وَأَخٍ لَنا بَعَثَ الطَلاقَ أَلِيَّةً

لَأُعَلِّلَنَّ بِهَذِهِ الخُرطومِ

A brother of ours dispatched divorce

A friend of ours staked divorce upon an oath,

I will explain with this trunk

That I must surely soothe my spirit with this wine;

فَجَعَلتُ رَدّي عِرسَهُ كَفّارَةً

عَن شُربِها وَشَرِبتُ غَيرَ أَثيمِ

So I made my refusal his wedding present

So I made the restoring of his wife my expiation

For drinking it, while I drank with no blame

For the draught, and thus I drank—devoid of sin.