1. لِلَّهِ دَرُّ نَزيهِ الدينِ مِن رَجُلٍ

    ما رَأيُهُ في الرَزايا واهِنٌ أَفِنُ

    God bless Nazih al-Din—what a man!

    His judgment in calamities is neither weak nor foolish.

  2. مازالَ يَسقي بِنَوءِ الدَلوِ صاحِبَهُ

    حَتّى اِنثَنى وَهوَ لا عَينٌ وَلا أُذُنُ

    He kept drenching his companion with the Bucket's rains,

    until he turned back with neither eye nor ear.

  3. فَقُلتُ أَدعو سُلَيمانَ الدَعِيَّ وَقَد

    حَلَّت مِنَ النَعلِ في أَوداجِهِ مِحَنُ

    Then I said, calling out to Sulayman the bastard, when

    woes from the sandal had befallen his jugular veins:

  4. جَهلاً علينا وَجُبناً عَن عَدوكُم

    لَبِئسَتِ الخَلَّتانِ الجَهلُ وَالجُبُنُ

    Insolence toward us, yet cowardice before your enemy—

    wretched indeed are the two traits: insolence and cowardice!