لقد زعموا جهلا سُميّة شاعرا

لقد زعموا جهلا سُميّة شاعرا

فقلتُ كذبتم إذ نسبتم لهُ الشّعرا

فقلتُ كذبتم إذ نسبتم لهُ الشّعرا

Indeed, in their ignorance they claimed Sumayya was a poet.

They ignorantly claimed the poet was poisonous

So I said, “You lied when you attributed poetry to him.

So I said you lied when you attributed poetry to him

ألم تر أنّ الله قد خلق السّما

ألم تر أنّ الله قد خلق السّما

وأبعد فيها عن سميّتها الشعرى

وأبعد فيها عن سميّتها الشعرى

Have you not seen that God created the sky

Don't you see that God created the sky

And placed Sirius within it, far from the sky’s namesake?”

And kept the stars far from its toxicity