إِلى حَيث أَلقَت رَحلها أُم قشعم

توجه فَما في الناس مِن متدم

To where Umm Qushaym pitched her tent, make your way

And bid the people no farewell or end-of-season goodbye

وَوَدع وَفارق أَرض مَصر وَلا تَعُد

فَهَذا فراق خَير عيد وَمَوسم

Part from Egypt's land and do not return

For this is a better parting than a feast or season

وَما وَاحد في الناس يُبدي تَلَفاً

عَلَيكَ وَلَكن زودك بِأَسهُم

No one among the people shows you any destruction

Yet they provisioned you with their arrows

وَلا تغترر بِالناس عِندَ وَداعهم

فَهُم أُمم راعوا المَودة بِالفَم

Do not be fooled by people's farewells

They are nations who showed affection only outwardly

وَفَيهم قُلوب أَفعمت بِكَراهة

لِأَنك فيهُم كُنت أَول أَرقَم

In their mouths are hearts filled with hatred

Because you among them were the first mark

وَدَمعهمو إِذ سالَ ماء قُلوبهم

وَكُل إِناء فاضَ عِندَ تَفعم

And their tears, when they flowed like the water of their hearts

Each vessel overflowed when stirred

وَما سرهم إِلا بِعادك عَنهمو

فَنالوا مِن العَليا عَظيم التَقَدُم

And their secret was only your absence from them

Thus they attained the utmost advancement

وَما دُمت فيهم فَالعَذاب مُحيطهم

وَلَكنهم بَعدَ النَوى في تَنعم

While you remained among them, torment encompassed them

But after intention, they are in bliss

جَنحت إِلى باريس تَبغي تَقُدماً

وَلَكن بانجاز إِلى الطُرق تَنتَمي

You sailed to Paris seeking progress

Yet in accomplishing the paths you conform to

وَتِلكَ بداء عز في مَصر طبه

فَسافَرت باريساً لِطب وَمَغنَم

That is the iniquity of honor in Egypt cured

So you traveled Paris-ward for medicine and spoils

وَباريس لَما أَن رَأَتك لَقَد بَكَت

قُدومك فيها كانَ أَول مأتم

When Paris saw you she wept

For your arrival in her was the first calamity

فَيا وَيلَها حل العَذاب بِأَهلِها

وَسَوف يَعم الجيل بَعدَ التَعَلُم

Oh woe to her people, torment befell them

And ignorance will encompass the generation after learning

فَأَنتَ أَبو جَهل وَجَبلك مورث

وَمَن خالف الآباء في الجَهل يَظلم

You are Abu Jahl and your nature inherited

And whoever differs from their fathers in ignorance wrongs himself

وَرثت مِن الآباء كُل وَضيعة

وَفقت عَلَيهُم في الخَنا وَالمَحرم

You inherited from your forefathers every disgrace

And surpassed them in wickedness and prohibition

وَمَهما يَكُن عِند امرئ مِن خَليقة

وَإِن خالَها تَخفي عَلى الناس تَعلم

However much natural disposition a man may have

And if he differs from it, it is hidden from people, he knows

وَلا تَنتَظر نَبل المَعالي برحلة

فَجفن المَعالي عَن وُجودك قَد عَمى

Do not expect the nobility of high moral character from a journey

For the eyelids of high moral character toward your existence are blind

وَمَسعاك في نَيل المَعالي مَخيب

وَإِن جَلت في الدُنيا فَغَير معظم

And your hearing the attainment of high moral character is disappointing

And however prominent in the world you are, you are not respected

وَفيكَ خِصال لَو تُبدي قَلبلها

عَلى العَذب صارَ العَذب صابَ بن عَلقم

In you are traits, if you disclosed a few

The sweet would become like Zabn Alqum

وَلَو كانَ مَكتوب مِن اسمك أَحرُفاً

عَلى المسك صار المسك غَير مقوم

And if letters of your name were written

Musk would become unsavory

وَفي اسمك مَأوى السُم لَو نَطقت بِهِ

جَميع الوَرى ماتَت عَلى غَير مَأتم

In your name lies the shelter of poison, if you uttered it

All creation would die without funeral

وَآدم لَو يَدري بِأَنك في الوَرى

سَتَبقى لا ودى الخصينتين بِمعدم

And if Adam knew that you would remain in existence

He would have divorced Eve irrevocably

وَطَلق حَواء طَلاقاً مثلثاً

وَهَذا طَلاق وَاجب لَم يَحرم

For that is an obligatory divorce not prohibited

Because you made him through you disobedient

لِأَنك قَد صَيرته بِكَ عاصِياً

وَصَيَرت إِبليساً عَدواً لِآدم

And Satan an enemy of Adam

And stingy with prostration, for he

وَصارَ بَخيلاً بِالسُجود لِأَنَّهُ

رَآك بِمأواهم بِأَمر محتم

Saw you in their dwelling by decree

In you lies the lewdness of the Time of Ignorance that never

وَفيكَ سَفاح الجاهِلية لَم يَزَل

لَهُ لبد أَظفاره لَم تقلم

Ceased to have claws that were not clipped

I invoke upon you the curse of God for as long as He is Capable

لَعَنت بِلَعن اللَه ما دامَ قادِراً

وَمُتَصِفاً دُنيا وَأُخرى بِمنعم

And Characterizer of the life of this world and the next with blessing

Whoever is pleased that you should love him

وَمَن كانَ يَرضي أَن تَكون محبه

يَدرس بِأَنياب وَيوطأ بِمنسم

Will be gored by fangs and trampled by hooves

You have not ceased corrupting the land when you travel

فَلا زِلت بِالضَراء في الأَرض مُفسِداً

لَكَ الشَر مَهما سِرت أَعظَم تَوأم

For you evil is greatest whenever you are concealed

And you have not ceased to be blamed, having left Egypt

وَلا زِلت مَذموماً لِمَصر مُفارِقاً

وَفي غَيرِها لا زِلت غَير مُكرم

And in other than it, you have not ceased to be disrespected

May God not return you to Egypt again

وَلا رَدَكَ اللَه إِلَيَ مَصر تانِياً

وَقَد ذُقت مِن بَحر الرَدى شَر مطعم

Since you have tasted the bitterest flavor from the sea of harm

And may your blameworthy action remain chronicled

وَدامَ لَكَ الفعل الذَميم مُؤرِخاً

إِلَيكَ عَذاب وافر في جَهَنَم

To you abundant torment in Hellfire