أَبا الفَضلِ أَنتَ فَتى فارِسٍ
لَكَ الشَرَفُ الخُسرُوانيُّ كُلُّه
Abu al-Fadl, you are a young man of Persia;
You are my noble Abul Fadl
all the glory of Khosrow is yours.
To you belongs all the Khusrow honor
أَراكَ تُحَرِّمُ لَحمَ الجَزو
رِ وَلَو قامَ أَلفُ نَبِيٍّ يُحِلُّه
I see you deem camel meat forbidden,
I see you making pork unlawful
even if a thousand prophets arose to declare it lawful.
Even if a thousand prophets made it lawful
وَتَغضَبُ لِلفيلِ إِن أَزلَقو
هُ لِأَنَّ الأَعاجِمَ كانَت تُجِلُّه
And you grow angry for the elephant if they topple it,
And you get angry for the elephant
because the Persians used to revere it.
Because the non-Arabs honored it
Sol 6.1