1. Tuhayya awoke as chaste as an untouched virgin
After the priest a torrent of insults went out of control

2. O Yahya, does an impoverished, dying soul like me
Still have a wish left in your life to fulfill?

3. Because of her foolishness, Tuhayya is finished with me
My biting sarcasm rains down on her without fail

4. People of Tuhayy, the Farazdaq has drowned, know this well
Then he threw himself into the sea from atop a cliff

5. Who was it, O Tuhayya, that would stop your women
Or who herds behind the cattle left out to graze?

6. The one you and your father know is Malik
And the truth brands absurdities as false

7. Our virtues exceed other virtues by far
Our ignorance surpasses the ignorance of the ignorant