1. How wretched the son I raised,
I had hoped for victory through him.

2. But an evil fate made him weak,
And he was sated with dishonor and evil counsel.

3. May God make hideous the builder of his lineage,
He is like the mongrels of a bastard she-camel.

4. O people, wake up and look,
For he has come with a notorious affair.

5. Killing his uncles and uncle's son,
Ignorant in life, violating sanctities.

6. A group of them - Sisara, his son,
Yazid, Nufay', and Umar.

7. May God not water their lands while alive,
And my son Walid - misfortune befell him.

8. And my hopes in him are cut off, without
Him living in prosperity or fulfilling desire.

9. And Shihab who poured in those who poured,
My life in him - neither hearing nor sight.

10. He was a spy, and was guided to
Kulayb, his uncle, the moonlight.

11. So Banu Shayban were loyal to him,
People of sincerity and renowned purity.

12. May God curse him from me, a man
Who cast my son with a bowstring's arrow.