1. يا مَن يُبارز بِالعُقوق أَباهُ

    اللَه يا شَر الأَنام أَباهُ

    O you who challenge your father with filial disobedience,

    God has rejected it, O worst of humankind!

  2. رباك مِن كار الشحاذة طامِعاً

    بَعد المَشَقَّة في بُلوغ مُناه

    He raised you by plying the beggar's trade, hoping

    After hardship, to attain his wish.

  3. حَتى إِذا أَمسيت صاحب ثَروة

    قاطَعتَه وَقَطَعتَ مِنكَ رَجاه

    Until, when you became wealthy,

    You cut ties with him and dashed his hope in you.

  4. وَطردت صبيتَهُ وَأَمّا جابرٌ

    فَكسرت خاطره وَزادَ عَناه

    And you drove out his children; as for Jabir,

    You broke his heart, and his suffering grew.

  5. وَغلقت في وَجه الأَقارب كُلِّهم

    بابَ المُروءة بئس ما تَلقاه

    And in the faces of all your relatives you shut

    The door of noble conduct—wretched is what awaits you!