1. Your ill-omened catapults are set up
Against the family of Wahb, stirring up dust

2. You were their companion when they attained wealth
So you were their doom and their destruction

3. Whenever you come upon a blessing
It withers, its beauty destroyed

4. Your enemy sleeps reassured
While your friend refuses all but misfortune

5. You scattered sincere friends like stray camels
And finished them off when they owned a house

6. You took Ahmad to the depths of misery
So that his places of joy are now empty

7. Harthama died when he saw you
From fear, as the minaret was built over him

8. You were enough of a war for the Hilalis
So he became poor and hoped for no peace

9. We found you nobler than him as a corpse
Farther from us than him in a cave

10. My brother of the Bani Katan, he still roams
The graves and abandons the houses

11. When the people attained blessings
They avoided it, fleeing from it in haste