We will protect you
From him who cuts (‘enda-l-Ḳatta’)
We will protect you.
Cut, oh Cutter!
Yet hurt not [here, in turn, the names of those who
are to be circumcised are uttered],
Cut, oh Cutter!
Beware of the reed (ʿala-l-Ḳaṣab),
Oh my darling,
Beware of the reed![248]