1. How I love the gentle breeze of your blessed arrival
And your pack-trains, at the most wonderful times.

2. For I have found the way to those making the pilgrimage
To the slopes of Mecca, from the pastures of Arafat.

3. You remind me of our life in Damascus
Among the black goat-hair tents and the hillsides,

4. When you were the image of harmony and dissent
And time was both an opponent and a friend.

5. If it were not for difficulties pressing in
And shaping themselves against me on both sides,

6. I would come to you, for my family has betrayed me
Due to time’s injustice and the pressure of misfortunes.

7. Those dwellings give no joy to one who pauses
At the empty hills and silence of the voices.

8. O sons of Ubayd who were tested until
My heart was seared for you and my tears overflowed for you.

9. I find your virtues cause me anguish after you
And I see the precedents of your glory as regrets.

10. It is an honor whose inheritors have been separated
And have become echoes of poverty on the bare plains.

11. After they were established on Jabal Al-Ola
Their reputations perished and they flowed to the far distances.

12. They were the refuge of all the scattered
Tribes, in their affairs and wanderings.

13. The days will not provide me with any substitute for them -
Alas for any substitute for them! Alas!

14. The flames that pierced through their gray hair
Ascending in the air, spreading like the Euphrates.

15. And the one who reproaches me for time will know tomorrow
That the harvest comes after every planting.

16. My sons! I have awakened from my heedlessness
And was perplexed, then came to my senses from intoxication.

17. I looked to my forties and they cried out
At my white hair and shook my bent reed cane.

18. And I see the many descendants of my father
Who passed away while time rolls toward my descendants.

19. And of my relatives are those who rejoice at my death -
Foolishly, their life’s honor depending on mine.

20. Whether He keeps me alive or takes me, I have attained what
Filled the breasts of my loyal friends and promises.

21. And I have sung, making the successors regretful,
A memory and pleasure to them in my compositions.

22. And I have interceded, in the Majestic matter, with them
After the Majestic One, and so they granted my requests.

23. And I did good deeds for the Arabs through
Supporting students and freeing prisoners.

24. So now, when I have pulled on the reins of ascendance
And climbed its highest steps,

25. One will compete to enter into the dust of my hastiness
Who cannot keep pace with me in the race.

26. And one who, if I subjugated his tribe
On the day of pride, would have flown in my fantasies, will blame me.

27. My grandfather who called the prayer in Manbij
And established its direction of prayers there,

28. And my father Abu Hayyan, leader of Tai
Against the Romans, under his banners of protection,

29. And the conqueror of the Bridge, when Umar tempted him with it,
And the doer of those deeds.

30. And my uncles - the Hufazan, and Hatim,
And the two Khalids, my paternal uncles.

31. And of my peers, some old and some recent,
The refined in wisdom, gentle in behavior,

32. When the honor of marriage was not bought
With money, in shamelessness and indecency.