1. Answer my call, my love, should you hear it,
Don't be constantly happy or in dread.

2. Be as if you never felt dread,
Whenever an angry virgin meets a virgin.

3. Yet keep in awe of our spears,
O sons of Abd Bakr, and gaze intently.

4. At a people who have treated you harshly, as though
You were thirsty, given no milk or wine.

5. Do not allege it was the rugged land protected you,
When the rugged land protected neither belly nor back.

6. You cannot prevent it, yet you
Are still made to pay it, willy nilly.

7. We have pressed you hard, as though
We hunted oryx and gray rabbits with hounds.

8. Nor did you shoot arrows into the plain, saving when
You repulsed the attack of Ibn Harb and the yellow Syrian woman.

9. By a man of diverse skills, both inquirer and his friends,
No harm was done them in battle, nor any shame.

10. Ask [our enemies] Hanash and Ibn Malik
About our war, and your grandfather did not return fleers or cavalry.

11. We drove him off into enemy land, till the faces
Of [his clan] Sufyan turned sallow because of us.

12. Had the rope of the sons of Tarif been hanging
On my most honorable kinsmen, they would have stirred up trouble against them.

13. Verily their neighbor was a slain man and a fearful one
Deaf — they increased his deafness and repelled him.