1. O the ruins of Suhaiban! Lead on to the fresh sweet water,
To Bur` and then the wells, wells of my father Zughb.

2. The gazelles pass by them as though they are
Women slaves from Rome divided up as plunder.

3. Upon it is the shade of the acacias like
The black night whose darkness creeps slowly across the ground.

4. They flirt with the virgins of the clouds and frolic
To every mound and elevated ground that was hard to climb.

5. The abodes belonged to Judham while Faratna abandoned me,
As did their soil, for Hind, so I departed from their soil.

6. If a Tamimite comes to you boasting,
Then say, “Go back, how the hyenas tore you apart!”

7. To boast foolishly by the sons of kings -
Your urine runs down your leg to your heel.

8. When people take the initiative, take a stick
And with a young goat bleat in Ma’azah, O son of Talikah the flea-bitten!

9. For we ruled the land, East and West,
While your Shaykh is water in the leather buckets and in the hides.

10. But when he persisted in boasting about Hajib
I split his ribs with the knife of the cliff.

11. Boasting foolishly about the udder of our prophet’s she-camel -
Indeed, the face of the Tamimite is from ugly skulls!

12. As for the clans of Dodan and the Kahil alive,
They are from a skin between the two sandal straps and the strange marvels!

13. So you fell foolishly when you betrayed your Lord -
Wait, O sons of weakness in times of war!

14. You are the scabbed mules of (the day of) Thursday when invading -
Your food is those swellings in the soil!

15. You were, for ages of time, accepting it -
Slaves of worthless and ignored sons of Wahb!

16. And the day of As-Safa you submitted to the group of Hajib -
So you are, from the two hemorrhoids, the lowest in leaping!

17. Your father, his tongue is bound, death rattles
Gurgling in his throat like the thickened milk in the water-skin.

18. You wasted regarding the `Amiris your revenge
For `Amr ibn Dabba’ who was killed though innocent.

19. Thus the lampoon poetry of Al-Ja’fari was your shame
When they scraped the fats from it off the hides!

20. You were hurt by As-Samahri so you tasted
Its bitterness like aloes wood in the wine!

21. So the head of Al-Faqr`asi became as though
Snatched away by a hyena - Abu Afakh, the flea-bitten!

22. While you gloated over Ibn Darah Salim
So days passed you over blow after blow!

23. You prevented your brother `Uqbah while he set forth earnestly
And quenched his thirst lest he taste anything fresh!

24. So you died by your own hands - none dies but you -
And the sons of Darah sang joyously with the drinking!

25. If there remains among you the hair of Mu’akkid’s daughter,
Then a hair from the forelock of a donkey or from lion fur!

26. It would drape over the pomegranate tree and its spinning angers it
And tangles it while the spinning is no cause for blame!

27. I will exact against you, O sons of Wadhah, examples
Inferior to them - the brother of a dog!