أيُّها الأعورُ لِمْ جشَّمْتَني

أيُّها الأعورُ لِمْ جشَّمْتَني

أن أشُقَّ الرمسَ عن والدتِكْ

أن أشُقَّ الرمسَ عن والدتِكْ

O one-eyed man, why have you forced me

O one-eyed man, why did you deface me?

To split open the grave that covers your mother?

Why did you force me to disturb my mother's grave?

بئسما بدَّلتَها في لحدِها

بئسما بدَّلتَها في لحدِها

بالذي رجَّتْهُ من عائدتِكْ

بالذي رجَّتْهُ من عائدتِكْ

Wretched is what you have given her in her tomb

How wretchedly you changed her in her coffin

In place of the kindness she had hoped for from you.

To that which you hoped for from your returning.

إن تكن ثبَّجتَ شعري ظالماً

إن تكن ثبَّجتَ شعري ظالماً

فرماكَ اللَّهُ في واحدتِك

فرماكَ اللَّهُ في واحدتِك

If you have unjustly garbled my verse,

If you found my poetry unjust,

Then may God strike you in your sole remaining eye

Then may God cast you into solitude.

بظلامٍ تُسلم الكفَّ له

بظلامٍ تُسلم الكفَّ له

أبدَ الدهرِ إلى قائدتك

أبدَ الدهرِ إلى قائدتك

With darkness that makes you surrender your hand

Into a darkness that hands themselves over to,

Forever to your female guide.

For eternity, to your leadership.

قد رمينا ما تبرّدْتَ به

قد رمينا ما تبرّدْتَ به

بلظى ذوَّبٍ من جامدتك

بلظى ذوَّبٍ من جامدتك

We have indeed assailed what you offered as cold wit

We have cast what you have cooled down with,

With a blaze that melted some of your frozen verse.

With the intense melting heat of your rigidity.

بدرت بادرةٌ من شرري

بدرت بادرةٌ من شرري

ألهبتْ ناري في خامِدَتك

ألهبتْ ناري في خامِدَتك

An outburst sprang from my sparks

A spark burst forth from my embers,

That kindled my fire within your extinguished fire,

And lit my dormant fire in your frigidity.

بعدما أتْرزَ أرواح الورى

بعدما أتْرزَ أرواح الورى

برْدُ ما لاقوهُ من واردتك

برْدُ ما لاقوهُ من واردتك

After the souls of mankind had been frozen to death

After the souls of all people took shelter,

By the chill of what they encountered from your offerings.

From the cold they met from your downpour.

فاستعاذوا لك من بادرتي

فاستعاذوا لك من بادرتي

واستعاذوا بيَ من باردَتِك

واستعاذوا بيَ من باردَتِك

So they sought protection for you from my outburst,

So they sought refuge for you from my sparks,

And sought refuge in me from your cold wit.

And sought refuge in me from your iciness.