1. لائمي في قمرٍ بتُّ له

    ساجداً إذ لاح في ليل الشَّعَرْ

    O you who reproach me for a moon before whom I spent the night

    prostrate, when he shone in the night of hair:

  2. لك دينٌ ولناسٍ غيرُهُ

    ولبعضِ الناسِ أديانٌ أُخَرْ

    You have a faith, and some people have another,

    and some people have other faiths.

  3. وكما للشمس قومٌ سَجدُوا

    فكذا يسجدُ قومٌ للقمَرْ

    And just as some people prostrated themselves before the sun,

    so do some people prostrate themselves before the moon.