ذَروا آلَ سلمى ظِنَّتي وَتَعَنُّتي
وَما زَلَّ مِنّي إِنَّ مافاتَ فائِتُ
Leave off, Salma's clan, suspecting and harassing me,
and overlook whatever slipped from me; indeed, what is past is past.
وَلا تُهلِكوني بِالمَلامَةِ إِنَّما
نَطَقتُ قَليلاً ثُمَّ إِنّي لَساكِتُ
And do not destroy me with reproach; I merely
spoke a little; then I shall surely keep silent.
سَأَسكُتُ حَتّى تَحسِبوني كَأَنَّني
مِنَ الجُهدِ في مَرضاتِكُم مُتَماوِتُ
I shall keep silent until you think I am like one
feigning death from the strain of pleasing you.
أَلَم يَكفِكُم أَن قَد مَنَعتُم عَرينَكُم
كَما مَنَعَ الغيلَ الأُسودُ النَواهِتُ
Has it not sufficed you that you have already defended your lair,
as growling lions guard the thicket?
تَصيئُونَ لَحمي كُلَّ يَومٍ كَما عَلا
نَشيطٌ بِفأسٍ مَعدَنَ البُرمِ ناحِتُ
You cut away my flesh each day, just as one strikes at
a quarry of stone for cooking pots—a vigorous carver with an axe.
Sol 6.1