1. For whom are the drawings immortalized in Oman
Appearing like the lines of monks' scriptures

2. An abode for the elite and the standard of al-Khuriydah
And a guarantee before the tribulations of time

3. White, shapely belles like shining full moons
Twisting the myrtle on the sand dunes

4. Necks adorned, graced by the swaying gait
Under the banners - the rhythms of the amorous

5. Smiling brightly like well-watered anemones
Sated by the drizzle on the soft sands

6. The perfume rises every day, redolent
From them in plains and valleys

7. Of every graceful beauty al-Khuriydah has
Radiant foreheaded, vivacious gazelles

8. Sweet cool water, a blossoming smile and speech
The singing of supple wrist and tapering fingers

9. Ample loose trousers, pleated hems
Cloaks faded by withering horse-mounts

10. As though inclined on her sturdy neck
In her gait, the blonde daughter of Danan

11. Enveloped like sacrificial blood, sleek
Revealing the brilliance of astute minds

12. A meadow, when its flowers bloom and shine
The rain-drawers bow down before it on their cheeks

13. It has a murmur in the thickets as though
The psalmody facing the crucifixes

14. As if its bead strings resemble
Gold embossed above with gems

15. It rivals the meadows in the gardens
Woven by the hand of the distracted lover

16. As if its vitality and the flush of its boughs
Were the face of the beloved and the form of the tender sapling

17. The gushing water wrinkled by the morning breeze
As if flowing unbridled

18. Spacious like the sky is its extent
With the cultivated farms of al-Shadaniya

19. Escorted, she grazed tranquility and became
Like a towering palace of formidable pillars

20. A fortress whose neck twists in the darkness of night
Bending with the glimmer of the deep gloom

21. Tall, heavily necklaced, broad-chested
Ruddy, with glittering eyes that pierce the dark

22. Scar-tattooed by separation's affliction till she gleamed
With a shimmer that penetrates the breastbone's hollow

23. A battalion whose deadly glances she deflected
Through compulsion, alighting in humiliation and defeat

24. Blood-stained fighter who clove the valiant warriors
And ended the exploits of the brave heroes

25. He left her under the balcony crouched
Wrapped in the garb of the deeply-rooted palm

26. With a white straight sword of splendid sharpness
When swords are attributed to me, Yemeni

27. So he became food for vultures, for long
He guaranteed food for them and the kites

28. Generous, she filled the horizon, I gifted her
To Ma'ayyim, whom the misfortune of time made blind

29. Racehorses in the vastness I distributed
Under saddlecloths at the raids of Dawani

30. And how often I gifted an eloquent poet
A polished bay mare swift as an arrow

31. The might of Kikarib and awe of donkeys
Benevolence, gifts of An-Nu'man

32. I am the supreme lord without contention
And essence of the judgments from Qahtan

33. The King, Sultan son of the King
Sultan son of the Sultanic King

34. If the thickets bristle from my blade
With resolve I venture from the canines of Sinan

35. When you inform me of the blessings, not
Destruction, the food and weapons

36. For I was the peak of honor for scattered Arabs
And the wolf of realms from Ghussan

37. My threats may destroy the shining full moons
And surpass the clouds' thunder in loftiness

38. And if the unique enchantment of poetry falters
Its doors of glory shut on intellects

39. My call made the keys fall obedient
With the yielding of the meek to the grand elite

40. Ask those kings who paid me allegiance, and you will belittle
Whoever followed the clan of Dhubyan

41. And if sovereigns contend for my principles
The eagles fall short of my status

42. For my gifts are seen in every position
And my praises recited in every tongue