إن باركَ اللَه في الأنام فلا

باركَ ربّ الأنام في سلمَه

If God has blessed people, the Lord of people has not

If God bestows His blessings on mankind, may the Lord of all creation bless not Salamah.

Blessed his peace

The light of day grows weary of the slander, while the monastery plays the sinner in the dark.

يتعبُ ضوء النهار من الغيبةِ

والدير فاسق العتمه

The light of day grows weary of slander

Men are exhausted by his wretched frame: a vulgar mouth and a lustful, gaping hole.

And the monastery is the iniquity of darkness

He brings calamity upon the broad-hipped youths he spots, riding a steed as pitch-black as the night.

فالناس من كوَيتهِ في تعبٍ

فمٌ بذيءٌ وفقحةٌ غلمَه

So people in their long robes are in toil

Where did you leave—when they drove deep into your rear—your haughtiness and grandeur?

A vile mouth and an outrageous boy enslaves them

By God, were a lion taken in his hindquarters, he would never drag his quarry to the den.

ينكب المُردَحين يبصرهم

على حصانٍ كأنّه عتمه

He assaults the totally submissive; he sees them

On a horse as though it is darkness

فأينَ خلّفتَ عند طعنهم

في دبرِكَ الكبرَ والعِظمَة

So where did you leave in their backs

Arrogance and greatness when they stabbed you

واللَهِ لو نيكَ في استيه أسدٌ

ما جرَّ صيداً له إلى أجمَه

By God if a lion attacked in its den

It would not drag prey to its lair