1. My virtue endured after me against Sulaima, so its obstacles
The belly of the she-camel doubted it, so he who rides behind overtook it

2. The running of the wild cats after tranquility for a period
So an affliction which made its ponds overflow and its streams flow

3. The stay of pregnant she-camels in it, at every stop
Like the tattoo of virgins, its questioner is not spoken to

4. The stray sheep walked in it as though they
Were a group heading for Hajj when their stops approached

5. I remembered Sulaima in it and the concealment of a need
To myself, and what people do not know its insider

6. My companions continue to come to me as though I
Were drunk on new wine while its vessels were being emptied

7. Your heart was not wronged by desire
Nor confusion in the aftermath of one you befriend

8. The mention of Sulaima while stone buildings
Whose around it and its trenches hindered access to it

9. Even if youth did not restrain me and grey hair not
Invade my head which its rinsers rejected

10. I missed, but did not excuse, and misfortune did not meet
With any joy, I rose one day to dispute with it

11. And speech reached me from some of my people
Having much falsehood its empty talk brought to me

12. Whoever sees honour in a skull, he surely
Inherits his fathers glory and superiority

13. We moved its prices to him from our homes
And they came to us the day their departures came

14. We have inherited glory and pillars
With known sources and springs

15. And from us is he who repelled Mughira after
He donned his armour like a lion baring its claws

16. He opened for it what was between the lower part of Hisa
To the valley of Rasis so he closed its opening, its protector

17. It is a doe I desired, the fattened she-camels of the forest
When his glory walked, his hands and shoulders

18. The abuse of Muhayya does not leave its horn
But it is by the Sahsah he competes with it

19. And we were given the pure collared white Majid
A prince's drinking companion, his merits do not disappear

20. And making the coolness of the headband above his forehead
Protecting his eyebrows from what its spears stir up

21. And the night of confiding, fear afflicts its people
We sufficed, and the judge of the matter is from us, its separator

22. And the day of clanging, we plugged a broken army
We struck it until its shoulders leaned

23. And the day of Abi Yaksom while people were present
At Jalan when its fruits had finished ripening

24. We opened the door of Hasir for it while its lord
Was small, its feet walking with swords

25. Upon it was Mu'add planning around us between enviers
And those of rancour whose cooking pots boil against us

26. When Nu'man was brutal with the people in sanctity
We filled his chains with Awf ibn Ka'b

27. We removed the shackles of captivity from them so they walked freely
And the people were blessed by the good his doer did

28. And we said to him ‘Do not forget your in-law with us’
‘Nor forget the morals with which we indulge him’

29. Afterwards, no bitter sip or trait
Has the Creator sited to dispense to its containers

30. Those were our pursuits, and inherited Badr
With bells on its shoulders and ropes

31. By your life, the Zubraqan are lasting
With the people, its plantation and ignorances rise each morning

32. It bought a red cow one day with payments so it pastured
It to the highest of slopes, its beginnings

33. It saw the glory of a few people, Direct in their barnyards
And demolished the barnyard of Zubraqan, its destroyer

34. You have come to a man protective of his honor with people
You did not stop until you yourself were seated, disputing him

35. Then sit just as your father sat
He saw that Rima above him had no equal

36. Badr met you, he lived until I saw him
Slithering while his patron distracted him from glory

37. And panting from what my early forefathers bequeathed me
And desiring beyond what his earlier forefathers bequeathed him

38. If you have not become satisfied with your fortune in the morning
Then leave my fortune be, I for you am distracted

39. You married a scrawny woman, Khulayda, after
You claimed you would kill he who peeked at her

40. He toys with her under the canopy while your neighbor
In Dhi Shubraman did not pack his joints

41. And you married him Rahwa as though her camels’ howdahs
Were a red Hyena skin the tanner expanded his paring knife on

42. And when you saw honour in its people’s home
You wished after old age that you move it

43. When he saw the sandals walking on the pearls
When the highest of tree branches is not higher than its lowest

44. When he stops wandering from the head of its inviolable alliance
And stops frequenting the Iraq’s springs