ما بالُ جَهلِكَ بَعدَ الحِلمِ وَالدينِ
وَقَد عَلاكَ مَشيبٌ حينَ لا حينِ
What is with your ignorance after wisdom and religion
When gray hair has overcome you, when there is no time
لِلغانِياتِ وِصالٌ لَستُ قاطِعَهُ
عَلى مَواعِدَ مِن خُلفٍ وَتَلوينِ
For the singing girls, I do not cut off their connection
In the place of the latter ones and changers
إِنّي لَأَرهَبُ تَصديقَ الوُشاةِ بِنا
أَو أَن يَقولُ غَوِيٌّ لِلنَوى بيني
I truly fear confirming the slanderers about us
Or that a deviant would say to the resolve between me
ماذا يَهيجُكَ مِن دارٍ تُباكِرُها
أَرواحُ مُختَرِقٍ هوجُ الأَفانينِ
What provokes you from a house you attack
Spirits of a piercing, passionate soul
هَل غَيرُ نُإيٍ مُحيلٍ في مَنازِلِهِم
أَو غَيرُ أَورَقَ بَينَ المُثَّلِ الجونِ
Is it other than an inhabited, beautiful place in their homes
Or other than tender between the likeness of the beautiful women
يَمشي بِها البَقَرُ المَوشِيُّ أَكرُعُهُ
مَشيَ الهَرابِذِ حَجّوا بيعَةَ الزونِ
The cattle walk slowly with it
Like the gait of the stubby one, they swore the oath of vulnerability
مُجاشِعٌ قَصَبٌ جوفٌ مَكاسِرُهُ
صِفرُ القُلوبِ مِنَ الأَحلامِ وَالدينِ
Submissive, hollow stems, their joints creaking
The hearts yellow from dreams and religion
يُنَفِّشونَ لِحاهُم بَعدَ جارِهِمُ
لا بارَكَ اللَهُ في تِلكَ العَثانينِ
They shake their beards after their neighbors'
May Allah not bless those weaklings
قالَت قُرَيشٌ وَلِلجيرانِ مَحرَمَةٌ
أَينَ الحَوارِيُّ يا فَيشَ البَراذينِ
The Quraysh said and the neighbors are prohibited
Where are the disciples, O excellent fools
بِالحَقِّ أَندُبُ يَربوعاً وَتَرفَعُني
بِحَيثُ تَقصُرُ أَيدي مالِكٍ دوني
Truly, I lament the wilderness and it elevates me
To where Malik's hands fall short of reaching me
لا تَرهَبُنَّ وَراءِ ما حَيِيتُ لَكُم
جَهلَ الغُواةِ وَخَلّوهُم وَخَلّوني
Do not fear after me the ignorance of the transgressors and their emptiness and my emptiness
If there were dreams in Tuhayyah, they would not have intercepted
لَو في طُهَيَّةَ أَحلامٌ لَما اِعتَرَضوا
دونَ الَّذي كُنتُ أَرميهِ وَيَرميني
That which I was throwing and throwing at me
We are those who caught up on the day of Dhi Najb
نَحنُ الَّذينَ لَحِقنا يَومَ ذي نَجَبٍ
وَالخَيلُ ضابِعَةٌ مِثلُ السَراحينِ
While the horses were calm like the saddle blankets
Tuhayyah has become like the madman in the helmet
أَمسَت طُهَيَّةُ كَالمَجنونِ في قَرَنٍ
وَكانَ يَمشي بَطيئاً غَيرَ مَقرونِ
And he would walk slowly, uncontrolled
I have a doctor and he has cooked his seasons
عِندي طَبيبٌ وَقَد أَحمى مَواسِمَهُ
يَكوي طُهَيَّةَ مِن داءِ المَجانينِ
Branding Tuhayyah from the disease of the insane
Why does Ukbah the fast finder criticize me?
ما بالُ عُقبَةَ خَضّافاً يُعَيِّبُني
يا رَبُّ آدَرَ مِن مَيثاءِ مَأفونِ
O Lord, pass from an unknown place of filth
O Ukbah, I am of the people who have
يا عُقبَ إِنّي مِنَ القَومِ الَّذينَ لَهُم
نُعمى عَلَيكَ وَفَضلٌ غَيرَ مَمنونِ
Favor upon you and grace that is not withheld
