مديدُ الزحاف ِسريعُ الخلافِ

مديدُ الزحاف ِسريعُ الخلافِ

بسيطُ الخرافِ خفيفُ طويلُ

بسيطُ الخرافِ خفيفُ طويلُ

Long is his crawl, swift his disagreement;

Long zihaf, rapid difference

Expansive in drivel, flighty and tall;

Simple delusion, light long

على جهله بضروب العروضِ

على جهله بضروب العروضِ

لكلِّ قبيحٍ فعولٌ فعولُ

لكلِّ قبيحٍ فعولٌ فعولُ

Despite his ignorance of the patterns of prosody,

In his ignorance of prosody genres

For every vile deed, he is a doer, a doer.

For every ugly deed, fu'ulun fu'ul