1. لعُلُوِّي جَرِبْتُ لا لانْخفَاضِي

    جَرَبي رفعةٌ وإِن كَانَ داءُ

    For my loftiness I contracted scabies, not for my lowliness.

    My scabies is exaltation, even if it is a disease.

  2. جَرِبَتْ مِثْلِيَ السَماءُ ونَاهِيـ

    ـكَ علوًّ أَن أَشْبَهْتني السَماءُ

    The sky grew scabby like me; and it is enough

    for you, as a mark of loftiness, that the sky resembled me.

  3. ولذا أَجمع الرواةُ وما خُو

    لِفَ فيها أَنَّ اسمها الجَرْبَاءُ

    Thus the transmitters agreed unanimously, without

    dissent concerning it, that its name is al-Jarbāʾ, 'the Scabby One.'