1. Convey to my neighbor who is in despair about me,
Every neighbor is bound to depart, inevitably.

2. Your female neighbors who blame you,
Are merely making excuses to leave.

3. If they had clung to Ziyad ibn 'Amr,
With ropes, they would not have loosened their ties.

4. His mother overpowered his father over him,
So he is like the Kabilite, resembling his maternal uncles.

5. And indeed Yazid deceived me, and there was,
In Yazid, betrayal and swindling.

6. He is an Utakite, as if he were the full moon,
People praise his words and deeds.