أنَّى هجوتَ بني ثوابَهْ
يا صاحبَ العينِ المُصابَهْ
How could you insult the people of Thawaba
O companion of the afflicted eye
أهلَ السماحةِ والرجا
حة والأصالة واللَّبابَهْ
The people of generosity, dignity, origin, and intellect
The leaders of authority and prestige
القائلينَ الفاعليـ
ـن أُولي الرياسة والنِّقابَهْ
Those reaching glory and building it high above them like domes
Taking the lead like courageous lions holding their tails
والفارعينَ المجدَ والـ
ـبانينَ فوقهُمُ قِبابهْ
Nobles whose faces shine when they appear
No lofty mountain remains that one could climb
الآخذينَ بأنفهِ
لا كالأُلى عِلِقوا ذِنابَهْ
It is as though God made it smooth just for them
If praise were borrowed for a day they would possess it
نُجبٌ تلوح إذا بَدَوْا
بوجُوهم غُررُ النجابهْ
My Lord, their view—when sound opinion is lost—
seeks the protection of the virtuous
لم يبقَ طودٌ للعلا
لا يرتقي أحدٌ هِضابهْ
A flawless integrity if missing, they would look for it
A people, if a crack appeared they would mend it
إلا كأنَّ اللَّه ذل
لَلَ عامداً لهمُ صِعابهْ
And if wintry days betrayed, they followed clouds
Their homes were made, along with the Ancient House, stations for us
وإذا استعارَ الحمدَ يو
ماً معشرٌ ملَكُوا رقابهْ
We take successive rest in them whenever we wish
The desperate takes refuge with them when our rope shakes
يا رُبَّ رأيٍ فيهمُ
لا تَبلغُ الآراءُ قابهْ
No suppliant has called upon them without being answered
How many have taken shelter with them when days harmed them
وندىً إذا فُقِدَ النَّدى
يتتبَّعُ العافي مُصابهْ
Take from them a rope in tribulations and fear no breaking
Their like, understand the darkness that covers them with fine dust
قومٌ إذا صَدْعٌ تفا
قَمَ مرةً كانوا رِئابهْ
And single out Abu Al Abbas in open-handedness truly with no mirage
A King whose hands people seek to kiss when he goes out
وإذا شتاءٌ أخلفتْ
أنواؤه خَلفوا سَحابهْ
Ask his deputies about his overflowing munificence that informs you sincerely
A rain, if you seek it, you would find gold in its descending
جُعلتْ بيوتُهم مع الـ
ـبيتِ العتيقِ لنا مَثابهْ
The barefooted sit while it gushes towards them
Its breaths have made them abandon efforts
ننتابُ فيها نائلاً
جَزْلاً متى شئنا انتيابهْ
But delegations of gratitude do not cease to fill its courtyard
And when a grateful person sought from it the reward of benevolence
ويلوذُ لائذُنا بها
إن حبلُنا اضطربَ اضطرابهْ
It gave what if marked would be taken by the grasping hands
So it made praise that adorns the roses permissible wealth
لم يَدْعهُمْ مُستنجدٌ
إلا ودعوتُه المُجابهْ
Many a banner of glory missed it while the commoners hit it
In speech he presents what rivals spill out evenly
كم عائذٍ من دهرِهِ
بهمُ إذا ما الدهرُ رابَهْ
An opinion, if the confused elongate differences in accounting
The plain truth does not veil itself from him nor does it fear ambiguity
خُذ في النوائب منهمُ
حَبْلاً ولا تَخَفِ انقضابَهْ
The fulfiller of destiny, if determined, no doubt can divert it
No faultfinder blames it if matters collide with it
أمثالَهُمْ فاعْممْ بمد
حكَ عَمَّهُمْ حُسْنُ الصحابهْ
With its plot, it waters the thirsty and harvests ripe fruits
And its sharpness hunts down the causes of death when you see its punishment
واخصُصْ أبا العباس بحـ
ـرَ الجودِ حقاً لا سرابهْ
It surpassed the perfect men as the lofty mountain surpassed its foothills
I swear by the King Whom no king can overpower
ملِكٌ يظلُّ إذا غدا
تتعاورُ الأيدي رِكابهْ
That I have turned aside praise to him without needing to invent any
And I swear by my solemn oath without wishing to breach it
سائلْ بسؤدَدِهِ المعا
شرَ بل ندَاهُ وانسكابهْ
Oh remote you are from the lies and doubts attributed to you
You have corrupted the one who walked straight
يُخبرْك عنهُ باليقي
ن ويجعل الجدوى جوابهْ
And forgot your corruption, O dust
If your wedding night were afflicted
غيثٌ إذا اسْتَمطرتَهُ
ألفيتَ من ذَهبٍ ذِهابهْ
It would not have invited you, then, to its bed
While he has not avoided the sanctuary of religion, evading it
قعدَ العُفاةُ وسيبُهُ
يَختبُّ نحوهُمُ اختبابهْ
Has anyone feared violation or apprehension like his fear?
Your insults do not harm him
أغنتهُمُ نفحاتُهُ
حتى لقد هجروا جَنابهْ
Will the gossip of insects or nibbling of flies hurt him tomorrow?
You have initiated insulting him, thus increasing speech without pleasantness
لكنْ وفودُ الشكرِ لا
تنفكُّ قد شحنتْ رحابهْ
You have considered it okay in a line of poetry while far from accurateness
How can one be outstretched when they have been raised so high?
ولَمَا ابتغى من شاكرٍ
شُكرَ النَّوالِ ولا استثابهْ
However it is an elegant line just mentioning its meaning brings joy
You are blind to the ways of guidance and remain riding every confusion
أعطى الذي لَوْ سِيمَ حا
تمُ أْخذَهُ يوماً لهابَهْ
How many times stretched between sin and solitude that you doubt!
Slandering it cheekily with an insolence in you that has solidity
فأباحَهُ حَمْدَ الورى
مالٌ أباحهُمُ انتهابهْ
That's how the likes of you slander venerable matters unveiled and blameworthy
I have said when I was told of what you did resembling the youth
كم رايةٍ للمجد فا
زَ بِهَا وأخطأها عَرابهْ
Why not prevent him from insulting and say to him lies?
A blind and blinding man whose calculations hands cannot control
ويُجيلُ في الخَطْب الذي
تُضحي شواكِلُهُ تَشَابهْ
Afflicted by a problem with no sympathy
A dog howled trying to kill
رأياً إذا الخطأ المُخي
لُ أطالَتِ الفِرَقُ اعتقابهْ
As dogs tend to howl at ruins
So its howling led it while it howled at the ruins of the forest
لم يحتجبْ عنه الصوا
بُ وأين عنهُ تَرى احتجابهْ
It threw its puppies at me
And the blood on its mouth dyed its lips
لا رَأْيَ في مَجهولَةٍ
يجتابُ ظُلمتَها اجتيابَهْ
So think of a Syrian dog that the lion entered its lair with his claws and canine teeth
How dare you insult the people of rewards or the slaves of people of rewards
تجلو به سدفَ العما
ية عنك أو ترضى انجيابهْ
Safe from all things worthy of questioning but not seeking answers
Many brothers their misdeeds have faded, those crowlike traits
أجلى البصيرة لا تَقَحـ
ـحُمَه تخاف ولا ارتيابهْ
Due to their forbearance on the Day of Judgment when his book is brought
Since no sin of his will be seen but through it while finding no credit
ماضي القضاءِ إذا ارتأى
لم يستطع شَكٌّ جِذابهْ
Every member of him appears guilty except his blessing
And if able, he would repel it
ما عاب ذو طعم ريا
ضَتَهُ الأمورَ ولا اقتضابهْ
To be a door for misdeeds, may God hasten its removal
O you whose flaws at insolences hope for forgiveness one day
وبكَيده يَروي القنا
عَلَقاً ويختضبُ اختضابهْ
Get away from wretchedness and snake creeping through him
How can the scabby bald meet he who hopes for welcoming?
وتصيدُ لَحمَتها عُقا
بُ الموتِ يومَ تَرى عقابهْ
What do you resent towards a man who takes shelter in a burrow?
He has sheep that he releases not caring for the wolves
فَضَلَ الرجالَ ذوي الكما
لِ كما اعتلى جبلٌ ظِرابَهْ
No, but women waddling with protruding pregnant bellies
They are the destination for those who spend their night lost not knowing where they will end up
أقسمتُ بالمَلِكِ الذي
لم يستطِعْ مَلِكٌ غِلابهْ
You took liberties with the sanctities of a people whose trust is stored within their houses
No person of prestige wore the turbans of shame
لقد استدَرَّ له المدي
حُ وما تكلَّفتُ احتلابهْ
Much less did he watch for blame in permitting them
And you lecture me that you insulted them?
ولقد حلفتُ بما حلف
تُ به وما أبغي خِلابهْ
O lower than plebeians
Hide your honor—do not diminish it—and deposit it at denigrations
يا بُعدَهُ مما افْتري
تَ من الفواحش واغترابَهْ
Your honor does not equal the honor of a passerby so do not diminish it
I answered him when he said this in words that explain his speech
خنَّثْتَ أَرْجَلَ مَنْ مَشى
ونسيتَ خُنْثَكَ يا تُرابهْ
Had you insulted other than the people of rewards, I would not have allowed them insult
And I would not have accepted the babble of the villain or his hostility
لو أنَّ عِرسَك بايتت
هُ لَما دعَتْهُ إذاً لُبابهْ
But I protect them as long as my sea rages in its storms
And I see insulting my honor among them or wasting it as trivial
مَعَ أنهُ لم يَجْتنبْ
رَجلٌ حِمَى الدين اجتنابهْ
Since troubles in protecting them are pleasurable woes
If only their roads betrayed me one day at rugged Al-Shabah
وهَل اتَّقى كتِقائه
أحدٌ أو ارتقبَ ارتقابهْ
My heart is their sanctuary so none can have its slopes but them
Why not when their memory is spirit if worries depart?
ما ضَرَّهُ أهَجَوْتَهُ
يا وغدُ أم طَنّتْ ذُبابهْ
And if a wish distances, through them we hope its nearing?
I have alienated from my poetry the anger that boils
أنشأتَ تهجوهُ فأكْ
ثرتَ الكلام بلا إطابهْ
To please them, avoiding its disturbing troubles
I have slipped away from them to you and away from their territory of power
وأحلتَ في بيت وما
زِلتَ البعيد من الإصابهْ
So your rhymes aspired and you threw matters of importance
Climb down, one who threw at towering heights
أنَّى يكون مُمدَّداً
رَجلٌ وقد رفعوا كِعابهْ
Surely one who threw at elevations, it would hit him
It was not your destiny to surpass praising them, no, confusion prevents you
لكنه بيتٌ عَرا
كَ لذكر معناه صَبابهْ
Especially with a mouth whose seminal fluid drink does not dry up from its wine
Passing the shameless with it when the gift of old age inspires her
فعميتَ عن سنَن الطري
قِ وظِلْتَ تركبُ كل لابهْ
The most filthy thing if the rabble of its insolence were youthful
Are you not ashamed of what might defile your saliva?
كم صرعةٍ بين العبي
دِ وخَلْوةٍ لك مُسْترابهْ
While including that is not more despicable, rather more pleasant
Why were you not transformed when you mentioned them seriously or jokingly?
أصبحتَ تَنْحَلُها الكرا
مَ بوجنةٍ فيها صَلابهْ
But transforming the transformed is impossible, especially for you
Do you think were you transformed you would achieve your ugliness or bleakness?
وكذاكَ مثلك ينحلُ السا
داتِ عَرَّتَهُ وعَابهْ
One is not transformed who has not covered what he fears being unveiled
Absolutely not! And between elegance and your face intimacy is in no way possible
قد قلتُ إذ خُبِّرتُ عن
ك بما أشبتَ من الأُشابهْ
Their memory is affliction to one like you among the wicked
No, but to one who touched your ignorance without washing his clothes
هلّا نهاهُ عن الكرا
م وقِيله فيهم كِذابَهْ
No, but to one entered the shade of your darkness without stripping his robes
You have not insulted them except so that you may insult so as to be mentioned among the fools
عَوَرٌ وإعوارٌ به
لا تَضْبِطُ الأيدي حِسابَهْ
You have sought fame when you saw your ignorance in their absence
A (false) glory that you mend and a wound you constantly seek to loot
منه بلاءٌ باستهِ
ليست عليه بالمُثابَهْ
So when you gain a quick announcement you accept as reward
You do not accompany Abdullah but accompany Zayd and his activity
كلبٌ عوى مُستقتِلاً
والحَيْنُ يَستعوي كلابهْ
And you stood up punishing the oaf—no, his beating—
And the standing up of a person to do may just be his fall
فَهَدى إليه عُواؤُه
لمّا عوى رِئبالَ غابهْ
While Abdullah is proceeding between your wonder and insects
With vices that heal simpletons when they are agitated from the clouds
ألقى كلاكِلَهُ عليـ
ـِ وعلَّ من دمه حِرابهْ
With insolent intrusion that has torn your shroud after it tore the veil
O lost ransom that you seek to continuously appease
فاظنُن بكلبٍ شامَ فيـ
ـه الليثُ مِخْلَبَهُ ونابهْ
May your hands perish paying what no one pays as ransom
An old man if a young one scorns will sacrifice his youth
أنَّى يَسُبُّ بني ثوا
بة أو عبيدَ بني ثوابهْ
My eagerness upon you is a corrupt transgressor
With a tongue that has thinness
من كل شيءٍ يُسْتَتَا
بُ وما استُهُ بالمُستَتابهْ
What is the matter an heir immerses in you of literature and writing?
Why not thank the people of rewards? What brought its rider's feet to a halt?
كم إخوةٍ وارت له
سوءاتِهِم تلك الغُرابهْ
That you met those who have known you and the slave who busies his bag
While they have not seen censure of him one day or backbiting
لإخالهُ يوم القيا
مة باستِهِ يُؤتى كتابهْ
Out of generosity, their reward from bounty was to delegate donations
To insult them of enmity scattering his flies constantly upon them
إذ لا يُرى ذنبٌ له
إلا بها وَلِيَ اكتسابهْ
That's how the hostile aggresses if you understand his origin
A man asking other than what God has made requesting of him
بل كلُّ عضوٍ منه يو
جَدُ مذنباً حاشا عُنابهْ
Ask about that his disgrace violating the protected innocents and seizing by force
Crowding the shameless forcibly then corrupting her veil
ولو استطاع لصاغه
دُبُراً ولالْتمسَ انقلابهْ
Oh his wicked opening! And his nostrils took in its expanse!
A beast whose hearing they deafened so his warning of blame silenced him
ليكون باباً للفيا
شل عَجَّل اللَّه اجتبابهْ
Then he transgressed denying it while his companions drip it
The people bestowed good upon you but you did not reward it well
يا من لحاهُ على الفوا
حش يرتجي يوماً متابهْ
They covered your scandal, not the suspicion, seeing the disgrace itself
You denied them a denial that made the ugliness of their tan darker
خلِّ الشقِيَّ وَحَيَّةً
تنسابُ فيه وانسيابهْ
And you entered the morning falsely accusing the innocent ones while not wiping the dust
Pelting them with slander carelessly, obstructing them while calculating
أنَّى يُلاقي القارظَ الـ
ـعَنَزيَّ من يرجو إيابهْ
You will come to know in the morning who you pelted
And the fog will dissipate from you
ماذا نَقِمْتَ على امرىءٍ
يُؤوي إلى جُحرٍ حُبابهْ
Your hands will blame what they have earned when you meet your punishment tomorrow
And you will confess you were ignorant
وله نعاجٌ لا يزا
ل مُخلِّيا فيها ذئابهْ
Not coming to matters correctly
He who lights the useless woods at night, blames it at dawn
لا بل نساءٌ يزدَبِبْ
نَ أيور ناكتِهِ ازدبابَهْ
Many like yourself prolongs his sins then chooses
And I have inserted in the section of censure lewd seminal fluid
هنَّ المآب لكل من
أمسى ولم يَعرفْ مآبهْ
Until he became after cheerfulness dressed in gloom
Fearing above him my torment and pouring
ناهِيكَ من ثقةٍ سها
مُ القوم مُودَعَةٌ جِعابَهْ
But it's me who poked censure by striking with its spark a flame
It's me who if the ground removed will light his oil and quench his thirst
لم يَعْتصِبْ ذو حرمةٍ
بعصائب العار اعتصابهْ
And if the procession of poets rebelled and turned away from me in torment
As for when you seek its opening, I will open upon you its door
كلّا ولا احتقب المآ
ثمَ في إباحتها احتِقابهْ
And I will carry you off ardent poet whom the inflammation of poetry burnt
If he raised the iron to strike fierce, its flashing melted it
ومُعنِّفٍ لي أنْ هَجَوْ
تُك يا أقلَّ من الصُّؤَابهْ
Take it! A response for the meddlesome whose responses always silenced
The clattering women if the man had many faults in his clattering
قال اطوِ عِرضك لا تُدَنْ
نِسهُ وأوْدِعْهُ عِيابهْ
He flees with an opinion had it shaken the boulders it would have answered!
He finds a solution in a tumultuous sea that dazzles the eyes when it sees its shores clashing
ما كفءُ عرضك عرضُ معـ
ـرورٍ فلا تحكُكْ نِقابهْ
And he proceeds according to what he heard the waves in it and its building
No support remains for you after it if you collide with it
فأجبتُه إذ قال ذا
كَ بخُطبةٍ فَصَلَتْ خطابهْ
The herd of devastation if a man abundantly erred in their devastation
Shooting every villainous opinion as though if it shook it would split a rock
لو سَبَّ غيرَ بني ثوا
بةَ ما جَشِمتُ لهم سِبابهْ
Drawing from a sea its essence dazzles eyes when they see its white foam
And it is deafening if ears heard the frequent pounding of its waves and their collision
وَلَمَا رضيت لمنطقي
فَرْعَ اللئيم ولا نِصابهْ
You will have no more opinions after it if you collide with it
Its plot waters the thirsty and reaps the ripe
لكنني أحميهُمُ
ما حالَفَتْ بَحْري صُبابهْ
And its sharpness hunts the causes of death when you see its punishment
It has surpassed men of perfection as the towering mountain surpassed the elevation of its carpet
وأرى يسيراً فيهمُ
تدنيسَ عرضي أو ذَهابَهْ
I swear by the King no king can overpower
I have exempted praise of him while I did not burden myself seeking exemption
إن المكارِه في حِما
يتهم عِذابٌ مُستطابهْ
I have sworn an oath I do not wish to breach
Oh remote from the abhorred lies ascribed!
واليْتُهم ما حالفتْ
أوعالُ شابةَ هضبَ شَابَهْ
You have crippled the one walking straight and forgot your crippling, O speck of dust!
Had your wedding night been afflicted, it would not invite you then
وإذا امرؤ عاداهُمُ
أصفرتُ من وُدّي وِطابهْ
While he has not avoided the sanctuary of religion shunning
Has anyone taken precautions of violations like his precautions?
ومتى امترى حلبَ الوصا
ل ملأتُ من هجر عِلابَهْ
Your insults do not harm him, will the insects’ gossip or flies’ bites hurt him tomorrow?
You have initiated insulting him increasing speech without pleasantness
إذ لا أبالي فيهمُ
حسكَ العدو ولا ضِبابَهْ
You declared it lawful in a poetic line while distant from precision
How can one be outstretched when they have raised his elevation?
من كان مكتئباً لذا
ك فقد توخيت اكتئابهْ
However it is a line with meaning that recalls joy when mentioned
You are blind to the path of guidance remaining riding every confusion
لا زالَ يَقْدَحُ وَرْيُهُ
في صدره أبداً قُحابَهْ
How many times stretched out between sins and solitude that you doubt!
Slandering it with insolent vulgarity solid in your composition
قلبي حِمىً لَهُمُ فلَمْ
يحتلَّ غيرُهُمُ شِعابهْ
That’s how the like of you slander lofty matters of dignity exposed and blame
I have said when told of your resemblance to reckless wary youth
لِمْ لا وذكراهُمْ له
رَوْحٌ إذا ما الهمُّ نابهْ
Why not forbid him from insulting and declare his lies upon them?
A blind menace whose calculations hands cannot contain
ومتى تَباعدَ مطلبٌ
فبِيُمْنهم نرجو اقترابهْ
Afflicted by plagues without condolences
A dog has howled seeking blood
وتحرِّياً لرضاهُمُ اسْ
تنفرت من شِعري غِضابهْ
As dogs tend to howl arid ruins
Thus its howl sent arid ruins of the forest
وَسَلَلْتُ دُونَهُمُ علي
ك ودون حوزتهم عِضابهْ
It releases its young upon me
Staining its mouth my blood colored its dripping
سامَتْ قوافيك السما
ء ورُمتَ أمراً ذا مَهابَهْ
Imagine if a Syrian dog the lion entered its lair, clawing and biting
How dare you insult the people of glory or servants of people of glory?
فاربَعْ عليك فمن رمى
صُعُداً بجَنْدلِهِ أصابهْ
Safe from all things questionable but not pursuing inquiry
Many brethren their evil deeds have vanished, those crow-like signs
ما كان قدرُك أن تفو
ه بمدحهم بَلْهَ المَعابهْ
Due to their restraint, the Day their book is brought for Judgment
Since no sin manifests but through it, while earning no merit
لا سيّما بفمٍ يَظَلـ
ـلُ مَنِيُّ ناكتِهِ شرابهْ
Every member appears at fault, only its innocence inculpated
If able, it would repulse
تَمْري الأيورَ به إذا
أهدى حشاكَ لها خِضابهْ
To be a door for immorality, may God hasten its conclusion
O you whose blemish insolently hopes for forgiveness someday
أَقْذِرْ وأخبِثْ بالمني
يِ إذا عبيطُ السَّلح شابهْ
Away from wretch! A serpent slithers creeping within!
How can the scabbed bald meet he who hopes for welcoming?
هَتْماً لفيك أما تَخَيْـ
ـيَرَ ما يشوبُ بهِ لُعابهْ
What do you resent in a man sheltered in a burrow?
Owning sheep not minding the wolves wandering them
وإخالُ ذلك لم يزد
في خُبثه لكن أطابهْ
No, but women waddling, bulging bellies burdened
They are the fate of ones spending their night not knowing their fate
هَلّا مُسِخْتَ وقد ذكر
تَهمُ بجِدٍّ أو دُعابهْ
You have taken liberties among sanctities of a people trusting custody in their homes
None esteemed has donned disgrace's turban
لكنَّ المَسْخَ المسخِ مُمْ
تنعٌ ولا سيما الزَّبابهْ
Much less apprehensively disallowed permitting them
Yet you fault me for insulting them?
أتظن أنك لو مُسخ
تَ بلغتَ قُبحك أو قُرابهْ
O lower than riffraff!
Hide your honor—do not slight it—embed it in degradations!
ما يُمسخُ المسخُ الذي
لم يُكسَ ما يخشى استلابهْ
Your honor's not the equal of a passerby's, do not disparage yourself!
I answered him when he declared this in words detailing his oration:
كلا وما بين الفرا
ق وبين وجهك من قَرابهْ
Had you insulted other than the Glories’ people, I'd not allow insulting them
I'd not accept the villain's nonsense or hostility
ذِكراهُمُ بَسْلٌ على
من كان مثلك في الجنابهْ
Nay I protect them until my sea rages in its tempest
And I see insulting my honor or wasting it among them as paltry
لا بل على من مسّ ثو
بك ثم لم يغسِل ثيابهْ
Since troubles in their sanctuary are pleasurable afflictions
If only their roads had not betrayed me someday at formidable al-Shaba
لا بل على من خاض ظل
لَك ثم لم يَسلخ إهابهْ
My heart's inviolate for them so none can HAVE ITS SLOPES BUT THEM
WHY NOT WHEN THEIR MEMORY IS SPIRIT IF CARES DISPERSE?
لم تهجُهُم إلا لكي
تهجي فتُذكَرَ في عِصابهْ
And if a desire distances, through them we hope its nearing?
I have alienated my poetry's anger boiling
طَلَبَ النَّباهةِ إذ رأَيْ
تكَ من خُمولك في غيابَهْ
To gratify them, avoiding its disturbing troubles
I have slipped from them to you and from their sphere of reign—
جاهٌ تُرمِّمُهُ ودُبْ
رٌ تبتغي أبداً خَرابهْ
So your rhymes have soared and affairs of import you have tossed!
Climb down! One who flung at towering heights—
فإذا ظَفِرتَ بحادرٍ
ذي كُدْنَةٍ تَرْضَى وِثابهْ
Surely one who flung at peaks, it would strike him!
It was not your fate to excel praising them—nay, confusion thwarts you—
لم تُلفِ عبدَ اللَّهِ بل
ألفيتَ زيداً وانتصابهْ
Especially with a mouth whose seminal fluid does not dry from its wine's pour
Chasing the shameless therewith when the gift of old age compels her—
ولَمَا انتصبتَ مُعاملاً
ضَرْبَ المُواثِبِ بل ضِرابهْ
Most sordid thing! If the dross of its insolence were youthful vigor!
Are you not ashamed of what might defile your spittle?
ولربما كان انتصا
بُ المرءِ للفعل انكبابهْ
While including that is no more despicable—nay, more palatable!
Why were you not transformed having mentioned them in earnest or play?
وعلاكَ عبدُ اللَّه ينـ
ـظِمُ بين عَجْبِك والذؤابهْ
But transforming the transformed is impossible—most of all for you!
Think you if transformed you'd have gained your ugliness or drear?
بعُجَارِمٍ يشفي الفقا
حَ إذا شَغَبْنَ من السَّغابهْ
One's not transformed who has not masked what violation lays bare!
Absolutely not! Between elegance and the aspect of your face no closeness lies!
ذي فَيْشَةٍ شكَّتْ فؤا
دَك بعدما هتكت حِجابهْ
Remembering them is torment to one such as you amid perversity
Nay to one who touched your plague yet did not wash his cloak
يا ضُلَّ تَفْدِيةٍ هنا
لك تستديمُ بها هِبابهْ
Nay to one who waded into your darkness yet did not strip his robe
Naught insults them but that you may slight and be named amid fools—
تَبَّتْ يداك مُفَدِّياً
ما تَبَّ من أحدٍ تَبابهْ
Seeking glory when beheld your ignorance in their absence
A glory you amend and a scar you constantly demand to ruin
شيخٌ إذا حَدَثٌ أها
نَ مَشيبَهُ فدَّى شبابهْ
Thus if you gain a swift herald you find pleasing as reward
Not accompanying Abdullah but accompanying Zayd in his toil—
لَهْفي عليك مُخَنَّثاً
وعلى لسانك ذي الذَّرابهْ
Standing erect to punish the lout—no! flog him!
A person's standing to enact can just conclude in their fall
ماذا يخوضُ الأيرُ في
ك من الكتابةِ والخطَابهْ
While Abdullah proceeds amid your wonders and insects
With vices healing simpletons when agitated by the firmament's tempests
هلّا شكرتَ بني ثوا
بَةَ ما حدا حادٍ رِكابهْ
With insolent intrusion rending your shroud after rending the veil—
O lost ransom perpetually appeased through you!
أن صادفوا من قد عَلِمْ
تَ وعَبْدَهُ يحشو جِرابهْ
May your hands that pay what none pay as ransom perish!
An elder if a juvenile disdains will offer his vigor
إذ لم يَرَوْا تقريعه
يوماً بذاك ولا اغتيابهْ
I yearn for your fall, O transgressive defiler
With a tongue of frailty—
كرماً فكان جزاؤهم
منهُ أن انتدبَ انتدابهْ
Why does an heir wade in you amid literature and script?
Why not thank Rewards' people? What halted the rider at their feet?
يهجوهُمُ بَغْياً ويُلـ
ـصِقُ دائماً بِهِمُ شِغابَهْ
As you have met those recognizing you and the slave stuffing his purse—
وكذلك البغَّاءُ با
غٍ إن تَفَهَّمْتَ انتسابهْ
رجلٌ يطالبُ غير ما
جعلَ الإلهُ له طِلابهْ
سائلْ بذلك بَخْسَهُ
حقَّ الغواني واغتصابهْ
زَحَمَ الأيورَ على الفرو
جِ مَعاً فسدَّ بها نِقابهْ
فَاهُ الخبيثَ ومَنخِرَيْ
هِ وفقحةً منهُ رُحابهْ
وحشا مسامعَهُ بها
فحمى مُعاتِبَه عِتابهْ
ثم اغتدى مُتَبرِّئاً
من ذاك يَنْحَلُهُ صِحابهْ
أسدى إليك القومُ معـ
ـروفاً فلم تحسن ثوابهْ
ستروا عليك وقد رأوْا
نَفْسَ الفضيحة لا الإرابهْ
فَجَحَدْتَهُمْ جحداً جعل
تَ قبيحَ قَرْفِكَهُمْ قِطابهْ
وغدوتَ بَهَّاتَ الجَبيـ
ـنِ وأنت لم تمسحْ ترابهْ
ترميهِمُ بالإفك مُطْـ
ـطَرِحاً سَداهُمْ واحتسابهْ
أصبِحْ تبيَّنْ مَنْ رَمَيْ
تَ وتنجلي عنك الضبابهْ
سَتَذُمُّ ما اكتسبتْ يدا
ك إذا لقيت غداً عقابهْ
وتُقرُّ أنك جاهلٌ
لم تأتِ من أمرٍ صَوابهْ
من باتَ يحتطِبُ الأفا
عِيَ لَيلَهُ ذَمَّ احتطابهْ
ولرُبَّ مثلك قد أطَلْ
تُ على خطيئته انتحابهْ
وجعلتُ في نَظْمَ الهجا
ءِ فِياشَ ناكتهِ سِخَابهْ
حتى غدا بعد المِرا
ح عليه سِربالُ الكآبهْ
مُترقِّباً مِنْ فوقهِ
يخشى عَذابي وانصبابهْ
وأنا الذي قدحَ الهجا
ءُ بزَنْدِهِ قِدْماً شهابهْ
وأنا الذي مِنْ أرضِهِ
يمتارُ حنظلَهُ وصَابَهْ
وإذا تمرَّد ماردُ الـ
ـشُعراء ولَّاني عذابَهْ
أمَّا إذا استفتحْتَهُ
فلأفتحنَّ عليك بابهْ
ولأُصلينَّك جاحمَ الـ
ـشِعر الذي هِجت التهابهْ
قَذَعٌ إذا سَفَعَ الحدي
دَ سعيرُ أيسرِه أَذابهْ
خُذها جوابَ مُفَوّهٍ
ما زال يُفْحِمُ من أجابهْ
جَمُّ الصِّياب إذا امرؤٌ
كثرت خواطئهُ صِيابهْ
يَفْري الفريَّ بِمقْولٍ
لو هزَّهُ للصخر جابهْ
يمتاحُ من بحرٍ يهو
لُ العين حين ترى حِدابهْ
ويُصِمُّ من سمع الْتِطَا
م الموج فيه واصطخابهْ
لا مادَ رأياً بعدها
لك إن صَدَمْتَ بها عُبَابهْ
