1. My heart healed except from the sorrows of love,
With which an obstinate prince afflicted me, and so we parted.

2. They brought beauty and adornment closer to separation,
With redness from the mud of Iraq and blackness.

3. They wandered with beasts that no longer visit you after
The rising of Al-Bazee to go hunting.

4. Pillars for goblets, goblets held by Hameez,
That stir up cats, if not for their scratched gowns.

5. They want the desert when the sheep herders of
Awf ibn Bakr and Ahoud cannot endure it.

6. If I say they have won or gained what they sought,
They throw it back to the farthest seer.

7. If you want to be amused by some of their talk,
They raise and lower the trained cat.

8. And say to their singers, narrate to us,
About Al-Hadra or the daughter of Al-Kinani.

9. They lessen, when summer confronts the cooking pot,
And heat intensifies doubt, so it is wasted.

10. I did not befriend Umm Muhalim
And Duhma except to rave and suppress my rage.

11. When my heart nearly faces the eminent ones,
On them rest the burdens of youth, so I wavered.

12. I do not see Al-Fazra except with anticipation
And Khaifa, protected by the clan of Umm Ajrad.

13. And in the morning Umm Malik interpreted
For Al-Radi satisfaction from the Sultan, so he threatened.

14. If not for Yazid the son of kings and his generosity,
I would have donned the hide of great harm and enmity.

15. How many ropes of yours saved me from oppression,
Although if an elephant were struck by them it would rip apart.

16. It defended me the day Ghamra was pitch black
And worries that make me forget the trimmed beard.

17. It remained loyal in Damascus to the bite of a snake
That does not let the healthy sleep if it bites, and aims straight.

18. It weakens him at times when it sees
A radiant face, insisting and exhausting him.

19. Abu Khalid, you defended my dignity
And reached my flesh before it could disintegrate.

20. You extinguished for me Numaan's fire after
He kindled it for a helpless matter and became detached.

21. When Numaan saw beneath me the son of Hurra,
He folded the leather for he could not reach me and turned away.

22. He met a man whose covenant the people do not break,
He commanded the strong, not the weak, so he reaped.

23. A brother of loyalty, his people's betrayal does not tempt him
Nor absence from him if he is reunited.

24. It is as if the needy throng around Mu'ab
The choicest of the neighing two-year old horses.

25. He writhed and resolved war until it submitted
To him in his gray hair and reddish complexion.

26. The Quraish did not find in their affairs after him
One more chaste, loyal, and glorious.

27. The firmest pillar when their affairs narrowed
And Mu'add intended to plot and smother them.

28. He struck with his blade even if another than him
Was the day after discord, greater and more steadfast.

29. So you became their master among the people after him
And the Quraish rightly feared and praised him.

30. In every horizon you have cast a star
From war, feared when ignited.

31. The mountains of Al-Awair shine with a doer
Who lights fires when night falls.

32. An avenger whom the people do not feel safe from his wrath,
Nor the condition of an enemy if he has promised it.

33. Muzzabid does not rise above the islands of Hameez,
Cleaving towards them a hollow ship that drowned.

34. The people of Aanah took precautions against him after
He covered their highest wall with piled rubbish.

35. He torments with salt until fear makes him
Desist, though the accustomed is daring.

36. With the continuous pain of injury, as if
He brought ostriches driven wildly to An-Na'm.

37. It is as if the daughters of water in his encampments
Are jugs gifted by Diyaf to Sarakhad.

38. With the finest horses from Yazeed, if fate
Carries him on them bearing a kingdom and gifts.

39. He shortens with the long sword his garment
A shirt if the robe on him is ripped.

40. I swore to never forget the hand of fate or his sword
The morning of torrents however much it provisioned and prepared.