1. A forgetful brown beauty, after
I left memories of her in every place

2. Alas, may Allah curse the slanderers and their words
"So-and-so has become the lover of so-and-so"

3. Woe to you two, O slanderers, mother of lies
Why then did you come to slander me?

4. O slanderer of the brown beauty, know that
I have denied you as a slanderer, do you not see me?

5. Do you not see how the pangs of love have pierced
My body, and how love has overwhelmed me?

6. If the doctor of mankind and jinn were to cure me
Of love for the brown beauty, he could not heal me

7. Whenever we sit happily together
The slanderers whisper about us until they spoil the occasion

8. The slanderers surround me from every side
Even one slanderer would have sufficed against me

9. Even if the slanderer's home was in Yamama
And mine was in Hazramawt, he would still reach me

10. So may you treat me with justice, unlike him
Whom my eyes and tongue delight in

11. The one I would visit if I saw him among foes
And the one who would visit me if he saw me among foes

12. The one I would water if I saw him thirsty
And the one who would water me if he saw me thirsty

13. The one I would aid if I saw him suffering
And the one who would aid me if he saw me suffering

14. The one I obeyed in everything, and who obeyed me
Even if I walked faster than a lively colt

15. My uncle demands eighty she-camels from me
When all I have, O brown beauty, is eight

16. Eight that can cross the valley in the meadows
And cross the expanse of the desert in pairs