أَيا مَلِكَ النَّحْوِ والحاءُ مِنْ

تَهَجِّيهِ من تَحت قد أعْجَمُوها

O king of grammar, the haa from its articulation

Beneath it they made guttural, has come to us

أتانا قياسُكَ هذا الذي

يُعَجِّمُ أشياءَ قد أَعْرَبُوهَا

Your analogy, which makes guttural

Things they had made plain

ولمّا تصنَّعت في العاصَوي

غدا وجْهُ جَهْلِكَ فيه وُجُوهَا

And when you pretended ignorance of Al-Aswad

Tomorrow the face of your ignorance will show its faces

وقالوا قَفا الشيخ إنّ المُلُو

كَ إذا دَخَلُوا قريةً أَفْسَدُوهَا

And they said, the sheikh has perished, indeed when the kings

Enter a town, they ruin it