يا دائِبينَ عَلى الفَحشَاءِ وَيلَكُمُ

أَلبَستُمُ شَيخَكُم ثَوباً مِنَ العارِ

O you who persist in lewdness, woe to you!

You have clothed your elder in a robe of shame.

أَلإبنُ في دارِكُم صِهرٌ لِوالِدِهِ

وَالأَخُ قَد يَنثَنِي عَن كَلبِهِ الحارِ

Your son is a son-in-law to his own father,

And a brother may turn away from his own bitch in heat.

ما تَحفَظونَ أَباكُم في حَلائِلِهِ

وَالكَلبُ عِرسٌ لَحاهُ اللَّهُ مِن دارِ

You do not preserve your father's honor in his wives,

Yet a dog guards jealously that which God has kept from his house.

أَحيَيتُمُ سُنَّةً دانَ المَجوسُ بِها

فَعَظِّموا مِثلَهُم بَيتاً مِنَ النارِ

You have revived a tradition which even the Magians condemned,

So exalt, like them, a house of fire!