1. Yearning led them to call you, and the intent
To accustom its mournful people to separation.

2. The yearnings of those seeking the land's rain rarely
Increase except to share exultantly from joy.

3. They shepherded resolve, until when it was erected
With spears of determination, the peaks of Ghoriyah,

4. And there came the news of life from every appeased
With roads like the water of rain from yellow drops.

5. The remainder of garments, a planet covered them
Suspended - you see the pleiades in its family flowing.

6. And the beauty of life returned folded, flying off
Were their carnelians - absence from holes of redness.

7. With what was hired from every valley, a pasture
Wounded the Pleiades, every rising one a virgin.

8. So they displayed themselves and inclined, after
What covered them, the stooping of the humped back.

9. As if rigid spear shafts from them lifeless
From what streamed from their Ravens of danger.

10. And the armpits constricted the breasts of every gasping one
Slippery of cheek - neither recognized nor virgin.

11. White faced camels like statues - every slow
Camel rocking its walk a span to a span

12. If they stood up, they did not get up except briefly
Their steps shortened from what they fear of the sea

13. With high humps for them as if they were
Raised with the lights of the crowned barrenness

14. Over every train a howdah dominates it
High stationed, low boarded, entering the place

15. They entered the lofty that work had made for it
Shoulders that came to it from right and left

16. And they turned for the ascents the necks of delirium
To every valley - not hot nor cold

17. For it a howdah to whichever when they compete
It straightens, from sins and from Waist

18. As it shook a South Arabian palm tree, violent wind
Without stillness - severe and without interruption

19. I have not forgotten Salma, and Salma is stingy
Deposits, I lowered them since ten pilgrimages

20. Nor her words, and the people overlooking for them
Eyes like the heat of embers, appearing flushed

21. Learn that the chests of the people boil
Against you, so be on guard against what you fear

22. So I said to her, no innocence from you, nor passion
Other than you, nor blood except yours flows

23. If the beasts of the earth were beneath you, they would become
At every gorge, lions and leopards

24. A pasture for their cubs - I would cut them off
To you with my sword or I would die and not know

25. And a saying woman said, are you not a rider
Do you not see what the abundance has been afflicted with

26. Save the Commander of the Faithful with a whiff
That your children complete with its abundant rain

27. So I said to her, that which I gain pride from
By day and night each affliction of my chest

28. By your life when I spoke, I am not who
Protects the camels - you knew from travel

29. Nor does night burden the beast when it darkens
Over me, if night burdens my ease

30. I used to be when worries unleashed their saddlebags
To me, so I said travel, I secured its burdens

31. And I loaded it the ribs of dry wood as if they were
The bowed well ropes of twisting from the conscience

32. With it the diseased camel sways as if they are
The ribs of the litter, the tracks visible

33. Yes O best of people but Muhammad
Behavior and the foremost of people in thanks and reward

34. We came to you from Najd on a rain-nurtured
She camel - he twists necks ahead of their teary eyes

35. Pillars of limbs accustomed to great journeys
Lions of the sands - no cowardice nor smallness

36. They began and under the banner from them a shoulder
Signs of years and youth upon youth

37. So she came and from what her sandals clad
Anklets in the noble studded heels

38. So we did not reach you O son of Marwan, without you
A prayer of the foremost in rest or dawn

39. Nor is it but an affair whenever the sparks of pebbles collide
In every desolate and barren land

40. And the rendering of disheveled hair - they raised for them
A structure he built atop success upon success

41. If the wind shakes it or the ropes slacken for it
The forces strike the ropes with the saw

42. You see it a heaven between two machinations - it has
Besides that a shadow of agreement and no veil

43. When last night folded over us protectively
You see it patched - worst of patches

44. If the powers incline to us, striking the ropes with the saw
You see it as a heaven between two schemes, having

45. Other than that a shadow of agreement, and no screen
When last night folded protectively over us

46. You see it patched - the worst of patches.