1. The dwellings between the slopes and plains
Remain nothing but embers and firewood

2. And leafless, eternal bushes around their dome
And a dark Abyssinian with braided hair

3. And an old, dilapidated structure of gaps
And a helpless, bareheaded pauper

4. Every beautiful, crazy woman is used to it
They lost the knowledge of their highbred kinsfolk

5. And a darkening one whose burdens announce her complaint
Pouring the gaze of her eyes, crumpled

6. Submissive, made desolate by a Yemeni wind
Until it seemed to waver, leaning

7. The horses recoil from one flagging, exhausted
Baring the face and pulling the brows, frowning

8. Their insistence wears it out after its companion
And the passage of time full of epochs

9. So it is like the flash of Yemeni lightning after its ferocity
Or one who studies revelation among discarded books

10. I knew it was smoothly plastered
Not wearing any defects or moss

11. Walking the walk of docile, brown hyenas
On sand dunes, heaped with bumps

12. Of every white, apathetic, dull-witted
Her saddlebags adorned with pearls and gold

13. A helpless, frightened one not accused of indecency
Shy, bent-stemmed, slender

14. Who gives drink to one resting near her
A sip of pure, beloved wine

15. Protecting her honored gathering from enemies
Amr ibn Ghanam, with a host of glory and spears

16. She shoots the warriors of Furagh, targeting them
Though she misses while they shoot from every dune

17. My heart helps me though her biting reproaches capture me
A prisoner in their ropes, my side exposed

18. Can they distract you from what does not live up to
The suspicion about them in the intention of the doubter?

19. I swore a true oath
By God, Lord of the house’s screens

20. And all fulfilling a vow they carried
Blood-stained from stabbed bodies

21. Al-Walid, God's trustee, saved me
And was a fortress when I fled

22. I went to him, worries sleepless
Brother of caution, fugitive of killing and war

23. He secured the soul, fearing, and supported it
Throwing gifts from his desirable treasures

24. And affirmed my stance in the battle
Until I overcame it, my purpose relaxed

25. God’s Caliph, prayed for, for his way
Bringer of rain, selected by the Lord of Knowledge

26. My restless worries follow you closely
Until their fast pace was hobbled

27. Of every blond, hastening, roaring
Far from braiding, joined epochs

28. Spotted, wide-eyed, reddish
Like a phoenix, sharp-nosed, wide-nostrilled

29. As if a cat possesses her whenever she becomes aroused
A wild tom, touching her with its paw

30. And every barren hyena when aroused
Leaping to the top of the hill, usurping

31. As if it pulled him after conversing
On smooth pebbles, carefully chosen

32. Erection of the cheeks when they encountered an abandoned woman
Of a planet among the blazing stars

33. Protector of the creek, the wind subdues its fear
Almost kindling the sparks of fire in the firewood

34. So that one of them remains conscious
Practicing coquetry and clamor

35. When they undertake a difficult journey, dressed in robes
Of deceitful colored, troubled silk

36. They fear him whenever his desire stirs
Until he took on a loan, tired of fatigue

37. When they are confined for immersion hastily
In thick, dark mud, shedding drops

38. They rebuke him in his ragged cloak
Obviously destitute, meager

39. Bent, as if the smoke of coals mixed with him
Obviously poor, long-impoverished, depressed

40. They give him a glance of denial, knowingly
Eyes askance, circling like hearts

41. And when the people were deceived, their rage
Overwhelmed the group of gazelles with riders

42. Some of them slowly sway, the tossing of their legs
Graceful hands, whereby they gain, fresh and sweet

43. Like the flashing of iron hands, stripped
Mourning the youth of time’s bite and calamities

44. My journey to them left of its treasures
Only the core of the planks and joints

45. Until it reached the people who possess
The glory of kings and highest pedigree

46. Whites, whose assemblies none equaled
Among all the dignitaries of the Arabs

47. The most numerous in count, the purest in ancestry
The most praiseworthy in towns, during dire straits

48. Their dreams when they intend are not like others’ dreams
Nor their grip, when angry, like others’ grip

49. They are the core of the worshipers of a radiant sun in its brilliance
Their essence is not of outcasts

50. That was predestined for their first
An inheritance they inherited, father to father