كُلُّ جارٍ لِغايَةٍ مرْجُوّهْ

فهْوَ عِندي لمْ يعُدْ حدَّ الفُتوّهْ

Every person heading towards a hoped for goal

Is in my eyes no longer bound by childish ways

واراكَ اقْتحمْتَ ليْلاً بَهيماً

مُولِجاً منْكَ ناقَةً في كُوّهْ

I saw you break in violently one night, oh beast

Leading in your camel into its resting place

لا اتِّباعاً ولا اخْتِراعاً أرَتْنا

إذْ نظَرْنا عَروسُكَ المَجْلوَّهْ

We saw nothing original, nothing invented

When we saw your overly adorned bride

كُلُّ ما قُلْتَهُ فقدْ قالَه النا

سُ مَقالاً آياتُهُ مَتْلُوّهْ

All you have said is what people have already spoken

Its verses so often recited and intoned

لمْ تَزِدْ غيْرَ أنْ أبَحْتَ حِمى

الإعْرابِ في كلِّ لفْظَةٍ مَقْروّهْ

You’ve added nothing except to explicate

The grammar in each carefully pronounced word

فسَلِ اللهَ فكْرَةً تُلزِمُ العقْ

لَ الى حِشْمَةٍ تَحوطُ المُرُوّهْ

So ask God for an idea to compel the mind

To a seemliness that would shroud the nude

وعَزيزٌ عليّ أنْ كُنْتَ يَحْيَى

ثمّ لمْ تأخُذِ الكِتابَ بقُوّهْ

And it pains me that you were Yahya

Yet did not firmly grasp the book, the Quran