1. Is the living one present today, or have they promised tomorrow?
The guide to separation has certainly promised separation.

2. The guide set out early, O mother of a barrier,
So they rode away from your love and went far.

3. When they tied the knot of kissing due to need
With a gloomy, dusty love and dug it.

4. By my life, if the short robe holds me
With the rope of loyalty between two palms propped.

5. The pruning shears have cut him off in his death
From crying that no longer hoards tears and became accustomed.

6. So when I saw the living, their ostriches became light
With a band from the family of Qais and Aswad.

7. The elegy was recited when they missed the pursuit with a call
And how can my call avail when Aamir took off.

8. About his matter, and wisdom between me and him
Sees other than what I desire of the matter as more rightly guided.

9. But with the slander of two hastening lips
On the back of a bald eagle made bald.

10. They slandered, and the bidding had been equal between them,
Upon the back of a breast that had scattered.

11. And I was like the owner of thousands, Surbin before him
So he betrayed when the tied camel was tried.

12. You have pained a land of daughters and women
Who quench sikhaq al-sawiq, the strained.

13. Good for you! Was the city of Fars
A protector for your family or a birthplace for your mother?

14. As for us and you, our promised meeting
Is like Labid, the day he bid farewell to Arbad.

15. And he told him the path is winding,
Ascending, calling every old and decrepit one.

16. Ascending whom it takes in the day comes to it
And whoever the dawn does not inspire rushes.

17. So I have become an old man, no longer all my youth
Nor competing against all that troubled me, defended me.

18. Umm Sahm’s she-mount took provision,
Branches of nisar so the desert, so it became desolate.

19. It appeared to us on the day of Nisar with streaming dust
And the tradition of fleeing Rim, fearing to listen, so it hastened.

20. Steps whose walking does not reach a span
Nor what is beyond the span except slowly.

21. It went slowly with the wronged companion, its forelock was disheveled by it.
Hilal on a rainy day so it was covered in clouds.

22. So the rain wet it and its softness relaxed it
Like the relaxation of Ra'uf’s sheep before it became firm.

23. So a rider informed about them, whom an Egyptian mare threw off
Whose flesh had become emaciated.

24. Smooth-stepping, spoilt, having imagination,
When the leather strap of Al-Mujarrat pulled her along.

25. Sliding, her walking folds the skirts,
As the scabbard slides off the polished sword.

26. It travelled from a forehead whose musk the birds tear
Like the tearing of the Yamanite wrapper, the embroidered.

27. You have not seen anyone alive who had more power
Or more piercing in the religion of kings and more corrupting.

28. We were erected as spears above which the ancestry of ‘Amir
Like the shade of the sky over every land he supported.

29. Sitting around it the brave bats as if they
Were lions in Taraj or lions in ‘itwad.

30. And we made the cure for every boast
In the time of ‘Ad to be killed and made humble.

31. And pure white camels as if their bodies
Were a young hyena turning over out of hunger.

32. And it is more fitting for their women to spend the night
Sleeping when the caller to fear yells.

33. And more of us who owns the one giving birth he drives
So some people can take her and we are praised.

34. And most snarling when war makes the horses unkempt,
He runs with the weapon of an old man, and the old man is red.

35. And greatest in numbers of horses behind him
Crowds carrying wisuj, the intended.

36. It probed two sandals and the night was pitch black
And rags and belongings struggling to help each other.