1. O rider, if you pass by Tamim and this clan of Ghatafan
Why didn’t you remain steadfast in attaining the noble goal?

2. I used to be like one with two legs, one sound
And one impaired, still in its infancy

3. As for the one that was paralyzed, I strengthened it
And as for the one that was sound, I strengthened Oman

4. Ibn Harb escaped while swimming, his provisions depleted
Bleating, defeated, while the spears lunged again and again

5. Riding crooked-legged horses as if
He were a shah of Persia at the height of his glory

6. His expert hand wielding the blacksmith’s hammer
Relieving his camels’ distress with honey and date fruits

7. As if there were a vicious hawk under his saddle
Attempting to reach its nest in full flight

8. Salim, the lion, Abil, the fiery, Shunj, the intrepid
Agab, the bushy-haired, exploring the plateau

9. When I said the summits of the lofty mountains bowed down to him
His legs and feet carried him up their slopes

10. So he became like the morning star at daybreak, as if
He and it were racing to enter the same hole

11. With mutual love, if they would reconcile
And cease their discord, since both are kings

12. When tested with deep water, you would see him
Like the coming violent storm with billowing waves

13. As if the shoulders of his saddle and his bridle
When drenched were dyed with red and green paint

14. Or henna, as if his horse blanket
Was recently embellished with paint

15. May he reward him for the favor he had shown
When he was not disgraced at the royal court

16. Shrewd, decisive, deliberate and quick
Like the black hyena, devourer of marrow and fat

17. We did not kill donkeys, pigs, or mules
Except on the day of the battle of Awan

18. Nor were the Quraysh and Aamir tribe slain
Buried at Siffin until the arbitrators ruled

19. We overwhelmed them at the battle of Harir with a
Violent Yemeni army like the torrents of ‘Iran

20. So the people of Sham raised the banners
Above which is the word of God, the best recitation

21. And called: “O son of the Prophet's uncle ‘Ali
Do you not fear the destruction of the two weighty ones?”

22. “Who will remain for our children and wives
And who will protect our sanctity, O youths?”

23. I weep for Ubayd when he stoops with his chest
The morning after battle, when the two mountains collided

24. And we continued to weep for Dhi’l Kila and Hawshab
Whenever the two moons were mentioned

25. And Malik, Laljlaj, Sakhr and the young man
Muhammad, for whom the two seas overflowed

26. So do not let your confusion lead you astray
And He has given you glad tidings of His victory in Paradise

27. The cavalry of Hamdan never stopped trampling them
Chestnut and others, their origins unclear

28. So they stood up three times, while the birds
Ate from them, leaving only half their faces

29. The low-born sons of slave women did not expect
Any noble, easy going Yemeni youth

30. Whoever sees our two cavalry meet at dawn would say
Two mountains, Jailan and Jailan, collide

31. As if they were two fires inside a coal-black darkness
With no wood, blazing till dawn

32. A lightning-like stallion stained with blood
Whose direction is revealed by a flash lighting the horizons

33. It gives generously when it gallops and flows gracefully when it glides
Wearing a coat no fleas can penetrate

34. We killed and spared lives, and not everything you see
Results from the power of the scatterer who enjoys basil

35. The Thaqif tribe fled, so God scattered them
To the Mount of Olives and the Tar Hills

36. It was as if I saw them throwing off their clothes
In panic and fear, chased away

37. Oh what sorrow that I could not witness them
To bite their flesh with my teeth

38. As for the Bani Nasr tribe, their refugees fled
To the Salatan marshes and the Ajlan valley

39. The Tamim tribe fled them, Sa’d and Rabab
To where the sour and the jujube trees grow

40. The Bani Widd tribe stubbornly resisted the banners
To Abil in humiliation and disgrace