من قلد العلما واقدم أعذرا

وعلى الذي أفتاه عهدة ما اعترى

Whoever imitates knowledge and proceeds rashly

And upon the one who issued the verdict falls the blame for what was objected to

إن الشهود الملجئين إلى القضا

تبعتهم التبعات والقاضي برا

Indeed the witnesses who resorted to the judge

Their implications followed them while the judge is innocent

أمضيت ما قالوا وأنت مقلد

فأتيت معروفا وجاؤا منكرا

You implemented what they said while you are an imitator

So you came with good and they came with evil

افتوا فكان الشوك فيها حظهم

وجنيته رطبا هنيئاً ذو مرا

They issued verdicts so the thorns in them were their fortune

While you reaped them fresh, ripe, with goodness

باؤا بما باؤا وأنت مبرأ

مما تحمل من تحمل وافترى

They came with what they came with while you are innocent

Of what you carried from the one who carried and fabricated

صان الإله بهتكم اعراضهم

لك ذلك العرض المصون وطهرا

God protected their honor by your exposure of them

For you is that protected honor and purity

يا أيها الملك المجاور عامدا

جدا يهاب القرب منه من اجترى

O king, the neighbor, firm

Whose closeness is feared by whoever transgressed

السيف أصدق قلت يغري بالهدى

وبمن عليه هكذا متطهرا

The sword is more truthful in speech, it deceives with guidance

And with the one upon it thus purified

لا من إله القوم مستحيى ولا

منهم ولا ممن لقيت من الورى

Not from the god of the people, ashamed, nor

From them nor from those I met among mankind

بعت الهدى واعتضت منه ضلالة

نعم المبيع وبئس ذاك المشترى

You sold guidance and took misguidance in exchange

Excellent is the sale and miserable is that buyer

أعلى شفير القبر قمت تبيعه

ولو استعضت به الخلود لتحشرا

At the edge of the grave you stood selling it

And if you sought immortality through it, you would come together

وزعمت أن لكل ما قالوا به

وجها يؤوله به من قد قرا

And you claimed that everything they said

Has an interpretation that one who has read can interpret it with

أول فقد قال الإله وخلقه

كل إلى الباني به فقد عرا

Firstly, God has said and created

Everything leads to the Builder, so it is exposed

يحتاجنا قالوا كما نحتاجه

ويرى لنا فضلا عليه كما نرى

They said, we need Him just as He needs us

And He sees virtue in us over Him just as we see

ومصائب أخرى وأشنع قالها

ما أنت محتاج إلى أن تذكرا

And other tribulations and more monstrous things they said

That you do not need to be reminded of

إن انكروا هذا فتلك فصوصهم

يسود منها كل وجه أنكرا

If they deny this then those are their crimes

From which every reprehensible face turns dark

وزعمت أن له اصطلاحا بينكم

أبدا به معنى وأخرى أخرا

And you claimed that between you is a convention for each thing said

With a meaning for eternity and another for another

فالكفر إن يظهر على ما قاله

فلقد خبا الإسلام فيه واضمرا

So if disbelief appears for what was said

Then Islam in it has certainly diminished and withered