1. If you had wished, you would have shortened my blame and my rebuke
For fate has divided its days against me

2. Do not think I turn my eyes away out of despair
For sadness is for the cheek, not for the man

3. How many tribulations have unveiled me
Yet I did not care for the doubt of the momentous event

4. We are a people, when times get tough on us
We become tougher than lions in our dens

5. We are cried upon, and do not cry for anyone
For we are harder in our hearts than camels

6. Of a people, calamities whirl around them
Yet they do not heed the wind's gust on the mountain

7. The best of all people are the family of Mirdas, and the purest of them
Of shortcomings, and the most righteous of slipups

8. If you meet them, you smell from them in their sittings
The smell of youths, pounding on peaks

9. White of face, when their faces shine
In the darkness of night, they illuminate the darkness of the lost child

10. They are not disturbed by tribulations from their time
Nor do they stay up at night fretting

11. You do not see them when the fire of tribulation is kindled
Deaf when the caller calls from adversity

12. My soul is ransom for them, a people, if weighed
Would lean over people, like a smooth pearl on a thread

13. O most generous of people, of Arabs and non-Arabs
And bravest of people, armed and unarmed

14. You are the cloud that storms without fatigue
You are the stallion that gives without stinginess

15. You are the one who never brought horses charging
Except shaking the people of plains and mountains

16. If it were possible to spare you of pain
We would have spared you in the pupils and eyelashes

17. The protected are ransomed by men whose goodness is little
Just as the growth of water is little in barren land

18. If only the kings had compensation for what passed you
Yet they do not equal the value of compensation