1. Though the turns of fate are not asleep
We are forced to endure them without choice

2. Do you not see how it divides up the hours
And souls vie for the spoils of this life

3. When nights incline their eyes towards you
You see lessons in the eyes of the sleepless

4. Dawn with dispraise of fate, O my friend, for it
Does evil though not with evil intent

5. When the lost ones of Malik's clan are gone
My heart is rent with pity for the virtuous

6. My two friends, stop your tears now and your grief
Let not a flood of tears wash away restraint

7. Alas, here lies valour and awe laid low
And it suffices for tears if I say, Hashim's end

8. Do you not see how the days have left us aggrieved
By him, though we shared in his tragedy

9. Beings girded themselves against his might and valor
More resolute than the belts of amulets

10. Beings like a dense, heavy downpour
That the lances of warriors never penetrated

11. Had he lived after the deeds of his prime
He would have made the eagles' lives seem brief

12. Fate witnessed a stumble that did not make him fall
Does the steadfast stumble save the steadfast?

13. If the sword of death is a ruthless black blade
A most piercing white blade has surely failed against it

14. He was a man whose noble traits were his wealth
Not like one whose wealth is his only claim to nobility

15. Glory flowed from him in his sleep, and he was not
One to refuse generosity or pardon when wakeful

16. It shows in the light of his being, even as he sleeps
That awe is awake in his soul, and has not slept

17. If the pillars of his life crumble in this world
His munificence was no frail pillar in it

18. When a man's glory does not destroy him during life
Death has no power to destroy the sublime

19. O Hashim! Tears have become my constant scourge
And would not be, but for you as their constant cause

20. O protector of the living! In you are calamities
Whose measure in hearts is still being measured

21. Misfortunes that all the seasons, if combined
Would equal only some of the seasons

22. The day you visited your tomb, to Azd
Khuza'a in the bellies of the pregnant shuddered

23. The day you visited your tomb was not just ours
But the day of 'Amr and Hatim as well

24. So many debaters won on that day
And so many platforms lost on that day

25. Though the affliction was universal
It particularly pierced the edges of the keen swords

26. The world was stripped of its raiment and became
Like the scattered gobbets from a burst-open corpse

27. No catastrophe befell you but it was immense
Though it came from the greatest of catastrophes

28. O clan of Malik! Your graves have awakened
The dormant land, anticipating its waymarks

29. Encampments of Qays where palms defy climbing
And rising above them cannot be scaled by ladders

30. You fulfilled your duty to the land magnificently
As none in ages past fulfilled the duty of warriors

31. I would be deceived if I believed an absence
Could be lifted save to reveal grim faces

32. I saw them the feathers of wings when ruffled
Newcomers aided by more newcomers

33. When the battle for glory was joined, they made its attacker
And its obtainer around it like encircling fortresses

34. Do not seek their swords in their scabbards
For they have been lodged between enamel and skulls

35. When the lances of the tribe pierce in onslaught
Those who survive live honored as the honored guests