1. يا بَنِي غُنْمِ بْنِ عَوفٍ ما لكم

    تَجعلونَ الدِّينَ كَيْداً وضِرارا

    O sons of Ghunm ibn Awf, what is wrong with you,

    that you make religion a scheme and a means of harm?

  2. أغَضِبْتُم إذ بَنَى إخوتُكم

    في قباءٍ مَسجِداً يهدِي الحَيَارى

    Did you grow angry when your brothers built

    in Quba a mosque that guides the bewildered,

  3. فاتّخذتُمْ غَيْرَهُ تَبغونه

    فِتنةً للنّاسِ جَهْلاً وَاغْتِرارا

    so you set up another, intending it

    as a source of discord for the people, in ignorance and self-delusion?

  4. وَجَمعتم فيهِ من أشياعِكم

    كُلَّ غاوٍ يجعلْ السُّوآى شِعَارَا

    And you gathered in it, from among your followers,

    every errant man who makes utter wickedness his emblem,

  5. مُفْتَرٍ يَهْذِي بقولِ الزُّورِ في

    سَيِّدِ الرُّسْلِ ويُؤذيه جِهارا

    a fabricator who babbles falsehoods about

    the master of the messengers and openly harms him.

  6. يا بنِي غُنمِ بنِ عَوْفٍ إنّها

    شِيَمُ الحَمْقَى وأخلاقُ السُّكَارى

    O sons of Ghunm ibn Awf, these are indeed

    the ways of fools and the manners of drunkards.

  7. استفِيقُوا إنّه قد جاءكم

    من جُنودِ اللهِ أقوامٌ غَيارى

    Come to your senses: indeed, there have already come to you

    from God's hosts, bands of zealous men.

  8. قال مَولاهم هَلُمُّوا فاهْدِمُوا

    مَسجدَ السُّوءِ جِدَاراً فَجِدارا

    Their master said, 'Come, then demolish

    the mosque of evil, wall after wall,

  9. وَابْعَثُوا النّارَ عليهِ جَهرةً

    إنّما المؤمنُ مَنْ يُصْليهِ نارا

    and unleash fire upon it openly;

    only he who burns it with fire is a believer.'

  10. صَدَعُوا بالأمرِ وازْدَادَ الأُلَى

    طَاوَعُوا الفاسِقَ ذُلّاً وصَغَارا

    They openly obeyed the command, and all the more were those who

    obeyed the evildoer humiliated and abased.

  11. زَيَّنَ الفاحِشةَ الكُبْرَى لهم

    فَأَتَوْها لا يخافونَ البَوَارا

    He made the greatest abomination seem fair to them,

    so they committed it, fearing no ruin.