أَرَدتَ إِهانَتي فَحَماكَ مِنّي

أَرَدتَ إِهانَتي فَحَماكَ مِنّي

قَضاءٌ فِيَّ كانَ لَهُ نَجوزُ

قَضاءٌ فِيَّ كانَ لَهُ نَجوزُ

You sought to humiliate me, yet you were shielded from me

You wished to humiliate me, but my fate protected me

by a decree concerning me that had come to pass.

A decree was made for me that could not be undone

وَجَدتَنِيَ اللُجَينَ أَوِ الثُرَيّا

وَجَدتَنِيَ اللُجَينَ أَوِ الثُرَيّا

وَتَصغيرُ المُصَغَّرِ لا يَجوزُ

وَتَصغيرُ المُصَغَّرِ لا يَجوزُ

You found me silver, or the Pleiades,

You found me either tranquil or aloof

and forming a diminutive of a diminutive is not allowed.

And belittling the belittled is not allowed

أَرى الفِتيانَ وَالفَتَياتِ جَمعاً

أَرى الفِتيانَ وَالفَتَياتِ جَمعاً

أَصابَتهُم بِشِرَّتَها العَجوزُ

أَصابَتهُم بِشِرَّتَها العَجوزُ

I see the young men and young women all together:

I see the young men and women together

the old woman has struck them with her fury.

Afflicted by the wickedness of the old hag