أَبلِغ حُباشَةَ أَنّي غَيرُ تارِكِهِ

حَتّى أُخَبِّرَهُ بَعضَ الَّذي كانا

Tell Habashah that I will not leave him

Until I inform him of some of what has passed between us

قَد نَحبِسُ الحَقَّ حَتّى لا يُجاوِزَنا

وَالحَقُّ يَحبِسُنا في حَيثُ يَلقانا

We may detain the truth so that it does not go beyond us

And the truth detains us wherever it finds us