1. غَضِبَت دودانُ مِن مَسجِدِنا

    وَبِهِ يَعرِفُهُم كُلُّ أَحَد

    Dudan grew angry at our mosque,

    And by it everyone knows them.

  2. لَو هَدَمنا غُدوَةً بُنيانَهُ

    لَاِنمَحَت أَسماؤهُم طولَ الأَبَد

    If we demolished its building one morning,

    Their names would be erased for all eternity.

  3. إِسمُهُم فيهِ وَهُم جيرانُهُ

    وَاِسمُهُ الدَهرَ لِعَمرِو بنِ أَسَد

    Their name is in it, and they are its neighbors,

    And its name belongs forever to Amr ibn Asad.

  4. كُلَّما صَلَّوا قَسَمنا أَجرَهُ

    فَلَها النِصفُ عَلى كُلِّ جَسَد

    Whenever they pray, we divide its reward:

    So half is theirs for every body.

  5. وَبَنوا دودانِ حَيٌّ سادَةٌ

    حَلَّ بَيتُ المَجدِ فيهِم وَالعَدَد

    And the sons of Dudan are a tribe of lords;

    The house of glory and strength in numbers have settled among them.

  6. وَلَقَد أَروحُ بِمُشرِفٍ ذي مَيعَةٍ

    عَسِرِ المَكَرَّةِ ماؤُهُ يَتَفَصَّدُ

    And indeed I ride out at evening on a tall steed full of youthful vigor,

    Hard to turn back, its sweat streaming out,

  7. مَرِحٍ يَطيرُ مِنَ المِراحِ لُعابُهُ

    وَيَكادُ جِلدُ إِهابِهِ يَتَقَدَّدُ

    Frisky, its saliva flies from sheer exuberance,

    And the skin of its hide almost splits into strips.

  8. حَتّى عَلَوتُ بِهِ مَشَقَّ ثَنِيَّةٍ

    طَوراً أَغورُ بِها وَطَوراً أُنجِدُ

    Until I rode it up the track of a mountain pass,

    At times I descend along it into the lowlands, and at times I ascend to the highlands.