عَطاؤكُمُ لِلضارِبينَ رِقابُكُم

وَنُدعى إِذا ما كانَ حَزُّ الكَراكِرِ

Your necks offered to the executioner’s blade

And we are called when the wine pitcher circulates

أَنَحنُ أَخوكم في المَضيقِ وَسَهمُنا

إِذا ما قَسَمتُم في الخِطاءِ الأَصاغِرِ

Are we not your brethren in times of distress? Our arrows

Share your quiver when you divide the lesser sins

وَثَديكُمُ الأَدنى إِذا ما سَأَلتُمُ

وَنُلقى بِثَدىٍ حينَ نَسألُ باسِرِ

Your left breast when asked is ours to suckle

While our right breast is cast aside when we ask sustenance

وان كانَ فينا الذَنبُ في الناسِ مِثلُهُ

أُخِذنا بِهِ مِن قَبلِ ناهٍ وَآمِرِ

If we are guilty of sins similar to all people

We would have been reproached by the blamer and the forbidder

وان جاءَكُم مِنّا غَريبٌ بأَرضِكُم

لَويتم لَهُ يَوماً جُنوبَ المَناخِرِ

And if a stranger from us comes to your lands

You turn your backs the whole day to him

فَهَل يَفعَلُ الأَعداءُ إِلّا كَفِعلِكُم

هَوانَ السَراةِ واِبتِغاءَ العَواثِرِ

Do enemies act except as you have acted?

Demeaning the noble and seeking out their flaws

وَغَيَّرَ نَفسي عَنكُم ما فَعَلتُمُ

وَذِكرُ هَوانٍ مِنكمُ مُتَظاهِرِ

And your actions have turned my soul away from you

The memory of your disgrace is overwhelming

جَفاؤكمُ مَن عالجَ الحَربَ عَنكمُ

وَاعداؤكم مِن بين جابٍ وَعاشِرِ

Your aloofness to one who protected your wars

And your enmity from both settler and nomad alike

فَلا تَسأَلوني عَن هَوايَ وَودِّكُم

وَقل في فُؤادٍ قَد تَوجَّهَ نافِرِ

So ask me no longer about your love and friendship

Say this to a heart that has turned away in disdain