إِنَّ حبناءَ كانَ يُدعى جُبيراً

إِنَّ حبناءَ كانَ يُدعى جُبيراً

فَدَعَوه مِن لؤمهِ حبناءَ

فَدَعَوه مِن لؤمهِ حبناءَ

Indeed, Ḥabnāʾ used to be called Jubayr.

Our love was once called Jubeir

So, for his baseness, they called him Ḥabnāʾ.

But his wickedness earned him Habna

وَلَدَ العُورَ مِنهُ وَالبُرصَ وَالجذ

وَلَدَ العُورَ مِنهُ وَالبُرصَ وَالجذ

مى وَذو الداءِ ينتجُ الأدواءَ

مى وَذو الداءِ ينتجُ الأدواءَ

From him were born the one-eyed, the white-spotted, and the lep—

He sired the blind, the leprous, the lame

—ers; and one afflicted with disease begets diseases.

And the diseased beget only pain