1. The sender of revelation to His prophet
I will send down poetry from his love

2. In praise of the Khuza'i and Khatabi
You will see wisdom in his youth

3. And Jonah of the markets in his Arabness
In my poetry the nomad and the urbanite

4. Not extending shade or dwelling
Meccan, house of glory, stony

5. Emigrant of victory, Yathribi
Branch of glory after office

6. Wolf lair, wilderness, flea-ridden
Full moon beautiful face, starry

7. Gathering of nobility, processional
Farazdaq, embroidery predominant

8. Whatever you wish of passionate soft
Did not fall short of Musayyab

9. Nor Az-Zuhri nor Ka'bi
Rather Al-Kulaybi and Taghlibi

10. Frosty praise, cloaked
Sword of piercing satire, venomous

11. Both have yielded from his captivity
Judicious, boulevardier

12. Torrential, Maribi
Peaceful better than warlike

13. Sound mind, twisted
Superior in knowledge, hilltop

14. Foremost in grammar, redolent
Raising, lowering, placing

15. Witty, not disciplined
Above the station of scribes

16. Prose, reproving, chiding
Neither familiar nor cordial

17. For his Master and foreign
Whatever you wish of love and affection

18. Dragging, and fate in its absence
Flowing from baseness over his dog

19. And from his transgression over his wolf
To reap for me the elite from his harvest

20. Plentiful from the rain at Scorpio