قالوا هجاك أبو حفص فقلتُ لهم

باللَّهِ أدفعُ ما لا تدفع الحِيلُ

They said Abu Hafs reviled you, so I said to them:

By God, I fend off what cunning cannot fend.

ألا لئيمٌ جزاه اللَّهُ صالحةً

يهجوه عني فبي عن عرضهِ كسلُ

Indeed wretched the man - may God reward him well -

Who reviles him about me, so through me his honor is attacked in laziness.