1. Who sees the camel train of Ibn Arwa
On the surface of Marw, their saddles

2. Ascending, while the house is the house of my father, and
Love is empty, where the north wind moans?

3. The ignorant, misguided knows that fate
In it are the baseborn and tremors.

4. I wish I knew, was that your way, or were they
Men, like those who perish and perished?

5. After you knew, O mother of Zayd,
Among them was glory for us and beauty.

6. And faces shining with our love,
And plenty, when plenty is sought.

7. The house has changed, in the neighborhood
Faces, as if they are slaughter.

8. Men connive therein everything
Except that death has no connivance.

9. By the life of God, if the sword had functions
And the tongue had speech,

10. I would not forget you, sincerity and love
And preoccupations would not prevent you.

11. And I would forbid your mutilated flesh.
Straying, their sanity strayed, how they assassinated!

12. Their words “you drank wine,” yet there was
A drink other than wine, lawful.

13. And the evident refused enmity
Except malice and words not said

14. From men who borrowed atrocities
To get what they wanted, so they got

15. Other than what we sought from them, but
Fate turned upon men, so they turned.

16. Who would betray you sincerity
Or change, or fail, as shadows fail?

17. Know that I am your brother, brother of love,
My life, until the mountains fail.

18. There is no stinginess toward you in my property
Never lacking sandals, meeting.

19. And you have victory by the tongue and palm
When there are functions for the hands.