يُمَلِّؤني وَعظاً هُزَالُ بِلاَلِ

واطعامُه للَّحمِ غيرَ حَلالِ

The scrawny Bilal fills me with his preaching,

Though to eat meat he calls unlawful.

وما قَالَه اللَّوَّ الذي كَبشهُ

لقد ضَلَّ ذاكَ الكبشُ أيَّ ضَلالِ

What the Shepherd said of the ram he slaughtered—

Indeed that ram went mightily astray!

وليس له إلا شهادةٌ صِبيَةٍ

صِغَارٍ بَنَاتٍ مَا لَهُنَّ ولا لِي

He can offer only a child's testimony,

Little girls, nothing to do with me!