1. يا اِبنَ المُعَلِّمِ ما لِدائِكَ

    في الحَماقَةِ مِن مُعالِج

    O Ibn al-Mu'allim, for your affliction

    of stupidity there is no healer.

  2. يا حائِكاً أَدمى أَنا

    مِلَ كَفِّهِ كَفُّ الصَهارِج

    O weaver, whose fingertips were bloodied

    by the lining of cisterns;

  3. إِن لَم تَكُن بِزرَ اليَهودِ

    فَأَنتَ مِن نَسلِ الخَوارِج

    if you are not the seed of the Jews,

    then you are of Kharijite stock.

  4. فَأَصِخ لِسَفعٍ في هِجائِكَ

    قَد مَلَأتُ بِهِ المَدارِج

    So listen to the scorching satire against you:

    I have filled the scrolls with it.

  5. يَرميكَ شَيطانُ القَوا

    في مِن لَوافِحِكَ بِمارِج

    The demon of rhyme pelts you

    with a smokeless flame among the blasts that scorch you.

  6. يَحلو هِجاؤُكَ لي وَأَن

    تَ أَمَرُّ مِن حُبِّ الأَيارِج

    Satirizing you is sweet to me, though you

    are bitterer than iyarij pills.