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معشوشب كحلول الخبل كالزأم

The dawn light glistens on the peaks of its shoulders,

Disheveled like the coming of insanity or leprosy.

يا من له المجد في أخصاص خيمته

كالدر في صدف والديم في غيم

O you whose glory resides in the innermost parts of your tent,

Like a pearl in an oyster shell or blood in a cloud.

الفحش صنعته واللهو ملته

والتنع خلقته

You created vulgarity, frivolity is your pastime,

And you originated abomination.

الترب عادته والقبح شيمته

واللؤم كحاتم كرم

Dust is your habit and ugliness is your trait,

And foolishness - you are generous like Hatim.

الجهل مذهبه الأنان قادته

السفه ديدنه كالنكنه كالعلفم

Ignorance is your doctrine, arrogance your guide,

Idiocy your religion, like a ewe or cattle fodder.

إن سمته ساحة حسبته غزل

وإن بدا ديم يا موهب النعم

If you walk proudly you seem a mere fool,

O granter of bounty, even if you appear gentle.

لقد فشا ذكره في الناس كلهم

والناس يدعونه للحق يأبهم

Your reputation has spread amongst all people,

And people supplicate against you vehemently.

يأبى الإسلام ولا يرضى به أبدا

يا ويله في الورى قد عاش في سرم

Islam refuses you and will never accept you,

Oh what an affliction you are in this world, you have lived in evil.

الكل يلعنه والكل شيمته

والكل يكذبه إن في كلم

Everyone curses you and denounces your ways,

And all call you a liar if you even utter a word.

إن أبصر الناس في عيش نعيم وقد

ما مال إلا إليهم مسعى

When you see people living in blessing and pleasure,

And no one pays you any heed,

لم يشرب الماء من حقد ومن حسد

إلا الأخلا وهو مبتسم

You only drink the water of rancor and envy,

Nothing but bitterness while smiling.

يرد عونه إن بدا في الناس يا عفور

والكل في جذل ما دام في بكم

If you offer help when it appears people need you, gentle one,

While everyone treats you with contempt as long as you are silent.

يا واردا من أهيل الواد قف نفسا

أشكو إليك ما ذقته من الغرم

O you who came from the ravines, stop for a moment

While I complain to you of what I have tasted of sorrow.

ها واش من أهيل الحي يشتمني

من جيره قد غدوا في

Look, how the despicable people of my neighborhood insult me,

They have fallen into illness and affliction.

السقم مسكنه في ذي حجل

والنوم مهربه من مقل ذي أزم

Pain is his dwelling in the body of the wretched one,

And sleep is his escape from the pain of one distressed.

والديم منسجم من فضله هملت

والضوء منحلك من كثرة الظلم

Blood is harmonized from his excess - he has neglected

and light dissolved from the abundance of darkness.

وفتت كبدي من كثرة العهل

ومزقت فزعي من ذي شع

My liver wasted away from the excess of suffering,

And my composure was ripped apart from the owner of passion.

والشجو أقلقني والقلب في شجر

والجسم منهمك من

Yearning kept me awake and my heart is broken,

And my body is immersed in grief.

الله يهلكه الله يلعنه

الله يمحقه من شيمة السلم

May God destroy him, may God curse him,

May God eradicate him for the trait of peace.

الله ينشنه

الله يتحفه من سهم ذي سقم

May God whet his arrow,

May God equip him with the arrows of disease.

هو الخبيث الذي جلت بشاعته

واستعظمت الشبل في أجم

He is the despicable one whose ugliness is exposed,

And the cub seemed great in the valley.

لا يسمح الدهر

فالقلب ممتلئ من جزم ذي صمم

Fate does not forgive,

So the heart is full of determination and resolve.

لا يجمع الله بيني وبينه أبدا

فالأفق شيمته والسفك مكتتم

May God never unite me with him again,

For the horizon is his trait and bloodshed his trade.