1. For the songstresses with rhetorical eloquence
Their customs in the valley of Mecca are ancient

2. With the sacrificed camels garlanded at Mina
Their trilling is renewed as if they are tattooed

3. He wept for my companions so I restrained him
While tears soaked his cloak silently

4. He said: "Wait, we will beg some food from Dimnah
Where will sustenance come for the beseechers?"

5. I said: "Turn back, begging is stubbornness
And people vary between ignorant and forbearing"

6. But he insisted on pursuing desire
For the success of a matter destined

7. Love before its path is paved
Is a disease lodged in the ribs to stay

8. Convey to Rumaym in separation that I
Am a stitcher of the garment of pure fraternity

9. I keep a trust safe for the trustee in truth
So he sees graciousness while his secret is hidden

10. I support my patron lord though bankrupt
With tenderness against total loss and he is clement

11. I refrain involving him if he has no need
While upon me my fierce opponent is tyrannical

12. Verily the humiliated and base are a people
Whose patron is the oppressed and downtrodden

13. If you disgrace or isolate your brother
Intentionally, then you are the disgraced and condemned

14. Do not follow the ways of vileness and treachery
Truly the fool is culpable and defamed

15. Be upright with those whose demeanor is singular
Nobility, the generous ones are resolute

16. Do not prohibit a trait then do the same
Disgrace upon you if you commit it, it is momentous

17. When you see a man restraining his soul
From inviolable women, he has no sanctuary

18. Those ridiculing me for poverty, I told him: Be moderate
For I am ahead of you in time since old

19. Loss may increase for one with little ambition
While wealth decreases for a man who is noble

20. You see me in places, if not to my liking
Carrying burdens, with them I am preoccupied

21. Rather, I repelled many a dissenter
Knocking him on the head, so he conceded though vile

22. I turned away feigning deafness to his nonsense
My cheeks unaffected by what I say are tattooed

23. I ripened his disgrace so he remained bowed
Among the carpet sellers as if hired for prayer

24. Muffling his voice, loud before arguing
Now faint after clamoring vociferously

25. I said: make it brief, I do not intend backing
A son of obstinacy, signed and sealed

26. When drinking wine, find another excuse
Rather than have a boon companion blame you

27. How do you fight me while your promise is submission?
Barren while devoid of chastity

28. Never did my back expect the whip
For long, as if I am liable for punishment

29. I had said, while you lacked success
What does the misguided striver intend?

30. You are a man who wasted your honor, ignorant
Satisfied in ignorance to be called sinful

31. I refuse that a valiant father should neglect
Resolute in strong command and determined

32. My poems are pride and my glory dominant
Loftily rising over mountains, massive

33. I am a man whose friend is the sincere and below him
The pillar of progeny, my clan of Khazima a foundation

34. I do not render advice to one who deceives me
Until I die without saying intimate

35. For one exiled from me who dies without it
A man deprived of guidance is deprived

36. He meets vileness blaming one who intends nobility
Ignorantly, while the warp of his reed-pipe is knotted

37. The hypocrite's deed remained, causing perdition
In his religion, while his hypocrisy is known

38. Just yesterday it was hostage to mortality
If only that state lasted and remained

39. With girls like pearls, purest complexion
Chastely nourished, together in bliss

40. Without unconscious sin or forbidden matter
And a brother to me, protective of the friend

41. Verily I crossed the valley, below me a bridge
Daring, furthest end of the path convoluted

42. Bearing two crosses, raising its gear
A firm pole, utterly redolent and smeared

43. It lessens modesty when it returns with smooth stones
Darkening their gums, all of them coarse

44. Kicked forward, following in the path
Barren, entering knee joints fruitless

45. Slender with its bobbing and swinging
From the dripping of its dangling rear, thickened gum

46. A doe, as if its wraps are cotton
Tied atop its snout, wrinkled

47. I mount it when dusk falls on the desert
A night like the color of a fox, hazy

48. It brings down the stars, as if
It encompassed governance and the excellent dark

49. Rushing, it seems as if they
Are drunk from weariness, confused

50. When it neighs, it is as if
Its bones are connected to others' bones in the bridle, rugged

51. I have witnessed horses carrying my love
A gaze I incline to when it neighs, defeated

52. It pounds the ground when its flank trembles
And it revolves after fervor, fervent

53. It ostricizes the stallions when they clash at its bridle
Restless traveller, and girth rubbed raw

54. When after calm it rises on the lookout
I show it permanence and composure

55. Its forerunners it guides halting in the morning
And the mark shows atop its forehead

56. Its legs lengthened and its muscling perfected
And the rest of its build sturdy

57. Snorting, its nostrils spray pebbles
As if its scattering were knots, congealed

58. Of pleasant grace, its fall scatters rocks
And with them the branded are stigmatized

59. It is as if emerging from the back of absence when it appears
A mirage floating in a vision swims

60. Firm of rein, it commands lightly, a frame
Clinging to the axe of the bit, knotted

61. It plunges like a bucket surrendered by the well rope
So it bolted and its tether is severed

62. Consecutive, sturdy, as if its neigh
Is a bell containing its voice in the gullet

63. Its constitution like an eagle's, its chest prominent
Broad of ribs and sturdy of shoulder

64. Tossing in zeal when roused
Like the hacking of dry wood, foul

65. Not one of the family of crookedness, weak and thin
Withered nor growth of vegetation odious

66. Lashing its tail, it does not restrain its intensity
An axe prepared for it together and muscular

67. The females' coyness, rubbing the ground, contracting
With the scowl of the fearful lip, tattooed

68. It casts its eyes about in panic and its Lord
Sits in fear at times and stands at others

69. It came in the morning neighing and rotating
A day producing heavy clouds from spring, clouded