1. The cursed home of the deformed Suleiman
Was not a home for Muslims, nor Jews, nor Christians

2. They are the worst dregs that debauchery begat
A tomcat conceived of the seed of drunkards

3. We were compelled to dwell therein and we
Established our dwellings upon its wastelands

4. Our honor was violated therein so we
Turned away fleeing

5. We did not gain victory and the free man
Does not hope for triumph from the ignoble

6. The villages of Aleppo are more
Beloved to me than dwelling in them

7. It borders you, O Ghawth, so have you
Praised it for its vicinity?

8. It has brought you shame, O Ghawth
In being near it, and that suffices as dishonor

9. Branded by inauspiciousness, may its
Inauspiciousness intensify and spread

10. If it were personified, it would be
personified none other than as perfidy

11. It pained Abu Hafs and whomsoever
Its hands did not enervate, it weakened

12. After it took his brother
And his son, a painful taking

13. O Lord, protect Abu Ali wherever
He settled and wherever he traveled

14. And pour upon its regions
Famine, and destroy it with destruction