الحَمدُ لِلَّهِ قَد أَصبَحتُ في لُجَجٍ

مُكابِداً مِن هُمومِ الدَهرِ قاموسا

Praise be to Allah, though I've awoken mid-storm

Bearing the burdens of time like a lexicon's pages

قالَت مَعاشِرُ لَم يَبعَث إِلهُكُمُ

إِلى البَريَّةِ عَيساها وَلا موسى

They said, "Your god sent no Messiah to the wilds

Nor Moses with his staff held aloft in miracles."

وَإِنَّما جَعَلوا لِلقَومِ مَأَكَلَةً

وَصَيَّروا لِجَميعِ الناسِ ناموسا

Yet they made of the people a shared repast,

And for all mankind crafted a binding law.

وَلَو قَدَرتُ لَعاقَبتُ الَّذينَ طَغوا

حَتّى يَعودَ حَليفُ الغَيِّ مَرموسا

If I'd the power, I would punish those grown tyrant

Till the robe of wrongdoing lay trampled and torn.