إذهب فأنتَ طليقُ عِر

إذهب فأنتَ طليقُ عِر

ضِكَ ذَلَّ حتّى قد حَماكا

ضِكَ ذَلَّ حتّى قد حَماكا

Go, for you are free; your honor

Go, for you are free to roam

has sunk so low that it has shielded you.

My land, though it has been made desolate

إنَّ المُضيّعَ شعرَهُ

إنَّ المُضيّعَ شعرَهُ

عين المضيّعِ مَن هجاكا

عين المضيّعِ مَن هجاكا

Indeed, the one who wastes his verse—

He who wastes his time destroys

the very squanderer—is whoever has lampooned you.

His eyes, and the eyes of those who revile you

إنّي سأصرفُ صائناً

إنّي سأصرفُ صائناً

عنك الهجِاءَ إلى سِواكا

عنك الهجِاءَ إلى سِواكا

Indeed, to safeguard my verse, I shall turn

I will surely turn away, protecting

satire away from you and toward someone else.

You from revilement, to others

أَسَلُ الذي خلق البريّة

أَسَلُ الذي خلق البريّة

أَن يََراكَ كما أراكا

أَن يََراكَ كما أراكا

I ask the One who created all creatures

I ask Him who created the wilderness

to see you as I see you.

To see you as I see you