They thought thoughts, all of them false,

[Regarding] who killed him and who stripped him.

And thus did Jesus’s affair proceed

And what the people saw of his crucifixion.

It was neither killing nor crucifixion

But a likeness was made in his stead.

And the killing and crucifixion were upon a criminal,

Manifest—oh, misery to him in his war!

So if you are ignorant of him—woe to you—his person

Is from Nufayl who came, and [from] who begot him.

And from Sihak, then who bent over

The wife of Khattab, and who succeeded him.

His name is Iblis, no other,

In ancient time and in his era.