1. Do you know the twilights of Layla's clan,
With yearning women standing in line?

2. No, you think their gestures are verses
Weeping copiously out of passionate desire.

3. Your visage in the morning is one of departure,
Disobeying good counsel and hastening ahead recklessly.

4. So do not feel safe from an assault by his knights -
The clan of Wael and frighten them with vigor.

5.
How can one be wary of a man who does not relent

6. In attacking the tribe, until he takes his time?
With disheveled hair like a spinster's,

7. They raid violently and return laden.
Necks of their she-camels bobbing,

8. While their humps are caravans returning.
When they slip into the darkness of night,

9. You will not see in the tribe a trace left behind.
But they beat the summit all night long

10. With a downpour gushing violently.
When the clouds above him dispersed,

11. He descended and emptied on him a deluge.
And he multiplied above it a scattering

12. That drives away the rain clouds in droves.
Doubling it like the darkness of night

13. To cover his feet in abundance.
Then he restrained it for a while and said

14. To those who released it, "Clear the way!"
So he followed them like the trailing meteors

15. That a shrieking she-camel follows bleating.
He roars in every meadow you see

16. A stallion galloping, racing a mare.
Wild beasts writhing with the writhing of a hunted gazelle,

17. Galloping a mile and springing a mile.
So he remained briefly with his companions,