مَساجِدُكُم وَمَواخيرُكُم

سَواءٌ فَبُعداً لَكُم مِن بَشَر

Your mosques and your ablution places

Are all the same, so stay far from people

وَما أَنتُمُ بِالنَباتِ الحَميدِ

وَلا بِالنَخيلِ وَلا بِالعُشَر

You are neither good plants

Nor palm trees nor titheable crops

وَلَكِن قَتادٌ عَديمُ الجَناةِ

كَثيرُ الأَذاةِ أَبى غَيرَ شَرّ

But Qatadah, the hell-dweller

Who does great harm and accepts only evil

وَلَيلُكُم أَبَداً مُظلِمٌ

فَهَل تَرقَبونَ صَباحاً جَشَر

And your night is ever dark

Will you await a bright dawn?

فَيا لَيتَني في الثَرى لا أَقومُ

إِن اللَهَ ناداكُمُ أَو حَشَر

Would that I were in the earth, arising not

If God called you or assembled you

وَما سَرَّني أَنَّني في الحَياةِ

وَإِن بانَ لي شَرَفٌ وَاِنتَشَر

And it does not please me that I am alive

Though glory appears and spreads for me

أَرى أَربَعاً آزَرَت سَبعَةً

وَتِلكَ نَوازِلُ في اِثنَي عَشَر

I see four supported seven

And those are occurrences in twelve