إِن صَحَّ ما قالوا وَما أَرجَفوا

وَأَلصَقوا زوراً بِدينِ العَميد

If what they said proves true, and what they trumpeted,

And falsely pinned upon the creed of Al-'Amīd,

فَكُفرُ طَهَ عِندَ دَيّانِهِ

أَحَبُّ مِن إِسلامِ عَبدِ الحَميد

Then the disbelief of Ṭāhā in his Lord's view

Is dearer than the Islam of 'Abd al-Ḥamīd.