1. I was told that Abu Al-Huwayrith had
Written the document, O dreams!

2. You thought me in religion a follower,
As though I made lawful the sons of arrowpoints.

3. A people who are the sons of my father, and theirs
Is most of Hejaz, a people of resolution.

4. They refused the Khazraj from their houses
With blades and burnished arrows white-hot.

5. Their majesty, as you knew, when
You attacked with obtuse spearheads.

6. And I certainly rode against the coat of mail with a swimmer
Like the train of a startled ostrich.

7. Fetters of the devotee, nothing makes it disappear
Like the master, no udder and no brisket.

8. Clattering like the lower part of the water-wheel
Of smooth wood, driving away the horses with blindness.