1. Allah granted Sa'd what suited him,
So he filled the markets before dawn with camels.

2. He blamed fate when times were hard,
Yet he was not patient in the empty wilderness.

3. A terrible traveling companion is one whose habit is,
When reprimanded for shortcomings, to blame fate.

4. So I did not answer the open desert when it spread its cover,
With its humiliating evenings and white dawn.

5. If only an Umayyad ambition kept him awake,
He would not sleep forgetting my great deeds.

6. He slept surrendering to degradation while
My departure diminished the young she-camels with calves.

7. Their backs had drunk blood
While Korah persistently cast stones.

8. If they escape me and I do not reach the goal,
I am no hunter of Quraysh or knight.