1. Are those the tents of the living, and the cries and moans?
Or has the morning adorned them with flowers and flags?

2. Embodying suns like suns with a halo of glory circling and flowing,
When gently touched in the early dawn swaying like the gaits of youth, crackling and murmuring.

3. O my storyteller, go over and repeat in your tale about the people of passions - what they were and what they are.
They were our neighbors, but now that they have departed, neither the living are alive, nor are the neighbors neighbors.

4. We bid them farewell on the day of departure, while for the journey of the one they loved, the camels were prepared.
What a journey it was, for which our hearts and bodies and eyes fell ill!

5. The day Hind glanced at me with yearning eyes while my heart was a racecourse for the horses of love.
I glanced at her, our gazes flashed, and our eyes rained tears.

6. A teardrop flowed over perfume for her, signs and clues of longing on cheeks.
She yearns for my farewell but fears the watchful eyes, like one thirsty prevented from reaching water.

7. The alleys of the neighborhood concealed her, while around her Arab and African maids gathered.
An order came for her, the tongues wagged, as the nobles of the neighborhood escorted her,

8. As if the highest glory made her a Bilqis or a Booran.
Ghayda captivates me whenever she travels, a personification of exquisite beauty.

9. Aisha is in a paradise of blissful garden, and in the darkness of passions, fires.
Tumays poses in the garb of youth, swaying like a tender branch.

10. Whenever she moans, she captivates minds, hearts, gazes and thoughts,
As if the magic of Harut was embodied in her languid, sleepy eyes and teeth.

11. Dissatisfaction mixes with satisfaction if she arrives; neither is the union a union, nor is the separation a separation.
I have devoted myself truly to the religion of love for her, in youth as if religions.

12. I do not conceal love, for love's way is openly declared, not overwhelmed by secrecy.
Hypocrisy is a garment that may cover what makes its wearer naked among the people.

13. Why do I see myself living in a country, with no peers to gain knowledge?
And spending my life among people filled with envy, all angry at what I was given?

14. If I trusted and held on to their pledges, they betrayed every pledge.
When I seek their counsel, they fear my temperament. When I urge them, they weaken.

15. They appear good-natured when you look at their faces, but each harbors the fires of hatred within.
The stars of eloquence cast them away from my manners, like devils pelted with shooting stars.

16. Leave me and leave them. I am a person with my own way, and they have theirs.
It is no wonder that the blind do not benefit from the sun's light.

17. And likewise, the camel was never suited to smell musk meant for the one who smells the breeze of musk.
If they plot, how many plots were cast against Moses, Aaron, Pharaoh and Haman!

18. Take from the gifts of nights what shows itself, for sincerity may follow insincerity.
I must have words praising days, if I am able to speak.

19. I will clarify speech about the Azd, who are proof of religion and Islam's path.
And extract from my eloquence gems beyond Suhban's capacity to match in words,

20. Warrior sparks, when the lineage horses clash with spears,
So I can be for what I prioritized in wisdom, in donkeys and the mature man, a record.

21. Two full moons in my pride's halo, when prepared, necks bow to their rank, hands kiss the ground.
Two rains of generosity, pouring, their drops are horses, people, leaves and hail.

22. Generosity has homelands, and their home is wherever generosity was homelands.
They, they are the procession of power and authority, with none after them superior in merit.

23. So Hamir is Hamir in noble deeds, and in the formidable heights of knowledge, two mature men.
This is Shamam, this is Ridwa, this one overflowing in generosity, no, that one is Jayhan!

24. My lord of Qahtan's house, and whoever through them gains more reverence and Qahtan!
Do not look to fanciful illusions, whose only profit is loss and detriment.

25. And seek the kingdom's seekers, and gain victory, for in the kingdom are increases and decreases.
Many sheathed ones never attained the kingdoms they hoped for, until Kisra's palace contained them,

26. And he lost what he had aspired to, until Gumdan ruled the kingdom.
After discord, they obeyed and surrendered to Ibn al-Muhallab, and Khurasan found peace.

27. Seeking justice, he came on foot, so the winds of Tasm drove his enemies away.
He left Jadisa fettered, with no escape, and no enemy disobeying him,

28. No salvation in its expanses frees the beast, nor does its bird's flight deliver it.
If the Azd are the eye of glory, you two are the eye's pupils.

29. Do not look to deceptive fantasies, whose profit is loss and detriment.
And seek retaliation for the kingdom's seekers, and gain victory, for in the kingdom are increases and decreases.

30. Many sheathed swords never attained the kingdoms they hoped for, until Kisra's palace contained them.
Then he lost what he had aspired to, until Gumdan ruled the kingdom.

31. After discord they obeyed and surrendered to Ibn al-Muhallab, and Khurasan found peace.