يا أَخَوَينا مِن أَبينا وَأُمِّنا

إِلَيكُم وَعِندَ اللَهِ وَالرَحِمِ العُذرُ

O our brothers from our father and mother

To you, and with God and kinship, is our excuse

أَلا تَقبَلونَ النَصفَ مِنّا وَأَنتُمُ

بَنو عَمِّنا لا بَلَّ هامَكُمُ القَطرُ

Will you not accept half from us while you are

The sons of our uncle? Nay, your carelessness misleads you

سَنَأبى كَما تَأبَونَ حَتّى تُلينَكُم

صَفائِحُ بُصرى وَالأَسِنَّةِ وَالأَصرُ

We will refuse just as you refuse, until your

Swords of Buṣrā and tongues and clans soften

أَيُؤكَلُ مَولانا وَمَولى اِبنِ عَمِّنا

مُقيمٌ وَمَنصورٌ كَما نُصِرَت جَسرُ

Is our master and the master of Ibn 'Ammuna’s son

To be eaten while Muqīm and Manṣūr are given victory like Jayshur?

فَتِلكَ الَّتي لَم يَعلَمِ الناسُ أَنَّني

خَنَعتُ لَها حَتّى يُغَيِّبَني القَبرُ

That is what the people did not know I humbled myself to

Until the grave takes me away

فَلَيتَكُمُ قَد حالَ دونَ لِقائِكُم

سِنونَ ثَمانٍ بَعدَها حِجَجٌ عَشرُ

If only years of eight, then pilgrimages of ten

Had come between us before meeting you

أَجَدِّيَ لا أَلقاكُمُ الدَهرَ مَرَّةً

عَلى مَوطِنٍ إِلّا خُدودُكُمُ صُعرُ

My grandfather, I will never meet you again in life

Except your cheeks have become withered

إِذا ما دُعوا لِلبَغيِ قاموا وَأَشرَقَت

وُجوهُهُمُ وَالرُشدُ وِردٌ لَهُ نَفرُ

When called to tyranny they stand up, their faces shine

And righteousness has a group of them as followers

فَوا عَجَبا حَتّى خُصَيلَةُ أَصبَحَت

مَوالِيَ عِزٍّ لا تَحِلُّ لَها الخَمرُ

What a wonder! Even the riffraff have become

Loyalists of honor, wine is not permitted for them

أَلَمّا كَشَفنا لَأمَةَ الذُلِّ عَنكُمُ

تَجَرَّدتَ لا بِرٌّ جَميلٌ وَلا شُكرُ

When we uncovered you to the nation of humiliation

You came forth with neither good nor gratitude

فَإِن يَكُ ظَنّي صادِقاً تَجزَ مِنكُمُ

جَوازي الإِلَهِ وَالخِيانَةُ وَالغَدرُ

If my assumption is right, you will receive from God

Rewards, and treachery and betrayal