أمكُّوكَ الخسار سأنتحيكا

بإحدى الفاقرات ولا أقيكا

I nurture your losses, I will avenge you

With one of the destitute, yet I will not punish you

أتأمُرُ بالتقزُّزِ من كلامي

وذكرك يُصْدِئ الذهبَ السبيكا

Do you command being disgusted with my words

While the mention of you rusts refined gold

زعَمْتَ بأنني نَحْسٌ وإني

مُجيبُك مُعْلِناً لا أتقيكا

You claimed I was ominous, but I

Answer you openly, I do not fear you

توهَّم زَحْفَ موسى نحو حُسْنٍ

على مَنْقوصتيه لكي ينيكا

Moses imagined going after beauty

With his two crippled legs in order to copulate

وقد دانتْ لطاعته فكانت

دجاجتَه وكان هناك ديكا

She surrendered to his obedience so she became

His hen, and there was a rooster

فأنشقَ أنفها من نَتْن فيه

كما أنشقْتَنا من نَتْن فيكا

So he split her nose because of the stench in it

Just as you split us because of the stench in you

وماطلَ فوقها نَزْواً مريضاً

كنزوِ مُسَخَّرٍ لا يَشْتَهيكا

And he rubbed himself on her, a sick mating

Like the mating of an enslaved one who does not desire you

فإنك واجدٌ ثم احتمالاً

وصبراً مثل صبرِ مُسَخّريكا

Yet you can be patient and enduring

Like the patience of your enslaved ones

لقد صبرتْ على قذرٍ وقُبْح

ولم تَسْعَدْ ولم تُرْضِ المليكا

She was patient with filth and ugliness

She was not happy, she did not please the king

فما هذا التقزُّز من كلامي

وأُمّكَ لم تُقَزَّزْ من أبيكا

So why are you disgusted with my words

When your mother was not disgusted by your father

ولا مِنْ حَمْلها إياك منْه

وقد حمل الخنا بطنٌ يعيكا

Nor by her bearing you from him

While the most despised wombs have borne you

حلفْتُ على التي بُلِيتْ بمُوسى

لقدْ جعلَتْ له فيكُم شريكا

I swear by her who was afflicted by Moses

He made her your partner in you

أقِرْدٌ مُقعَدٌ وتَعِفُّ أنثى

له كلا وإفكِ مُعَلّليكا

A lame cripple who spurns the female

No way! And your invalid claims

أحاذِرُ أن تكون سليلَ شتَّى

وأحذَرُ مثلَ ذاك على بنيكا

I fear you are a mongrel's offspring

And I fear the like of that upon your sons

عجِبْتُ ولا تعجُّبَ من ضلالٍ

بدا للناسِ منك ومن ذَويكا

I am astonished but not astonished by the misguidance

That appeared to people from you and your folk

وكثرةِ ناسليكَ لقد أرانا

سُقوطَك قِلةُ المُتنازِعيكا

And the multitude of your progeny, it has shown us

Your downfall, the fewness of your competitors

رأيْتُك من بني حواءَ طُرا

وما في دهمهم مَنْ يدّعيكا

I saw you as an agitated flock from Eve's daughters

And there is no one among them claiming you

وما أنْفيك عن موسى لأني

أرى موسى يُكثّر غائظيكا

It is not that I exonerate you from Moses

For I see Moses multiplying those who annoy you

ولكنْ جَمَّ فيك مُشاركُوهُ

وإن أصبحْتَ بينهُمُ تَريكا

But his partners in you are many

Even if you appear distinct among them

رمْوا بك عن حِرٍ عَمِقٍ وآلُوا

عليك أليَّةَ المُتناكريكا

They have cast you away from a deep pit

And destined upon you the mechanics of those who disavow each other

فلا تعرضْ لدعوى غيرِ مُوسى

فلَيْسَ الأكرمُونَ بقابليكا

So do not make claims other than Moses'

For the most generous are not accepting you

عليك عليك موسى فانتحلْهُ

فإن الناسَ غيرُ مُدافعيكا

It is upon you, it is upon you O Moses, so impersonate him

For people will not defend you

هو الزمنُ الذي أضحى وأمسى

أقلَّ اللَّه فيه مُنافسيكا

It is the time which has come and gone

With God diminishing your adversaries

أبوكَ المُقعَدُ المعتوهُ أدنى

إليك اللُّؤمَ والعقلَ الركيكا

Your lame mad father has lowered upon you

Disgrace and feeble mind

رأيتُ أخاك يطلب منك قوتاً

وقد كثَّرْت فيه مؤنّبيكا

I saw your brother asking you for sustenance

And you made those who reproach him numerous against him

فلم تسمحْ له بكَفافِ وجْهٍ

ولا شفَّعْتَ فيه أقْربيكا

You did not allow him bare subsistence

Nor interceded for him with your kin

وعرّضتَ الخبيثة لي سفاهاً

فعِفْتُ خبيثها حَولاً دكيكا

And you exposed the wicked woman's frivolity to me

So I restrained the wickedness surrounding her thick body

فلمَّا استُكْره الكلِمُ المُقفَّى

تجشَّمها تجشمَ نائكيكا

When the eloquent word was disliked

She undertook it, undertaking what suits you

فقُبحاً يوم تُبعثُ يا ابن موسى

لوِجهِكَ مُرْدِفاً قُبحاً وشيكا

What ugliness the day you are resurrected O son of Moses

Preceding your face an ugliness very soon

أتَسْمَح باستِ أمِّك للقوافي

وتبخَلُ بالكفاف على أخيكا

Do you allow your mother to be used by rhymes

Yet you are miserly to provide subsistence to your brother?

غدوْتَ مُحالفاً مالاً بديناً

جعلتَ فداءَهُ حسباً نهيكا

You have become allied to money through religion

You have made its ransom a barrier stopping you

أتاحكَ لي شقاؤُك يا ابن موسى

لتكسِبَ بي شماتَةَ حاسديكا

Does your misery make you laugh at me O son of Moses?

So you can gain the gloating of your enviers through me

ولم أعلَمْك تطلُبُني بذَحْلٍ

ولكني إخالُك مستنيكا

And I did not know you seek me insistently

But I thought you were avoiding me

ولو أنّي نزوْت بألفِ أيْرٍ

ومِتَّ لما وجدْتَ لديَّ تيكا

If I had a thousand camels

And died you would not find a single hoof from me

وما بي في احتمائك من سقامٍ

ولكنّ المُصحِّح يحتميكا

There is no refuge for me in relying on you from any illness

But the sincere one takes refuge

وهل مِن قائلٍ لك لا يراه

سراةُ الناس مغْبوناً هتيكا

Is there anyone telling you unperceived

By people you are deluded, confused?

أتنتحِلُ التقزُّزَ يا ابن حُسْنٍ

وحَجَّامُ القبيلةِ يمْتَطيكا

Do you adopt feeling disgusted O son of goodness

While the tribe's cupper rides you?

وما تنفكُّ مُرتضعاً مَنِيّاً

لعبدٍ تشتريه فيَشْتريكا

You do not cease being suckled, spewing semen

For a slave you buy who buys you

وكان الحُرُّ عندك عبدَ سَوْءٍ

وعبدُ السُّوءِ ربّاً يَسْتَنيكا

The free man to you was an evil slave

And the evil slave was a lord who copulates you

تشامخُ إنْ لقيتَ ذوي المعالي

وتَسْفُلُ للعبيد فتعتليكا

You are pretentious if you meet the high class

And you descend to the slaves so you climb them

أعِرْ شَتَراً بعيْنك منك فِكْراً

وطالبْ بالجنايةِ واتريكا

Show a camel in your eye from you some thought

And seek compensation and be on your guard

أيورٌ طاعنتْك وأنت ماء

وطالتْ عنك غفلةُ مُدَّعيكا

A she camel has stabbed you while you are water

And neglect of your claimant has lasted for you

أيا شتراً على بخرٍ أليمٍ

إلى قذرٍ توقَّ مُهاتريكا

O camel, to stinking sodomy

To filth, your perversion tends!

أكلْتَ السمَّ يوم أكلتَ لحمي

فلا يغررْك قولُ مهنِّئيكا

You have eaten poison the day you ate my flesh

So do not be fooled by the words of those congratulating you

ستأكلُ من فريك الشَّتْم صدراً

كما أكلت مشايخُك الفريكا

You will eat from your rectum an affliction

Just as your sheikhs ate the jellied broth

وأُعقبك المدُوس على فراغ

وأعقب مثلَ ذاك مُؤازريكا

And I will follow up the trampled one into vacancy

And the like of that your supporters will follow

فصبراً للهجاء ستَجتَويه

على أنَّ الهجاءَ سَيَجْتَوِيكا

So patience - you will suffer lampooning

For lampooning will suffer you

بل الإعراضُ عنك عليَّ فرضٌ

وإن قدمْتُ بعض الهُجر فيكا

Rather, it is incumbent upon me to turn away from you

Even if I have shown some estrangement towards you

ظلمتُكَ إذ هَجَوْتُكَ يا ابن موسى

وحقُّك أن أكثّر مادحيكا

I have wronged you O son of Moses in lampooning you

And your right is for me to multiply those praising you

لأنك نِلْت مني فاجتباني

بذاك جميعُ من لا يجتبيكا

For you have attained from me being singled out

Through that all those who do not single you out

ومَن لا يجتبيك الناسُ طرّاً

وضِعفا ذاك من لا يَرتضيكا

And those who do not single you out, people see you as an agitation

And weakness - that is from those who do not approve of you

ولكنْ لا بحمدِك ذاك لكن

بحمدِ مُكثّر المتنقّصيكا

But that is not through praising you, but

Through praising the One who diminishes those who criticize you

قِلاك براءةٌ وهَواك عُرٌّ

ودينُ الناس حمدُ مُذمّميكا

Your scarcity and your passion is disgrace

And people's religion is praise of those dispraising you

فصِلْني بابتراكك في انتقاصي

فشُكري فوق شكرِ الشاكريكا

So separate me by discarding me in my dispraise

For my gratitude is above the gratitude of the grateful

وأنت أخي أعِدُّك للَّيالي

إذا عرتِ الخطُوب وأرتَجيكا

And you my brother, I regard for nights

When wars break out and I am shaken

وتُعرم غُلْمتي ويقوم أيري

إذا عز السّفاح فأعتريكا

And my camels are exposed, and my wealth stands

When the killer rules so I am stripped

فتمنحني عيالك منحَ سَمْحٍ

إذا نيكتْ حليلتُه ونيكا

So your family will bestow on me bestowal of generosity

When his wife copulates and copulates

تألَّفني بذاك وتبتغيني

وإنْ كنتُ امرأً لا أبتغيكا

Befriend me through that and seek me out

Even if I am a man who does not seek you out

سوى أني أُمِصُّك رأس أيري

وودُّك أنَّني من ناكحيكا

Except that I drain the head of your wealth

And you wish I were among those copulating you

وكم قد قلت حين يُريب رَيْبٌ

مقالة آمِلٍ من آمليكا

And how much I have said when suspicion arises

The words of one hopeful from those hopeful of you

أقرْنَ صديقنا الحسن بن موسى

علوْتَ فليس خطْبٌ يرتقيكا

I matched our companion Hasan ibn Moses

You have risen, so there is no marriage proposal reaching you

رأيتُك حِصْن من يرتادُ حِصناً

فطوبى نائليك ونازليكا

I saw you as a fortress for one who frequents fortresses

So blessed are those attaining you and dwelling with you