قال ابن معصار جواب الصنو من مسيب

على القصيد التي جت من قدا جوله

Ibn Mua'sar answered the Poetry of Sin'an ibn Musayyib

About the poem that came from Qudaa Jawwalah

وطبعنا يا حضور بالشعر ما نتعب

ولا نقول بالغنا والزمر والهجله

And our nature, O presence, is not to tire of poetry

Nor do we speak of singing, music and trilling

ما عندنا الا رصاص أحمى من المكرب

وطعن يتعوذوا من وقعه القبله

We have only bullets hotter than flames

And stabbing from which the Qiblah seeks protection

ليتك ترى لقينا اصحاب عبد الرب

في باب يفرس وكان ياقوت في جبله

If only you could see us meeting the people of Abd al-Rab

In the Bab Ifras gate which was ruby in its mountain

قال لك غزينا عليهم طلعت الكوكب

ولا دروا غير واحنا فوقهم شعله

He said we raided them, planets appeared

And they did not know except us above them a flame

واسم الله اليوم نطرح للديث مضرب

نحط منهم يجي فوق اربعين كعله

By God’s name today we strike with clubs

We bring down more than forty like leather skins

أظن الأول بقى يهرب إلى شرعب

واحنا بالاعصى بنسعا بعدهم حمله

I think the first remains fleeing to clefts

While we with staffs drive them like a camel herd

وارجع نعاود وقد كلين يتسلحب

وناس وصل واطر حراقد من الزبله

We return and repeat when they are dragging away

And people arrived and the beds were discarded refuse

وانا توكلت لك واخرج رباعي حب

والله نعصد ونتعشى ذك الليله

And I relied on You and went out with a beloved quatrain

By God we will block and have supper this night

والصبح نرجع على ما احنا إلى المحرب

نجي وقد نصفهم محتاز في حله

And in the morning we will return to the battlefield

We will come and half of them confused in their wrappings

نحتاج نطرح ونتوالى على ملعب

ما بيننا احنا وصالح صاحب الكوله

We need to strike them down and continue upon the field

None between us, we and Salih the owner of the fortress

ولا درينا العشى إلا بصوت يشعب

من عندهم قلت والله قد هنا عكله

We did not know the evening meal except by the call to prayer

Which echoes from their side, I said by God here is food

فلا يغرك تعس صاحب بلاد ارحب

هو غريز بزب وبعد ايطرح الشمله

So let not the miserable one of wide lands deceive you

He is an ape with a flaccid penis after losing his turban

وتبسره يوم يدندل سيرة المقطب

تقول ذا عسكري يحرب على عزله

And when you see him with the demeanor of one devout

You would say this is a soldier fighting alone

واحنا الذي في الوغى والحرب ما نتعب

ولا ترانا نميل في محرب الدوله

While we are the ones in the tumult and war not tiring

Nor do you see us waver in the battle of nations