1. O rider, if you meet the people of Nashib,
Then convey my regards to those who yearn for me,

2. Each of you chooses the abode he settles,
And leaves a ruin with no one to blame,

3. And convey to the clan of Awd ibn Zayd a message,
With the sign that if they try to harm me they lie,

4. If you wish, you forbade your fool about me,
And your wise one said to him "Where are you going?",

5. And if you wish, you fought me to the utmost,
Then the misery of war in the dusk confuses you,

6. So good deeds reach those who deserve them,
And gloom learns whose head wished but missed them.