1. Do not leave me, oh Sharīḥ, after your ropes
Have clung today to my mature nails

2. I roamed between Banīqiyā and Aden
My wandering and traveling was long among foreigners

3. The most faithful of them in keeping a covenant and
The most impregnable neighbor was your father through customary accord without refusal

4. Like rain whose downpour they begged for, he was generous and pouring
And with his guaranty, the fierce attacking lion

5. Be like the high clouds when the courageous souls set out for it
In a group dark like the blackness of flowing night

6. Ibn Ḥayyān's neighbor, for one whom his guaranty reached
Is more faithful and impregnable than the neighbor of Ibn 'Ammār

7. His abode at Abalaq al-Fard in Taima’ is a fortress, a stronghold
And a neighbor without betrayal

8. When Khussat directed me to him, he said to him
Whatever you say, I am a listening protector

9. So he said, "unfaithfulness and betrayal, between them you are
So choose, and there is no share for the chooser between them"

10. He doubted for a while, then said to him
"Slaughter your sacrifice, I am the protector of my neighbor"

11. "He has relatives if you kill him
And if you kill a generous man not given to shame

12. With much wealth, and honor without blemish
And brothers like him who are no evildoers

13. They flowed with good manners from me without misery
Or when war stirred with overflowing

14. And if you gain victory over him, a Lord, Generous,
And chaste women will inherit me

15. Their secrets are not lost with us, tasted,
And secret keepers when entrusted with secrets"

16. So when he stood to kill him, he said as an offering
"Noble Samaw’al, look at the flowing blood of the neighbor"

17. "Shall I kill your son with patience, or will you bring her
Willingly?" He refused this with refusal

18. His intestines were wrenched and his chest was in pain
Folded over him like branding with fire

19. He chose his arms that he not be insulted by them
And he had no skill in them as a chooser

20. And he said, "I will not buy shame with an honor"
So he chose the honor of the world over shame

21. And patience from him was an old trait, a nature
And his heroism in unwavering loyalty was piercing and protective