1. I found people to be as diverse as the lands
Some are fertile, some are barren and dry

2. A righteous companion is like a fertile land
That gives you steady rain like aromatic plants

3. But the opposite in the region is an enemy
Who sends you scattered embers in fury

4. An unjust oppressor wrongs and defames
As the unjust attacked the innocent viciously

5. The love of life enslaved every free soul
And taught the greedy to eat what is bitter

6. It honors him, so he settles for a while
But fear keeps him from settling permanently

7. He shone but was not stirred from his dormant sleep
By eggs laid on the heated sands

8. So why does the crooked speak in pretense
And truth whispered secretly in dens

9. Speak up as if this life is but a month
We were created in its dark concealment

10. How many ‘Aad were destroyed and how many Thamud
Were warned by the pious Saleh the bitter fate

11. Slow down O fulfiller, a few days
Contained the wergild of fleeing in fear

12. Your rebuke is eternal, nothing was found
No use to blame and cause harm

13. I resorted to silence instead of wailing
As the coward resorts to fleeing in fear

14. My silence seals my lips
And I become miserly spreading my thoughts

15. While my friendship with them was long ago
A stumbling block that marred my reasoning

16. I despaired of gaining any good when
I saw good abundantly bestowed upon the wicked

17. Our worldly position was not by choice
But it came to us out of necessity