إِلَيكَ أَميرُ المُؤمِنينَ رِسالَةً

مِنَ الغَربِ تَستَقري فِجاجَ المَشارِقِ

To you, O Commander of the Faithful, I send

A message from the West to calm the tumults of the East

أُعيدُكَ بِالنُعمى مِنَ اللَهِ أَن تُرى

قُدامى جَناحِ المُسلِمينَ لِفاسِقِ

I pray to God to grant you the gift of sight

To see before me the wing of the Muslims against the sinful

أُعيرَ بَريدُ الرَقَّتَينِ غَضاضَةً

بِمُضطَرِبِ الكَفَّينِ رِخوِ البَنائِقِ

He lent the reins of the two limping camels weakness

With his trembling hands, feeble wrists

نَعى العَدلَ شَرقِيَّ البِلادِ بِجَورِهِ

عَلينا وَباعَ الناسَ ثَمَّ بَدانِقِ

He blamed the injustice of the Eastern countries

Upon us and sold the people, then fled hurriedly

لَهُ في الَّذي استُرعيهِ رَوحَةُ فاجِرٍ

بِسَوأَتِهِ الأَخرى وَدُلجَةُ سارِقِ

In what he herded is the respite of a wicked immoral

With his other evil and the darkness of a thief

إِذا ما دَعا غِلمانُهُ لِبَلِيَّةٍ

فَخَلوَتُهُ بِالعِفرِ دونَ المُراهِقِ

When his young men called to sin

His privacy with the dust instead of the youth

مُخَنَّثُ أَعراسٍ وَلَيسَ بِمُطرِبٍ

وَقَينَةُ فِتيانٍ وَلَيسَ بِعاتِقِ

Effeminate in marriages and no reveler

And the monitor of young men and no mature

يَهيجُ شَحيجَ البَغلِ مِن كَلَبِ استِهِ

وَيُطرِبُ خُصيَيهِ صِياحُ الفُرانِقِ

It provokes the lust of the mule from his arousal

And excites his testicles the shouting of young boys