قُل للسريّ أَبي قَيسٍ أَتوعِدُنا

وَدارُنا اصبحت مِن دارِكُم صَدَدا

Tell the secretive Abu Qais, do you threaten us

Say to the noble Abu Qays: Do you threaten us,

While our home has become separated from your homes

While our dwelling has become so close to yours?

أَبا الوَليد أمَا وَاللَهِ لَو عَمِلَت

فيكَ الشَمولُ لما حَرَّمتَها أَبَدا

Abu al-Walid, by God if you had done

O Abu al-Walid, by God, had it taken effect

What would make you comprehensive, you would have never forbidden it forever

Within you—the chilled wine—you would never have forbidden it,

وَلا نَسيتَ حُميّاها ولذَّتِها

وَلا عَدلتَ بِها مالاً وَلا وَلَدا

Nor would you have forgotten its ardors and pleasures

Nor would you have forgotten its fiery rush and its delight,

Nor equated it with money or children

Nor would you have exchanged it for wealth or children.

أَما رأيتَ أَخا الإِجمالِ مُنجدِلاً

اذا تَعلّى عَلى كُرسِّيهِ سَجَدا

Have you not seen the brother of Ijmal, unkempt

Have you not seen the master of elegance laid flat,

When he rises on his throne, bowing down

Who, when he ascends his chair, bows down in prostration?