1. It pleased me in my soul that I
Know how others live and how I live

2. Whenever ad-Duqayshi rebukes me
I have excuses that rebuke ad-Duqayshi

3. With protests whose meanings do not agree with me
How can the agreement of rags and tatters agree?

4. Relying in my struggle on an arrow
Reckless in struggle, how ugly recklessness is

5. And the debater without knowledge
Is like the warrior without an army

6. With strange implausible speech
To a mind with intellect, so what about Quraysh?