لَحا اللَهُ زَبّانَ مِن شاعِرٍ

لَحا اللَهُ زَبّانَ مِن شاعِرٍ

أَخي خَنعَةٍ غادِرٍ فاجِرِ

أَخي خَنعَةٍ غادِرٍ فاجِرِ

May God curse Zabbān as a poet,

May God destroy the tongue of a poet,

a man of baseness, treacherous and wicked.

My brother, who is cowardly, treacherous and immoral,

كَأَنَّكَ فُقّاحَةٌ نَوَّرَت

كَأَنَّكَ فُقّاحَةٌ نَوَّرَت

مَعَ الصُبحِ في طَرَفِ الحائِرِ

مَعَ الصُبحِ في طَرَفِ الحائِرِ

You are like a blossom that has flowered

As if you were a loud-mouthed woman who shone

with the dawn at the pool’s edge.

At dawn on the edge of the encampment