1. The clan of Bakr acted unjustly,
Though a man may know the purpose of the path.

2. The feet of aggressors dismounted at Wā’il,
Among a band of spies with heavy burdens.

3. O you who aggressed against your people,
With what had not occurred being attributed.

4. An aggression which he knew not its essence,
An aggressor who did not sacrifice for it with effort.

5. Like one who hurls one day his crimes,
Into an abyss that has no way out.

6. Whoever desires to risk his soul in hardship,
Of distress, but who for him is the exit?

7. That to ride the sea if it had not been,
With a source of destruction for the drowning.

8. There is no escape for one whose aggression,
Tears apart the wind of the howling storm.

9. Unlike one whose aggression exceeded his people,
So he flew to the Lord of the fluttering banner.

10. To the Chief of mankind and the one hoped for,
For the knot of firmness and mending of severance.

11. One whom the day of Khazāz recognized for him,
Supporters at the pulling of firm pacts.

12. When the donkeys approach in their gathering,
And Mudhij like the lofty torrent.

13. And the gathering of Hamdān, for them loftiness,
And a banner hovering with the swaying of necks.

14. So the Hamdān appointed as their leader,
One from among them like an ancient sword.

15. Undertaking the command, elevated for him,
On a day when no throat risks a gulp.

16. That one when a lofty aid backed him,
Like the wings of night in a sky of lightning.

17. His banners gleam with the gleam of birds,
Over turbulent waves of a deep sea.

18. So their burdens were loaded by his burden,
With praiseworthy opinion gracious over them.

19. And a gust of wind had overcome them,
Of stirring like the blaze of destruction.

20. So from his face it uncovered blossoming,
Radiant like the blossoming of dawn.

21. Thus he cannot be matched by his like,
And you will not find his equal in a band.

22. Tell the clan of Dhūhl, they will return him,
Or be patient for the piercing of the squeaking file.

23. For you have been slow, and not tasted,
Its sharpness, so admit to the taste.

24. Inform the clan of Shaybān from us, for you have,
Kindled fires of defiant war.

25. It will not be cooled for eternity except,
By breaths of noble steeds that excel.

26. It will bear the rider over it,
On the withers of Hudbair made from palm wood.

27. O which man have you bloodied his garment,
With blood like tattooing?

28. Master of masters when they include him,
In a grave matter, on an evil day of distress.

29. He was not like the master among his people,
But a king whose rights were owed.

30. The darkness uncovered from his face,
Like the night that turned from a brilliant dawn.

31. If we do not take vengeance through him, then sharpen,
Your blades from us for the slitting of throats.

32. Slaughter without avoiding like slaughtering a sheep,
Its slaughterer does not avoid except the jugular veins.

33. What was between the clan of Wā’il,
Is severed rope, distant loved one.

34. Tomorrow we will let you taste, so know between us,
Our spears of destruction like deadly poison.

35. From every daring lion of the morning,
Shamardal atop from an ancient elevation.

36. My Saʿālī carries from Taghlib,
Likes of Jinn, like lions of the road.

37. Your brother does not neglect his duty,
Without fulfilling it with the awakening.