1. The heart longs for the one who has departed,
When he disappeared behind the little hill.

2. The doe moves slowly as she walks ahead,
And he follows her with the walk of the hungry wolf in the early morning.

3. The living gathered their riding animals, confused,
A guide seeing the path like the rightly guided.

4. A newborn whom the jinn birthed, or upon whom
The devils cast hatred and envy.

5. Their riding animals startled when the dawn lit up with them,
The Aal Al Duhaa clan active from the callers of the morning.

6. I continued to follow them, with tearful eyes,
That you'd think were full of discharge, but no discharge was in the eye.

7. Until the eyesight weakened, and its adversaries
Overcame it with tears like pulsing veins.

8. O Tayy of the plain and mountains, your tryst
Is like the hunter seeking game in the lion's den.

9. The lion who seeks prey with his claws
Reaches for its vitals from the most protected area of its body.

10. Tameem cried out, and its wounds pained it,
As they were moved from one thin land to another.

11. Nothing remained of the old man except what
The days left behind, like worn out cloth.

12. No help comes to a man with a horse
Against Tameem, if he seeks help from anyone.

13. If he calls out with the war cry of the Azd, it alarms them
As the lion's roar alarms the herd.

14. If it were time for Tameem's turn to water, and they were told:
"The Azd are at the Prophet's basin," they would not turn back.

15. Or if Allah sent down a revelation that He would punish them
If they did not return to fight the Azd, they would not return.

16. That's because Tameem left Salamah
To the Azd clan - every liar and sprawling army.

17. Like an unattended camel if they take it without
Payment or approval fee, and access its proscribed areas.

18. It left its sanctities to the Azd, exposed,
Without deviating towards money or children.

19. Do not feel safe, O Tameemi, for your body
When the greatest body has died if you do not renounce.

20. Let not the old man think that the shame washes
His people of his lies and fraud.

21. If the old man experiences hardship in his days,
The command falls into the hands of the firmly knotted rope.

22. Like some of what happened in the days of our early ones -
The Bani Al Sayyid clan faced from us the night of Sanad.

23. And Daarim threw a hundred of them for us
Into the blaze, when they came down into the valleys.

24. Coming down burnt, and Amr kindling it,
And were it not for the clan's fat, it would not have caught fire.

25. So ask Zurarah and Al Mamoom what they did
To the dead of Uwara from Zaghwaan and Al Kidad.

26. As they marked the army's formations perfectly -
The necks of their prisoners in the strong knotted ropes.

27. I refused to lampoon Dabba for her to lampoon me -
Uff to Dabba, an ally and a supporter!

28. O Dabba, if you disbelieve the days of our bounty
Then you have disbelieved the hands that gave bounty.

29. The day of Uwara from the days of our bounty,
And the day of Salmaa, O Dabba, a hand after hand.

30. Every friend whose progeny time destroys,
Yet Dabba's progeny did not diminish or pass away.

31. If the Most Merciful did not know what is hidden
From His creation, the Bani Asad clan would be hidden from Him.

32. It does not benefit the Asadi food for himself
Despite surplus over anyone.

33. A people who were the first to live in the abode of disgrace,
As the tent peg remained in it.

34. They revealed their shame to the Azd, and apologized
After the dishonor with lies and fraud.

35. For every clan they know they have virtue
Over Al Ja'rra, and you have no virtue over anyone.

36. And ask Qufaira in chivalry - did she witness
The Hudhaily race between breakage and scattering?

37. Or was there poetry in Ghaaib that his son's
Poetry resembles, so he attained poetry from its source?

38. It came to him as a drop of evil water, despicable,
Taken to an evil valley cleaved into the land.

39. How can Tameem say, O son of their old man,
When I have been honest and did not invent lies?

40. Whoever slanders Tayy one day when
Its strong young men are active, slides and stumbles when climbing.

41. Qahtaan submitted to the kings of Kulain,
As the tribes submitted to the kings of Ud.

42. A people who, beyond the east of earth, have its west as their domain
When the people of earth compete in glory.

43. Whoever barks at them, they meet with an army from Mina
So pebbles pour from the blessed right valley.

44. So among Tameem are their equals, though they were not created
Until the allotment of worth and number passed away.

45. Were it not for Quraish, who have a right in the Book,
And that obeying them leads to guidance.

46. We followed Tameem as our early ones
Followed their early ones in epochs long past.