قل للذي ما تأدَّبْ

مع العلوم وأهلها

Say to the one who was not refined

Among sciences and their people

يصبر لحط البرايا

عليه والنقرات

He endures the striking of hailstones

Upon him and pecking

عاصي يزيد الشريعة

يدعوه ثوراً ويصبغه

A rebel augmenting legislation

Calling him a bull and dyeing him

بالنيل والنهر الأسود

ولو حكى ابن فرات

With the Nile and the black river

Even if the son of Euphrates recounted