أَياO مَلِكَking النَّحْوِgrammar والحاءُand the letter ḥāʾ مِنْof
أَيا مَلِكَ النَّحْوِ والحاءُ مِنْ
تَهَجِّيهِits spelling منfrom تَحتbelow قدalready أعْجَمُوهاthey dotted it
تَهَجِّيهِ من تَحت قد أعْجَمُوها
O king of grammar—the letter ḥāʾ in
O king of grammar, the haa from its articulation
its spelling they have dotted underneath.
Beneath it they made guttural, has come to us
أتاناhas reached us قياسُكَyour analogy هذاthis الذيwhich
أتانا قياسُكَ هذا الذي
يُعَجِّمُobscures أشياءَthings قدalready أَعْرَبُوهَاthey made them clear
يُعَجِّمُ أشياءَ قد أَعْرَبُوهَا
This analogy of yours has reached us, which
Your analogy, which makes guttural
obscures things they had made clear.
Things they had made plain
ولمّاand when تصنَّعتyou put on airs فيregarding العاصَويal-ʿĀṣawī
ولمّا تصنَّعت في العاصَوي
غداbecame وجْهُthe face جَهْلِكَyour ignorance فيهin it وُجُوهَاfaces
غدا وجْهُ جَهْلِكَ فيه وُجُوهَا
And when you put on airs over ‘al-ʿĀṣawī,’
And when you pretended ignorance of Al-Aswad
the face of your ignorance in it became many faces.
Tomorrow the face of your ignorance will show its faces
وقالواand they said قَفاbehind الشيخthe shaykh إنّindeed المُلُوthe kings (continued)
وقالوا قَفا الشيخ إنّ المُلُو
كَcompletion of ‘the kings’ إذاwhen دَخَلُواthey enter قريةًa town أَفْسَدُوهَاthey ruin it
كَ إذا دَخَلُوا قريةً أَفْسَدُوهَا
And behind the shaykh’s back they said, ‘Indeed, kings,
And they said, the sheikh has perished, indeed when the kings
when they enter a town, lay it waste.’
Enter a town, they ruin it
Sol 6.1