1. Why do the envious plot against my struggle?
Their oaths in archery are all aimed at my left side.

2. I am the renowned, fierce warrior nearly toppled
By slander whose pillars collapsed into untruth.

3. Yet the foes never marred the edge of my blade,
Nor did the envious drink the water of my whetstone.

4. When the lineage of a people declines, my home
Is the summit of glorious ancestry.

5. And cease telling of hands that attack and tongues that speak,
And spears brandished high with sharp tips.

6. I split the armor of Al-Khalidi with eloquence
That rips all enemies with shattering force.

7. And Al-Milhi fought me over her, so his claws
Were wounded by my arrows at dawn.

8. As for Ali the salt seller in An-Nawa,
When I gained the mother of Al-Khalidi, what was that to me?

9. Why did he not approach me when he slipped away
After his eyes saw the edge of my blade?

10. He would vacate his house for secret plans
Whenever a friend or loved one came to visit.

11. Yet he would lend it out for five dirhams
To pale-faced ones, a heavy sum.

12. I pride myself in remembering God on all sides.
Pride in remembering God, nothing else makes me proud.

13. Averting their gazes, humbled into lowness,
And the length of their right hands shortened.

14. They love, but it benefits only their lover,
The morning after, as their tryst approaches its end.

15. With it Al-Milhi makes lawful his armor at times,
And at times my sacrosanct household and family.

16. So if you wish to gain the companionship of a delicate gazelle,
With tender cheeks or a gentle doe,

17. Present to him the newborn calf, and sway it
With a maiden of pure, limpid water.

18. Only meet him with the best means,
Where goodness appears on his face.

19. With a falcon, if you release it, it will hunt whatever
You intend, or obtain whatever is attained.

20. It will carry him on the back of a galloping steed
That concludes what it bears with the worst outcome.

21. And it will know that peace was safety
For it, and shade that tells of departure.