أبى الجهلُ إلا أن يكونَ نساؤنا

رجالٌ سوانا والرجالُ نساءُ

Ignorance insisted that our women

Become men, and our men become women

فتلكَ نساءُ الغربِ ساوينَ غيرةً

وفقنَ رجالَ المشرقِ الجهلاءُ

So those are the Western women, equal in jealousy

And they have emasculated the ignorant men of the East

وكلُّ نساءِ الشرقِ ساوينَ في الرضا

بذاكَ رجالَ المغربِ العلماءُ

And all the women of the East are equal in consent

To those learned men of the West

وآيةُ ذلِّ النفسِ أن يحكمَ الهوى

وقد أصبحَ الشرقانِ فيهِ سواءُ

And the sign of this weakness is that desire rules

And the two Easts have become equal in it