1. If Quraysh are one day ashamed of your ancestry,
And a nobleman claims you, then you are his kinsman,
١. إِذا نُسِبَت يَوماً قُرَيشٌ نَفَتكُمُ
وَإِن تَنتَسِب شِجعٌ فَأَنتَ نَسيبُها
2. She who cast you from beneath her legs,
While still wet from her womb, is a chewer of rags.
٢. وَإِنَّ التي ألقَتكَ مِن تَحتِ رِجلِها
وَليداً لَمَهجانُ الغِذاءِ خَبُوبُها
3. Your mother is an Abyssinian from Qasr,
Whose mother is a dark-skinned Samarra, -
٣. وَأُمُّكَ مِن قسرٍ حُباشَةُ أُمِّها
لسَمراءُ فَهمِ آسِنُ البَولِ طيبُها