1. By my life! If he survives from the living tribe
He has certainly gained something special from a special woman

2. If she is stripped naked one day, you would think
Her chemise and cloak illuminate with shining stars

3. An old man enjoyed her intimately at night, so she became
A Kudha'i woman, coming to soothsayers as a sign

4. So I targeted her with my arrows, and before her
I used to target the likes of her among the women of the living tribe

5. The threat of Al-Huwais came to me from the family of Ja'far
So O slave of ‘Amr, if only you would forbid those who threaten harm

6. So I said, while I did not refrain from insulting Bakr ibn Wail:
When was I ever a sprouting weed among withered trees?

7. Bakr and those who sought her have filled her
With weeping, so the cisterns and courtyards overflow with tears

8. O ‘Alqamah, you have judged me so you found me
Knowledgeable regarding governance, though deficient

9. No, both your fathers were branches supporting a tree
But they increased while you became diminished

10. They are well-fed enemies while you
Eat crumbs of dried dates and leftovers

11. You sleep satiated while your neighbors
Go hungry, spending the night famished

12. Out of hunger's desperation, they observe
The dark, clustered stars of the gloomy sky

13. Do you threaten me that the sea of your cousin's son will surge
While your sea is calm, not stirring the pillars?

14. If you were date palms, you would be pollinated female trees
If you were arrows, you would be blunted

15. He discarded you among the lowest of them and
Preferred other tribes over you, though defective

16. So restrain your burning anger if you are discontent
And the rocks pelted by rabid dogs

17. If you threaten me, I will reciprocate alike
And I will increase the remaining severe rhymes

18. Rhymes into proverbs that will expand his skin
As you have expanded the width of your too-large shirt

19. Our two elders, when they met as enemies
Would pelt one another with virtuosic compositions

20. No affection remains between us
The camel litters of protracted hostilities are torn

21. Are you anything but slaves, though you are counted
Among the sincere friends, slyly wriggling away?

22. Your evasion from your rights is futile
I have not evaded at all for a moment

23. If my people meet your people, you will see
Fighting between them, broken spears and bloodshed

24. Do you not see that the pleased land
Has become palms and crops, sprouting and growing

25. With lofty stalks, beneath which birds cannot reach?
You see doves nestled among the leaves