عَلَيكَ جَديدَ وَجهِكَ فَاِبتَذِلهُ

عَلَيكَ جَديدَ وَجهِكَ فَاِبتَذِلهُ

فَقَد خَلّاكَ رَبُّكَ لِلسُؤالِ

فَقَد خَلّاكَ رَبُّكَ لِلسُؤالِ

Take your still-fresh face and wear it out,

Show your new face though it be trite,

For your Lord has left you to beg.

For your Lord made you for serving slight.

كَأَنَّكَ إِذ عَلِقتَ بِعَردَمِيٍّ

كَأَنَّكَ إِذ عَلِقتَ بِعَردَمِيٍّ

سَمَوتَ إِلى أُمَيَّةَ بِالحِبالِ

سَمَوتَ إِلى أُمَيَّةَ بِالحِبالِ

As though, when you clung to a thick phallus,

You were like one who climbed in yearning love,

You had climbed to Umayya by ropes.

To Umayya on a rope from ardent passion wove,

لَقَد تَرَكَ النِكاحُ أَبا سُلَيمٍ

لَقَد تَرَكَ النِكاحُ أَبا سُلَيمٍ

كَظَهرِ الطَستِ لَيسَ بِذي قِبالِ

كَظَهرِ الطَستِ لَيسَ بِذي قِبالِ

Intercourse has indeed left Abu Sulaym

Wedlock left Abul-Sulaymi so outworn,

Like the back of a basin, without a strap.

Like back of skillet, of all fat shorn.