1. O sons of Sulaym, if you meet Fak'as
Imprisoned in a narrow, rugged place

2. Then attack them with your swords and spears
And a night raid like pouring rain

3. Until you destroy their group and remember
The boulder and its fate without revenge

4. And horsemen of ours who were killed there
In a decade that was of time

5. Rabee'ah met in the fray and was struck
With a piercing stab to the chest

6. With a straightened, dense-flanked blade
Like a swooping eagle's talons

7. And Rabee'ah survived that day exhausted
Not slowing in his flowing generosity

8. So the smooth-tongued camels brought him
Like an eagle returning to its nest

9. And we seized Khalid but 'Awf gave him asylum
And released him for his worth

10. And our view of Khalid was corrected
However many steeds, late in time