الزَنجُ أَكرَمُ مِنكُمُ وَالرومُ

وَالحَينُ أَيمَنُ مِنكُمُ وَالشومُ

The black man is more honorable than you, and the Romans

And the present is more auspicious than you, and ill omens

عَيّاشُ إِنَّكَ لَلَّئيمُ وَإِنَّني

مُذ صِرتَ مَوضِعَ مَطلَبي لَلَئيمُ

Ayash, you are despicable and I

Have become despicable since I made you the target of my desire

السُحتُ أَطيَبُ مِن نَوالِكَ مَطمَعاً

وَالمُهلُ وَالغِسلينُ وَالزَقّومُ

Begging from you is more bitter than colocynth

And aloeswood, purging cassia and poison

نَجِسٌ تُدَبِّرُ أَمرَهُ شِيَمٌ لَهُ

شُكسٌ يُدَبِّرُ أَمرَهُنَّ اللومُ

An unclean man managing his affairs, a disgrace to him

A graceless woman managing their affairs, blameworthy

وَمَنازِلٌ لَم يَبقَ فيها ساحَةٌ

إِلّا وَفيها سائِلٌ مَحرومُ

And residences in which no area remains

Without a deprived beggar

عَرَصاتُ سوءٍ لَم يَكُنَّ لِسَيِّدٍ

وَطَناً وَلَم يَرتَع بِهِنَّ كَريمُ

Lands of evil that have never belonged to a master

Nor grazed in them a generous man

لَمّا بَدا لي مِن صَميمِكَ ما بَدا

بَل لَم يُصَب لَكَ لا أُصيبَ صَميمُ

When what emerged from your innermost being emerged to me

But no, your innermost being was not harmed

جَرَّدتُ في ذَمّيكَ خَيلَ قَصائِدٍ

حالَت بِكَ الدُنيا وَأَنتَ مُقيمُ

I unleashed in your condemnation the steeds of poems

While you remain still, the world turned against you

أَلحَقنَ بِالجُمَّيزِ أَصلَكَ صاغِراً

وَالشيحُ يَضحَكُ مِنكَ وَالقَيصومُ

I made your origin meet the hyena groveling

And the jackal laughs at you and the little mourning owl

طَبَقاتُ شَحمِكَ لَيسَ يَخفى أَنَّها

لَم يَبنِها آءٌ وَلا تَنّومُ

The layers of your fat, it is clear they were not built

By a mason or a carpenter

يا شارِباً لَبَنَ اللِقاحِ تَعَزِّياً

الصَبرُ مَن يَقنيهِ وَالحالومُ

Oh you who drinks the milk of flowers vauntingly

Patience, who attains it, and dreams

وَالمُدَّعي صورانَ مَنزِلَ جَدِّهِ

قُل لي لِمَن أَهَناسُ وَالفَيّومُ

And pretends the abode of his grandfather is Suran

Tell me, to whom belongs Ahanas and Fayyum