تَرى جَسَداً عَيناكَ تَنظُرُ ساكِناً

وَلَستَ وَلَو ناداكَ لُقمانُ تَسمَعُ

You see a body, your eyes look upon, motionless

Even if Luqman called you, you would not hear

فَإِيّاكَ إِنّي قَلَّ ما أَزجُرُ اِمرِئً

سِوى مَرَّةٍ إِنّي بِمَن حانَ مولَعُ

So beware, rarely do I deter a man

Except once, for I am enamored with the one indebted

فَذَلِكَ تَقديمي إِلَيكَ فَإِن تَكُن

شَقِيّاً تَرِد حَوضَ الَّذي كُنتَ أَمنَعُ

This is my message to you, so if you are

Wretched, you will return the basin you once refused

وَقَد شابَ صُدغاكَ اللَئيمانِ عاتِباً

عَلَينا وَفينا أُمُّكَ الغولُ تَمزَعُ

Though time has whitened your wretched cheeks blaming

Us, while in us is your ghoul mother shrieking

إِلى حُجُرِ الأَضيافِ كُلَّ عَشِيَّةٍ

بِذي حَلَقٍ تَمشي بِهِ تَتَدَعدَعُ

To the lodging of guests every evening

With the bearded one she walks with, stumbling

فَما زِلتُ عَن سَعدٍ لَدُن أَن هَجَوتُها

أَخُصُّ وَتاراتٍ أَعُمُّ فَأَجمَعُ

So I have not stopped attacking Saad since I satirized him

Specifically and in general, comprehensively

جُعِلتُ عَلى سَعدٍ عَذاباً فَأَصبَحَت

تَلاعَنُ سَعدٌ في عَذابي وَتُقمَعُ

I was made a torment upon Saad, so Saad started

Cursing in my torment, suppressing screams

تَلاعُنَ أَهلِ النارِ إِذ يَركَبونَها

وَإِذ هِيَ تَغشى المُجرِمينَ وَتَسفَعُ

Cursing the people of hell as they mount it

As it covers the criminals, blazing

أَلَم تَرَ سَعداً أَودَحَت إِذ دَكَكتُها

كَما دَكَّ آطامَ اليَمامَةِ تُبَّعُ

Have you not seen Saad how it crumbled him when I crushed him

As Tubba crushed the mounds of Yamamah

كَأَنَّ بَني سَعدٍ ضِباعُ قَصيمَةٍ

تَفَرَّعَها عَبلُ الذِراعَينِ مِصقَعُ

It is as if the Saad clan are hyenas

Whose forelegs the two-armed Misaq dismembered

تُنَفِّسُ عَنها بِالجُعورِ وَتَتَّقي

بِأَذنابِها زُبَّ المَناخِرِ طُلَّعِ

Blowing them off with their dens, and protecting

Their snouts from the claws’ stabs, peering out