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And has the news of the deceitful one not reached you, and what he brought of falsehood and forgery?

Flawed in its reasoning and perspective, stripped bare of decency for all observers to see.

A foundling picked up by my fierce rebuttal, suspicious like offspring born of illicit union.

It turned away from tangible truths and bypassed self-evident realities.

He packed it with his judgments upon nations—ruin take him as a judge and what a judgment!

Premises followed by conclusions, yet their internal bonds are utterly dissolved.

He assaulted history while it shone bright, but the speech of fabricators stumbles and stammers.

And he denied the established virtues of those who became the light of dark eras.

He singled out with blame and depreciation Sam and his two sons specifically.

And whoever possesses a close lineage devalued every ancient and noble descent.

O deceived one, no matter how much you increase in pride, you will never reach the towering original stock.

Does your kind possess any share of prophecy, purity of seed, or noble descent?

Or any loftiness of spirit and conscience, or elevation of thought and reflection?

A fraction of what was bequeathed to us by the Friend of God and his blessed, illustrious progeny.

And do you possess what Israel erected, or what Ishmael built for the truth?

O deceived one—or barking cat—it does not frighten the lion that a cat yowls.

O deceived one, glory is neither acquired nor stripped away by your defamation of others.

O deceived one, had you praised your people for what is actually in them without exaggeration, it would have been safer.

And you would not have found anyone criticizing the book or demanding blame and reproach from you.

But you crossed your prescribed limits and uttered a fabricated, rejected speech.

So do not blame pens when they rise for battle; the one who has suffered a wound is not to be blamed.

Whoever throws stones at people without right, they pelt him with truth and falsehood alike.

Whoever strikes at them is struck in return, and the day of encounter will be severe.

Whoever disparages whomever he pleases and acts as he wishes—time does not bend to him.

I have spoken, so listen to what is said in response to you, refuting and crushing you while dust fills your mouth.

Indeed, the wicked dog often drags ruin upon his own people by what he pulls.

We are fiercely jealous that our noble traits be degraded, for the free person is entrusted with the glory of ancestors.

You denied the excellence of the Arabs in what they pioneered of righteous deeds that cannot be denied.

You denied what they constructed for civilization and what they clothed it in of brilliant ornaments.