يُنادونَهُ وَقَد صم عَنهُم

ثُمَّ قالوا وَلِلنِّساءِ نَحيب

They call out to him, but he is deaf to them,

Then they said, and the women began to wail,

ما الَّذي عاقَ أَن ترد جَواباً

ايُّها المَقول الاِديبُ الاِريبُ

"What has made you unable to give an answer?

Oh, you, the eloquent and fluent speaker!

إِن تَكُن لا تَطيقُ رجع جَواب

فَبِما قَد تَرى وَأَنت خَطيبُ

If you cannot bear to give a reply,

Then by what you see, though you are an orator,

ذو عَظات وَما وَعظت بِشَيء

مِثل وَعظ السُكوتِ إِذ لا تَجيبُ

With admonitions - yet you have admonished us with nothing

Like the admonition of silence, when you do not answer."