1. My beloved, do not hurry me, let me be
And settle in the abode of wisdom and wait for me

2. This religion has not been for one year
Yet today it is what you see

3. The flames burn the sand dunes of the two valleys
And a man's zeal is gathered after confusion

4. It is as if you both did not know the war of Wa'il
And what it seized from Sa'dah and horses

5. And the killing of Kalib over the she-camel of Jirrirah
When he did not fear the crime of demons

6. And 'Abs spread their swords in the wager
So they perished by them while they were transient

7. And the necks inclined poetry toward their throats
To the heat of a true and piercing strike

8. Oh a man who humbles me from passion
Which in its depths my glory is destroyed

9. And a master like the master of a wolf who smelled his howl
He saw time throwing my cheeks spears

10. He called me while the sands were between us
So why did he call me while the spears were close?

11. If my spear does not reach his heart
Then my teeth in the hearts are my tongue

12. And he carried the travelers of the road his threats
So he knew the far off laughter when I came to him

13. And I said to the one who delivered the message, tell him
I will deny these words when I see him

14. So he fell slain to the threat as if I
Bent the slim-waisted spear for him

15. What! Did Sa'd conquer all the glory?
You conquered hatred and malice

16. Indeed, their bones have worn out under the dust
While your hatred does not wear out over time

17. They toss and turn in its folds and coldness
The clan of Wa'il miserably in the evil of times

18. Does the beauty of their bodies benefit the youth
When morals are not good?

19. So do not take beauty as evidence of the young man
Not every polished iron is Yemani

20. By my life, misguidance surely led our riding beasts
To the worst of creatures from animals

21. They refused to temper our necks with estrangement
While their eyes weep from affection

22. Had they neighbored Wahb, he would have cut their ropes
And removed their burdens from the shoulder and cloak

23. He would have pressed their knees to his bosom
And said, "Return before the courtyards, my heavens!"

24. Yet after estrangement, I visited a young man
Who is more generous than one whose feet lead him

25. He welcomed me in a cup of joy, saying
"Welcome!" He honored without humiliation

26. So say to the Tall Ones, Ka'b bin 'Aamir
And especially the horsemen of Hayy from Ghatafan,

27. And Bakr and those who carried spears from Tayy'
And those who gathered its branches, the two mountains

28. Return and descend to the expanse of the country, for I
Have descended to the most honorable place in the world

29. I hung on the weakness of ropes and their disgrace
With the strongest rope my hands tied

30. So fate became afraid of my arrows
And the events of time took my wishes

31. Verily, betrayal and treachery are traits in people
May God protect me from their evil and suffice me

32. He protected me from false suspicions and said
"Your worries are my worries and your affair is my affair"

33. My ribs did not settle from pounding
Nor did my heart calm from palpitations

34. I called upon Him for elevation, so He answered me
And I avoided asking Him, yet He initiated with me

35. And brought it as a generous Hatemian gift
Austere, with the two sharpened blades roaring

36. An honored gift in this time, strange
Taken care of, running without restraint

37. And I have a need that, were it not for you, its seeker
Would be difficult for every settler in the lands

38. Those seeking it hastened to obtain it
But by your life, it is an effort in vain

39. They disliked equals when the hearts of the Qan split
And the two parties inclined

40. To where are you heading while the neighbor of your homes
Pulls my pact of protection and guarantee?

41. And stays up on the walls eyeing their food
Like the wing of a crow that intended to fly

42. If God does not permit what you seek
No helper aids you in needs other than Him

43. It missed the right of manliness and watched over it
For the steeds cannot do everything at all times

44. And how many honored ones have I passed over their support
To you, while the rest are not paradises

45. You give refuge against enemies while the piercing spears are raging
And the hyenas and wild cows are thrashing about

46. I used to, if an obstacle hindered a need
For a day and night that do not apologize

47. I blamed its bad fate
And did not obligate the brothers for the sin of my time

48. I wonder at this life, how it wrongs us
For the humiliation and lowliness in it

49. And misfortunes strike us in it after
The stars of night and the two moons saw you

50. Had there been a creation above it, you would be above it
For this world is nothing, nor are the two burdens

51. I saw my tongue envying my conscience about you
And my lips envying it in praising you

52. So oh God, grant me the companionship of Wahb and his nearness
And rupture after bringing close whom You will

53. For I swear had it not been for his generosity and loyalty
I would have greeted my sword and embraced my spear