إِن تَكُ خالَنا فَقُبِّحتَ خالاً

فَأَنتَ الخالُ تَنقُصُ لاتَزيدُ

If you are far from us, you are blamed for the distance,

Yet you are the one far away, you cannot get any closer.

فَيَوماً في مُزَينَةَ أَنتَ حُرٌّ

وَيَوماً أَنتَ محتِداكَ العَبيدُ

One day you walk free in all your finery,

Another day slaves deride and mock you.

أَحَقُ الناسِ أَن يَلقى هَواناً

وَيُؤكَلَ مالُهُ العَبدُ الطَريدُ

Is it right that people should suffer such disgrace -

That the outcast slave should seize and eat their wealth?