سأَغلُبُ والسماءِ وَمَن بَناها

قطاة مُزاحمٍ وَمَن انتحاها

I will overcome, and the sky and He who built it

An intruding tomcat and He who created him

قطاة مزاحمٍ وأبي المثنّى

على خَرزِيَّةٍ صَلِبٍ شواها

An intruding tomcat and my father Al-Muthanna

On a stiff bracelet that adorned it

غَدَت كالقَطرَةِ السَفواءِ تَهوى

أَمامَ مجَلجِلٍ زَجِلٍ نَفاها

It fell like a murky droplet

Before the rumbling and grunting that dismissed it

تَكَفَّأُ كَالجمانَةِ لا تُبالي

أَبالمَوماةِ أَضحَت أَم سواها

I recoiled like an ostrich, not caring

Whether it died or something else killed it

نَبَت مِنها العَجيزَةُ فاحزأَلَّت

وَنَبَّسَ للتَفَتُّلِ مِنكَباها

The old woman sprouted from it, so she frowned

And it withered for the picker

كأنَّ كعوبَها أَطرافُ نَبلٍ

كساها الرازقيَّةَ من كساها

As if her ankles were arrowheads

The Sustainer clothed her from His clothes