1. The specters circled my companions as they slept
From Umm 'Alwan, no direction or wall to lean on

2. Disturbing some youths spending the night restless
And eyes touched by the darkness and sleeplessness

3. Will you take me to Abdallah Dawasirah
With a flask wherein aged wine ferments

4. A she-camel accustomed to having the nose rope knotted
Meeting over her mouthpiece the knot

5. As though it were the day the tribe parted from Julab
While we and the family in Al-Mawma'ah are expelled

6. An old male repelled by 'Aad from his she-camels
The drivel on his muzzle foams

7. Or an active dark-cheeked one whom the north wind has forced
To spend the night beneath it without nose rope

8. He spent the night in the warmth of carriers that were harmed
By the heat of Al-Naqa and its growth had been stripped

9. He spent the night, his side next to a resting place
That drew together its contents above and below

10. He kept mounting his she-camel and young camel
Until the ground below them became drenched with blood

11. Until when the birds chirped and the darkness of night
Receded from him while he was supported

12. He set out in the morning, and a cheek challenges him
From the north and to his east liver-colored

13. It ascends the cliff of Al-Wasm, adorned
By the colors of beautiful morning, twittering

14. At every meadow with pasture between its forearms
Quaking for it, a mast having crossbeams

15. The non-gentle, non-cool wind kept applauding it
The two-year-old, neither docile nor cold

16. It began penetrating the clouds of fog thereby
Crossing from one land to another, alone and fallen

17. It plummets like the light of a shooting star whose fire
Emitting sparks in the night, igniting

18. Until when it descended upon Al-Wuhdan and was detached
From it chains of sands interlinked

19. It met a band of destruction with its dogs
On the trail of prey, growing nothing for it to reap

20. It captured a Suluqi she-camel who had spent the night
In a desolate wilderness, inside it an only kid

21. It crept stealthily covering the ground thereby
Until she stood up and it harnessed her

22. So it wandered when she avoided it with her side
While the like of it in her previous calves were many

23. Then they recoiled to protect it after it startled
So a proud large-horned stallion charged

24. It warded them off as it bared its teeth
As a brother of a blind she-camel wards off the wolf

25. Until when its vanguards retreated from it
And death took seven of them in number

26. Among them a fallen one writhing atop its weapon
As the ostrich chicks writhe beneath the threshing sledge

27. It turned to cleave the stagnant cold with its emergence
At Dhi Al-Niaj, and atop its mount a body

28. Until the black of night donned its masks
Where the plain meets Fayhaan and Al-Jalad

29. It went just as it came or goes out as his going out
A she-camel who is generous to its rider, fulfilling

30. Circling the clan of Abu Sufyan confidently
With the merit of a shining fulfiller of what he promises

31. Asked for, the tribes seeking his attainment
The elite of each tribe around him envoys

32. It came according to the habit of generosity it was accustomed to
From one whose affairs are controlled by God’s permission

33. To a man whose likeness no female ever bore for him
Praise does not reach the utmost description of praising you

34. And none attained the like of what you attained
Goodness is not lost to people as long as you remain

35. Generosity and justice are lost if they are lost
Until it lodged before the best of creation together

36. Of the clan of Harb, ennobled by office
Umayyah became a protection for Islam

37. And for seizing it, leaders whose affair is integrity
It remains protected, tending to it being blinded

38. Shrouding time except when it becomes scattered