1. A long night I spent awake
Like the sweet night of early dawn

2. Darkness had extended its sides
And hid the rising of Saud

3. Grasshoppers attacked me
Crawling on my body like monkeys

4. Crazy like the Zanj they danced
To intense rhythms and beats

5. You'd see them hopping angrily
With sounds like hammers on iron

6. They took their grudges and hostility
And stamped the evil of Jews

7. We fought a war until
The light of a new day appeared

8. Then Saad saw Sa'eed
And gave him victory over Sa'eed

9. They did to my body and tent
What fire does to a harvested field

10. When its day came I did to them
What fire does to kindling wood

11. I took my weapons and vented my rage
With the old spear and Al-Waleed

12. They had no helper against me
Except hops like the leaping of antelopes

13. Where can the sinner escape
From shackles and stubborn pain?

14. I likened them and me one morning
To what the sights ban from denying

15. To the day of the Qarmatians when
They met the pilgrims of the House on the mounts of Zarood