1. O my home in Salma in Harouriyyah become safe
Next to the rugged cliffs, cleft by ravines

2. It remained chaste after the life of Sulaym and 'Amir
They perished and mingled, diffusing their sweet scent

3. Its dwellings amid the setting suns to the twisting valleys
To ravines where sheep graze bleating

4. It stayed there through two winters, then remembered
Its dwellings amid the freezing winds and Jerthum

5. Nights that hunt men in intense darkness
And whiteness like a polished sword, flawless

6. Look, my friend, can you see from among the maidens
Who departed at midnight from the tribe of Mun'im

7. And in the morning were like gentle, tender gazelles
Heading toward a lover, hoping and watching wistfully

8. And convey to 'Iqal that the plot of Dahis
Thwart it with your hands or confront it and go forth

9. It will protect Wael against us with our blood
As if you were unaware of what befell our tribe, blind man

10. Kulaib, by my life, was more of a helper
And lighter of guilt than you, stained with blood

11. He pierced the udder of Nab with a lasting stab
Like the ornamented edge of a Yemeni embossed sword

12. And the deaf spear shaft does not sense its hardness
From the wealth of the loud-wailing, wronged family

13. So he said to Jassas, "Quench my thirst with a drink
With which you oblige me and from which I will benefit."

14. But he replied, "You went beyond the numbered wells
And the belly of Shubayth, which holds abundant water."

15. When the she-camels strode on through the journey, they finished their course
Flowing down the valley, riding the darkness

16. You see the grim-faced company - when they set forth
They have mounts like the sea that never stumbles

17. And you made miserable the days of Harour with worry
About water until the spittle dried up in the mouth

18. Convey to Qushayr and al-Harrish, what
Has parrying my insult returned in your hands?

19. They fell upon a lion at the instance of an eye's blink
With the slashing of sinewy arms, resolute, unflinching

20. Were it not for Ibn Harithah, the prince
You would have shrunk from my insult despite yourself

21. Except like one averse, frowning, who deliberately
Provokes me unjustly with blame

22. You unleashed your passion after an impoverished woman
Whose ribs show through her skin

23. What you did was a duty just as
Adultery is the duty of being stoned

24. We are horsemen on the day of Daysaqah
No coward's reaching for the shield's handle

25. Our swords in your environs are, for you
A sincere, knowing affliction and trial

26. It is He who repelled the tribes with the
Two campaigns with a planet, bright and brilliant

27. They walk while the Great Bear rises above them
Glowing with the glow of a star

28. Ask about them a lion, if the war of an enemy is set
Inciting and enraging without purpose

29. Scenting with long noses, the necks of tall, proud
Stallions, no short and stumpy steeds

30. Chewing in affliction what was inflicted
Like the chewing of a mangy camel