1. The daughter of Al-Awfi says: Do you not see
The son of Kurā' who is always alarmed

2. Fearing these two commanders has robbed
My sleep and clothed me in extensively branched whiteness

3. With no fault of mine, an unjust neighbor
Wronged me, so I composed the extensively branched ode

4. And the people fled from me when I shot them
With unfeathered arrows, if he dares be courageous

5. I refused the doors of metrics as if
I were confronting a flock of wild beasts provoked

6. I meet them until I can marry off after
He who woos is either insane or estranged so I disappoint

7. No rebels except I placed before them
A cane stick covering necks and arms

8. They roamed with the shame of maidens and returned
On a path the odes hoped would bellow

9. Far from glory, hardly approached
By a suitor until he weakens and withers

10. If I fear it may be recited about me I return it
Behind refinement, fearing it may be revealed

11. And fear of the son of Affan made me compose it
So I clothed it in burning, ashen heat

12. The son of Uthman the Imam prohibited me, and yet
The decrees had passed, if cliffs were to crack

13. Ships that would not leave a flesh on its bone
Or a bone on its flesh that they may be torn apart

14. Is it right that God guided you when an unjust neighbor
Wronged and a wronged one was forbidden to be taken together

15. While you are the son of rulers who established and corrected
Generations and gave to an obtainer without depriving

16. And I had an increase in myself against it
But I did not see except to obey and listen

17. So if you two judged against me, then deter
The riffraff who hurt me from the people as infants

18. So if you deter me O son of Affan, be deterred
And if you leave me, protect a forbidden honor