وخيرية جاءت من الهند بغتة

وخيرية جاءت من الهند بغتة

وخص بها ظلماً أهيل النمارق

وخص بها ظلماً أهيل النمارق

And a charitable gift came suddenly from India,

Generosity came suddenly from India

and the petty folk of the cushions were unjustly singled out for it.

Yet the people of Namar were oppressed by it unjustly

جرى قلم فيها وجف وقد جرت

جرى قلم فيها وجف وقد جرت

على نهجه أقلام كل منافق

على نهجه أقلام كل منافق

A pen ran over it and dried, and there had already run

A pen flowed in it and dried though streams

along its course the pens of every hypocrite.

Of the pens of every hypocrite flowed according to its path