1. أَلَم يَنزِلِ القُرآنُ خَلفَ بُيوتِنا

    صَباحاً وَمِنَ الصَباحِ مَساءُ

    Was the Quran not revealed behind our homes

    in the morning—and from morning comes evening?

  2. يُنازِعُني وَاللَهُ بَيني وَبَينَهُ

    يَزيدٌ وَلَيسَ الأَمرُ حَيثُ يَشاءُ

    Contending with me—and God is between me and him—is

    Yazid; yet the matter is not as he wishes.

  3. فَيا نُصَحاءَ اللَهِ أَنتُم وُلاتُهُ

    وَأَنتُم عَلى أَديانِهِ أُمَناءُ

    So, O faithful counselors of God, you are His stewards,

    And you are trustees over His religions.

  4. بِأَيِّ كِتابٍ أَم بِأَيَّةِ سُنَّةٍ

    تَناوَلَها عَن أَهلِها البُعَداءُ

    By what scripture, or by what tradition,

    did the outsiders take it from its people?