1. I am amazed by something, everything fears it
Yet it provides great benefit and great harm

2. It has a reddish mane and a long tail
A long neck not confined by a collar

3. It moves without legs and strikes without hands
Malice without a heart, feeding without a mouth

4. A single eye in many faces
Strangely, it is not described as blind

5. A black dot above its head
By my life, it is the adornment of the male serpent

6. Its secret has two meanings, like a date palm
Soft and ripe, the best riddle perplexes the mind

7. By day it seems a worthless fly
By night like a towering, haughty pillar

8. Though it guards the protected, it destroys those
Who live near it, two opposites to behold

9. It boils and shows vexation and burning
Against its people until even stone yields to it

10. If you change the last letter to a "ba"
You see a name, verb, then a letter and righteousness

11. But to misspell it, O just one, is harmful
So beware, it pricks like a needle

12. It has an opposite, which is eternity, so marvel
At an eternal one with two eyes, it is wondrous

13. If you do not find respite in the garden of eternity
Poor soul, beware you meet it in Hellfire

14. So you who ponder the riddle, if you tried to uncover it
You would return to the words spoken by Omar