حَصانٌ رَزانٌ ما تُزَنُّ بِرَيبَةٍ

حَصانٌ رَزانٌ ما تُزَنُّ بِرَيبَةٍ

وَتُصبِحُ غَرثى مِن لُحومِ الغَوافِلِ

وَتُصبِحُ غَرثى مِن لُحومِ الغَوافِلِ

Chaste and dignified, she is suspected of no wrongdoing,

A graceful steed does not fret with suspicion

and wakes hungry, having eaten none of the flesh of unsuspecting women.

And becomes ragged from the flesh of parasites

فَإِن كُنتُ أَهجوكُم كَما قَد زَعَمتُمُ

فَإِن كُنتُ أَهجوكُم كَما قَد زَعَمتُمُ

فَلا رَفَعَت سَوطي إِلَيَّ أَنامِلي

فَلا رَفَعَت سَوطي إِلَيَّ أَنامِلي

For if I have lampooned you, as you have claimed,

If I satirize you as you have claimed

then may my fingertips never raise my whip to me.

Then my fingers did not raise my whip against me

فَإِنَّ الَّذي قَد قيلَ لَيسَ بِلائِطٍ

فَإِنَّ الَّذي قَد قيلَ لَيسَ بِلائِطٍ

بِكَ الدَهرُ بَل سَعيُ اِمرِئٍ بِكَ ماحِلِ

بِكَ الدَهرُ بَل سَعيُ اِمرِئٍ بِكَ ماحِلِ

For what has been said will not cling

For what has been said is not idle

to you at any time; rather, it is a slanderer's scheming against you.

Blame the times, not a man's endeavor

وَكَيفَ وَوُدّي ما حَيِيتُ وَنُصرَتي

وَكَيفَ وَوُدّي ما حَيِيتُ وَنُصرَتي

لِآلِ نَبِيِّ اللَهِ زَينِ المَحافِلِ

لِآلِ نَبِيِّ اللَهِ زَينِ المَحافِلِ

And how could I, when my love, as long as I live, and my support

And how could my love live and my support

are for the family of God's Prophet, the adornment of gatherings?

Be for the Prophet's family, adornment of gatherings

بِأَنَّ لَهُم فَضلاً تَرى الناسَ خُضَّعاً

بِأَنَّ لَهُم فَضلاً تَرى الناسَ خُضَّعاً

لَهُ بَينَ غارٍ دونَهُ مُتَطالِلِ

لَهُ بَينَ غارٍ دونَهُ مُتَطالِلِ

For they possess such excellence that you see people bowing

For they have virtue which subdues people

before it—some sunk below it, others straining upward.

To it in a cave beneath which they take shelter