1. Are you distracted or has Zainab appeared to your reason?
And love that would go has now remained

2. Your love for Zainab in the morning was painful
I endured until the sun was about to set

3. Then when she went away I said a date palm of Ibn Yamina
Are they more bent over or those who were brought up bending over?

4. A massive, mighty, green road, birds of every kind alight upon it
With howdahs, litters, and green striped side panels

5. They rode the valley until I feared they would disperse
Into two groups, one ascending and one descending

6. I sought them though fatigue makes me stumble
A she-camel, snub nosed, large eyed, bleating

7. Brandished, as if its leather saddlebags
Contained some of the red dye of Bahrain, the most bent over

8. When I reached the tribe, a loved one shone
As bright as a pleiades underneath the brooms

9. Among the tribe are those who love Qana and those full of enmity and hatred
I forgot nothing, though I forgot to mention it

10. Perhaps after parting, wishes come true
Cheeks upon which tears flow, slender as the branches

11. Of the nibq tree dripping with dew
A goblet shaped like a rooster's eye whose sharp edge

12. I tested with honest youths as bells were being rung
An old salaf flask as if saffron and musk

13. Were being pounded in its mortar then sealed
It has a man who smells strongly of tar in the exalted house

14. As if he was afflicted with a skin disease from Darin the most humped over
Deliver a message from me to Hurayth

15. For you have deviated from your original intent, you who slander
Do you wonder that I was once faithful to my neighbor?

16. By my life today we are amazed by that
Unlike you, the cisterns were once faithful to their neighbors

17. Saving them from what they feared and dreaded
Giving them a continuous, unfailing inheritance

18. Being faithful though they were about to crumble
Helping them in dire need after

19. Things had gone without mending, and were about to break
While we are people whose habit is the custom of Naba'a

20. Whenever the tribe had an outstanding, prominent one
We have bounty no shame touches its people

21. Who look after the stranger guest and milk livestock
And if a great misfortune befalls them

22. There are spacious, generous people who disappear
And on the day of battle they are protected by

23. A mare quick to the summons, who turns and gallops
Young camels from noble breed, some tall and some short

24. Warriors on them ready for the wily foe
And smooth swords that glitter like the wolf's fang

25. Preserved for the day of peril among us and dried out
And every seasoned warrior like an impregnable fortress

26. You can see its superiority over its lord wavering