أَرى كُلَّ عودٍ نابِتاً في أَرومَةٍ

أَبى نَسَبُ العيدانِ أَن يَتَغَيَّرا

I see every branch growing in a meadow

Refusing the lineage of sticks to change

بَنو الصالِحينَ الصالِحونَ وَمَن يَكُن

لآِباءِ سوءٍ يَلقَهُم حَيثُ سَيَّرا

The righteous beget the righteous, and he who is

Of wicked fathers, meets them where they were led

أَبوكَ هِنابٌ سارقُ الضَيفِ بُردَهُ

وَجَدِّيَ يا حَجَّاجُ فارِسُ شَمَّرا

Your father is a thief, stealing the cloak of guests

While my grandfather, O Hajjaj, a horseman who pushed up his sleeves