أَصابَت عَلينا جودَكَ العَينُ يا عُمَر

فَنَحنُ لَها نَبغي التَمائِمَ وَالنُشَر

Your generosity has been afflicted by the evil eye, O Omar

So we seek charms and publications for it

أَصابَتكَ عينٌ في سَخائِكَ صُلبَةٌ

وَيارُبَّ عَينٍ صُلبَةٍ تَفلِقُ الحَجَر

Your generosity has been afflicted by a rigid eye

And by God a rigid eye can split rocks

سَنَرقيكَ بِالأَشعارِ حَتّى تَمَلَّها

فَإِنلَم تُفِق مِنها رَقَيناكَ بِالسُوَر

We will elevate you with poems until you are weary of them

And if you do not recover from them, we will elevate you with walls