.

  7. هَكَذا يَنبَغي وَإِلّا فَإِنَّ ال

    عَقلَ يُثنى في حالَةِ المَبهورِ

    Thus it must be; otherwise the

    mind is bent into a state of bewilderment.

  8. حُمَّلوا المُثَقِلاتِ ثُمَّتَ أَضحى

    في بُطونِ الأجداثِ بالي الظُهورِ

    They were laden with heavy burdens; then they lay

    in the bellies of graves, their backs worn away.