1. Zainab approached, the riders halting
Between the soft sands and the dripping dew.

2. By the valley of standards, here once more,
After the bustards took flight and the locust swarmed.

3. Greetings and honor to your imagination,
Greetings and honor, a warm welcome!

4. How did you find your way, who guided you to us
When our burdens are few and our hopes unsure?

5. You claimed your people deterred you from me
Yet my people are kinder and more desirous.

6. Have I no kin, that you shun me,
They will flock to me, I who am sought?

7. If you draw near, modestly I'll approach,
If you distance, what's behind me is wider.

8. Your affection refuses to let me fall short,
A mind I live by and reflect I perturb.