1. And a downpour whose procession I took shelter in
When the rain exposed it from its cover

2. With it standing under its shadows
Like the sitting of the old and decrepit

3. As if its rising columns in the early morning
Were the neighing of the steed

4. With the swaying of the howdahs of honor
Driving away the stumbling of meaning

5. A short-reined, short-tied camel
And a long-reined, long-tied mare

6. With it I startled the caravan boastfully
While its bold horsemen hid

7. It raced confusedly, not knowing
The impact of the encounter nor feeling safe

8. It flows from the hill of Al ‘Udhras
Drenched by the rain until it filled

9. As if the small pools of Al-Khatimmah
Were carved into its rocky cliff, if it were chiselled

10. It shook off the dew from its back in the morning
Its dangling tassels dripping like cotton

11. And a friend I forgot
I disliked until I was allowed to forget

12. It wards off the sparrows from a shelter
Of a thick garment, empty and barren

13. And I creaked with the saddlebags in desolation
Inclining with the twittering of the sad pigeon

14. And they are wings near the shore
Its plumed chicks crying with sorrow

15. With two saddlebags it steers its boys
In a swamp like the pools of mud

16. We were its shady pole-bearers
Fanning their heads with the robe

17. So we were happy their hands waved
Tranquilly, after hardship comes ease

18. And I hunted its illness for its master
When its belly rumbled, I diagnosed

19. I cured it then presented it
Between the two friends until it was paired

20. So treat your brother up to his day
And if he lives well without wrongdoing, then good

21. Some of his sorrows will crush the youth
And some of what he feels safe from will make him despair

22. With something stolen from the thickets of diminution
Men are cast by it from glory

23. So if I die, do not grieve
And sleep despite your settled sorrow

24. By your father’s life, a place pained me
Whether it grieved or saddened

25. The dwellings of Layla and her neighbors
Its promise between us failed after living there

26. Its promise failed after its dwellers
Due to the defects and sins that befell it

27. The nights of Layla upon ruggedness
And Layla is the passion of the soul before explanation

28. She quenched me with the morning drink of her leather bottle
Whenever it softens my bones they bend

29. A drawn skin bottle from Tayma
Returning from fresh ‘ud and flexible branch

30. And she clove the night from its folds for me
With her pleasure and my lover and toothstick

31. Had she spent the beauty she possesses last night
On a meadow, she would have watered a sharp toothstick

32. Encircling goblets with its rims
Carpets outspread with a relaxed pillar

33. A nail whose back seems
To be oiled after oiling

34. Its square pillows, the wine of broad bowls
And its preferred nook is in mournful seclusion

35. The intensity of its warp will continue to compete with it
Like the struggle of the bracelet, the necklace's pledge

36. I will leave what comes after to speculation
And who can have insight to perceive?

37. So do not follow speculation, speculations
Show you from the matter what did not exist

38. And I heed the trust in those who heeded
And whoever you do not find trustworthy will betray

39. I left rancour, I am not one of its people
And I fattened myself with praise until I fattened

40. Honoring my family by guarding its honor
And taking off the camel-like slanderer’s bridle

41. And a spacious enclosure where the ostrich enters
During winter, the sheltering of the hen

42. I filled it, and then I fed it generously
As is the habit of a generous, wise man

43. When the local rooster crowded its horizons
A predator cries with the roar of the cock

44. And well-mannered, true to its word, I drove it
To the heart's guardian, keeper of the ear

45. At the gate of the livestock pen of donkeys
Its limbs fastened with rope

46. So what chastity hides is not revealed
And what is apparent is not displayed when manifest