جُر يا غُرابُ وَأَفسِد لَن تَرى أَحَداً

إِلّا مُسيئاً وَأَيُّ الخَلقِ لَم يَجُرِ

Pull, o raven, and spoil, you will see no one

Except a wrongdoer, and who of creation has not wronged?

فَخُذ مِنَ الزَرعِ ما يَكفيكَ عَن عُرُضٍ

وَحاوِلِ الرِزقَ في العالي مِنَ الشَجَرِ

So take from the crops enough to spare you from death

And seek provision in the heights of the trees

وَما أَلومُكَ بَل أَوليكَ مَعذِرَةً

إِذا خَطَفتَ ذُبالَ القَومِ في الحُجَرِ

And I do not blame you, but give you an excuse

If you snatch the pots of the people from the room

فَآلُ حَوّاءَ راعوا الأُسدَ مُخدِرَةً

وَلَم يُنادوا بِسِلمٍ رَبَّةَ الوَجُرِ

The descendants of Eve tended to the drowsy lion

And did not call for peace the goddess of the room

وَمَن أَتاهُم بِظُلمٍ فَهُوَ عِندَهُمُ

كَجالِبِ التَمرِ مُغتَرّاً إِلى هَجَرِ

And whoever wronged them is to them

Like the bringer of dates, deceived to Hajar

هُمُ المَعاشِرُ ضاموا كُلَّ مَن صَحِبوا

مِن جِنسِهِم وَأَباحوا كُلَّ مُحتَجِرِ

They are companions who have all those they accompanied

Of their kind and permitted everything stored

لَو كُنتَ حافِظَ أَثمارٍ لَهُم يَنَعَت

ثُمَّ اِقتَرَبتَ لَما أَخلَوكَ مِن حَجَرِ

If you were guarding fruit for them you would spoil

Then approached, they would not spare you from the room