1. What hounds that are unmuzzled,
What sheaths that have no swords,

2. What camels if I were to befriend,
That I may roam the expanse of desolation with camels.

3. Say to Abu Talib and say to
Idris words of true alliance,

4. How many boats can it be so,
Without resin or nails.

5. If you were Arabs in your reckoning,
By standards and measures,

6. Then between Nabit and Arabs there is only,
The cutting off of the wristbands.

7. No lesson learned, the lesson of coins, how many
Were unjustly minted on the path of dinars.

8. By Allah, the moth will never dare against
The trivet, except daring delusion,

9. And if the lion roared weakly, it would be ransomed
By a thousand dogs and a thousand pigs.

10. So do not be fooled by the bodies if
They come to you like the towering date palms,

11. Take care of the bathroom door, receive through it
Every kind of painting.

12. You came to a rock you butt heads with
While I am with a barrage of cans,

13. And how can one who I have drowned
In the seas of my destruction, hope to reach the shore of my realm,

14. Between his skull and the palm of my hand what is
Between the buildings and drums.

15. If I stir the likes of you, perhaps
The ducks will chirp for the little birds.