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You dressed up as desert Arabs, people of arrogance.

تشبهت بالأعراب أهل التعجرف

1. You dressed up as desert Arabs, people of arrogance.
Your pretense revealed the ugliness of your affectation.

١. تَشَبَّهتَ بالأعرابِ أهلِ التعَّجرُفِ
فدلَّ على دَعواكَ قُبحُ التكّلُّفِ

2. An Iraqi tongue, if you tried to bend it
into the Arabs' dialect, would not oblige.

٢. لسانٌ عِراقي إذا ما صَرَفتَه
الى لغةِ الأعرابِ لم يَتَصَرَّفِ

3. Though you've memorized the Arabs and their grammar,
you were one of those who recited Surat Yusuf.

٣. لئن كنتَ للأعرابِ والنحو حافِظاً
لقد كنتَ من قُرّاءِ سُورَةِ يُوسُفِ