1. For a heart, stubborn or resolute,
That disobeyed all advice and guidance,

2. I am not in Salma or its neighborhoods,
Hearing in it anyone's words,

3. A soft, delicate girl allured me,
Like the wrists’ adornment in the cold,

4. And a mustache like spears whose youth
The water of fermentation sprinkled without inhibition,

5. The coquetry of her eyes is a fertile land whose slopes
Did not suffer the misery of life in a liver,

6. She steals glances with the eyes of a gazelle,
Transforming between sands and skin,

7. Have you asked war about its brothers,
When the stallions of men are covered with foam?

8. And they called out with weakened, emaciated throats
To slip the weakest from the path of the firmest,

9. An era has passed and this is an era
Lacking from every living and number,

10. And when I remind myself of what is past,
It returns to the eye like the irritation of drowsiness,

11. Of people from whom I hoped to benefit,
They faded beneath the ground,

12. And I found myself struggling after them
In the treatment of wealth, coveting distance,

13. Toiling as I reckoned I was immortalized,
Ignorant today and easing my way for tomorrow,

14. I do not see a fortress saving its people,
Every living being is to vanishing and depletion,

15. So leave falsehood and aim for piety,
And fear your Lord, it is the pledge to guidance,

16. And say good wherever it was said,
And prevent yourself from the words of defamation,

17. Of a generous, easily angered one whose injustice
Is like the Abyssinian men, deteriorating with purpose,

18. I became plump and under me is a breastplate
That mixes walking, antagonizing like an isolated person,

19. The rooster crowed with two cutting claws,
Thick below, enormous in size,

20. It agitates the lairs when you agitate it,
Mixing the turbid with approximation and pulling,

21. So the bandy-legged one set out following four,
Overtaking the slender in a smooth field,

22. The warbler of hosting, the bridle of dawn,
Extending its belt like a pier,

23. It floods the dispelled from it with a downpour,
The watcher of the litter, hyenas in the palms,