1. For Asma a drawing has become erased today,
And the meadows are emptied of flowers and herbs.

2. On the slopes of 'Asayb, I see nothing but desolation,
Empty of traces except some ruins.

3. The nights of Salma, I see nothing like their allure,
Alluring and intimate, bringing down modesty like a companion.

4. And the best lodging for the shelter seeker in her abode,
And no sitting place in it for whoever was sitting.

5. Musk was diffused from it until it was as if
Walking around with fresh and dry spices.

6. So leave it, but our meeting places have come to it
To bring down on our enemies the heavily loaded camels.

7. We risk our heads with the twisting of turbans
On skulls that we make rise above the summits.

8. With a group that wants to miss the two sons of Suhar, both of them
And the family of Rubayd, missing and touching.

9. On skulls that we make rise above every arrogance
That battles with it the potent warriors sitting.

10. We gave them twenty seven nights
In which we roam the arid deserts leaving no tracks.

11. So we spent the night clad in armor while they
Woke up on their knees, having lost everything.

12. And I have never seen live men more brave
Than us, when we met as horsemen.

13. More careful and protective of the truth than them,
And who surpassed us in striking with sharp swords.

14. And we are more fortified against them, they cannot reach us,
Our horsemen who imprison the imprisoned.

15. Whenever we show strength, they erect to face it
The chests of the glorious and the piercing lances.

16. When the horses recoil from a slain man we dislike,
We drive them back toward the slain, returning only reluctantly.

17. We stab around us with our lances
And strike them with the strikes of pressing assaults.

18. And I was at the front of the people, the first striker,
And I stabbed when stabbing was furtive.

19. My witnesses were Mu'abad, Mukhariq
And Bishr - and I was martyred only after the weak ones.

20. With me were the two sons of Suraym, both shield bearers,
And 'Urwa - had it not been for them, I would have met those who harvest lives.

21. And Zayd practiced then shortened his stay
He had the right with the likes of her to practice.

22. And Qurra protects them when they are scattered
And stabs them miserably - so you remained, O horseman.

23. Had those we wounded died, by morning
There would have been gazelles at the sides of the meadows as brides.

24. But being horsemen, they are only seen
Of the people in the double scale armor dressed.

25. If they kill one of us, a generous man, we
Take revenge on him with a killing that humiliates the proud.

26. With it, we killed five of them in the meeting place of horses
And his killer, we added a sixth to the night.

27. And we, when war flared up, we flare it up
And in it we strike the cowering and hesitating.

28. I gave life and made live through our lances
A relentless fate and red camels pressing.

29. And a coat of mail as if there were a lion above their backs
Of the people, with some obeying and others leading.