1. أَعَن واقِدٍ خَبَّرَتني وَاِبنُ جَمرَةٍ

    وَآلِ شَهابِ خامِدٌ كُلُّ واقِدِ

    Did you tell me of Waqid and Ibn Jamrah,

    and the house of Shihab? Every flame is quenched.

  2. وَما الناسُ إِلّا خائِفو اللَهَ وَحدَهُ

    إِذا وَقَعَ التُمِيُّ في كَفِّ ناقِدِ

    And people fear none but God alone

    when the coin falls into an assayer's palm.

  3. رَقَوا وَرَقَدنا فَاِعتَلوا هُوَيَّنا

    وَتِلكَ المَراقي غَيرُ هَذي المَراقِدِ

    They climbed, and we slept; so they rose gently.

    And those ascents are unlike these resting places.

  4. فِراقُ دُرٍّ أَعطاكَ غَيرَ مُقَصِّرِ

    نِظامَ الثُرَيّا أَو فَريدَ الفَراقِدِ

    Parting from pearls has given you, without stint,

    the Pleiades' necklace, or the peerless one among the Farqad stars.

  5. إِذا خَلَجَتني مِن حَياةٍ مَنيَّةٌ

    فَلَستُ عَلى الباغي العَدُوِّ بِحاقِدِ

    If death snatches me from life,

    then I bear no grudge against the hostile oppressor.

  6. وَأَفرَقُ مِن يَومٍ تُصَمُّ غَواتُهُ

    فَتَعولُ إِعوالَ النِساءِ الفَواقِدِ

    And I dread a day whose wayward ones are deafened,

    so they wail as bereaved women wail.