1. O rider, if you pass by, convey
My affections to Lua'y bin Ghalib

2. A messenger of a man distressed by estrangement
Grieving your remoteness, erecting barriers

3. I had gathered worries that besieged me
Before fulfilling my needs and desires

4. And I inform you of people of Shurayn and every tribe
Each has a chief of repute, honorable and esteemed

5. I seek refuge in God from the evil of your deeds
And the evil of your discord and venomous scorpions

6. And the emergence of wicked morals and vile whispers
Like the stings of serpents, truly hitting their mark

7. So remind them of God first and foremost
And the sanctity of the untouchable gazelles

8. And tell them by God who judges justly
Desist from war which will diminish your dignity

9. Whenever you ignite it, you ignite it disgracefully
It is a monster for the distant and the near

10. It severs kinship and destroys a nation
And absolves the devil of saddle and stirrup

11. And you replace the garments of glory
With ragged clothes and echoes of warriors' armor

12. And musk and camphor with abundant dust
As if the motes are the eyes of locusts

13. So beware of war, let it not seduce you
Like a cesspool whose water has turned brackish

14. It adorns itself for the people then they see it
In its consequences, has it made its companion prosper?

15. It burns without roasting the weak and sidesteps
The honored among you with unerring calamities

16. Do you not know what transpired in the war of Dahis
And draw lessons, or what occurred in the war of Hatib

17. And how much it has struck an honorable man of esteem
Tall in stature, his hospitality never failing

18. The great ashes of fire, his affair is praised
While one of pure morals, generous in battle

19. And spilled water misguidedly as if
The wind disseminated it East and West

20. A truthful man well informed of its days
And agony, agony is the knowledge of experiences

21. So sell warfare and remember
Your reckoning, and God is the best of reckoners

22. And if a man chooses a religion, then do not
Be for him a watcher other than the Lord of sieves

23. Establish for us an upright religion, for you
Are for us the goal to which the lost may be guided

24. And you are for these people a light and protection
Leading while dreams do not mislead

25. And you, if people attain essence
Yours are the meadows of Buthan, chief of burrows

26. You protect revered bodies of ancient nobility
Refined lineage, flawless and pure

27. You see seekers of needs heading to your homes
Destitute pilgrims guided by pilgrims

28. The people have known that your leadership
Is in every state the best of those who don turbans

29. And the finest in opinion and highest in way
And most honest in speech amid processions

30. So stand and pray to your Lord and touch
The pillars of this house among the planks

31. For in it you have an affliction verily proven
The morning my father guided regiments

32. His battalion spent the night in the valley
While his belongings were upon the supply camels

33. When the victory of the Lord of the Throne aided you
The King's soldiers returned them between saff and hasib

34. They fled in haste escaping, and none returned
To his family except tattered robes

35. If you perish we perish, and you destroy seasons
Lived by the words of a man who is no liar