1. أَأَسلَمتَني لِلمَوتِ أُمُّكَ هابِلٌ

    وَأَنتَ دَلَنظى المَنكِبَينِ سَمينُ

    Have you abandoned me to death—may your mother be bereaved—

    while you are broad-shouldered and fat,

  2. خَميصٌ مِنَ الوُدِّ المُقَرَّبِ بَينَنا

    مِنَ الشُنءِ رابي القُصرَيَينِ بَطينُ

    lean in the close affection between us,

    but swollen at the lower ribs, potbellied with hatred?

  3. فَإِن كُنتَ قَد سالَمتَ دوني فَلا تُقِم

    بِدارٍ بِها بَيتُ الذَليلِ يَكونُ

    So if you have made peace without me, do not dwell

    in a land where the humiliated man's home stands.

  4. وَلا تَأمَنَنَّ الحَربَ إِنَّ اِشتِغارُها

    كَضَبَّةَ إِذ قالَ الحَديثُ شُجونُ

    And never feel safe from war, for it spreads

    as with Ḍabba when he said, “Talk has branches.”