1. You disowned me after knowing me, O Lami
After our youthfulness and honorable prime

2. And after our nights in Suiqa's atmosphere
With monkeys’ uncouthness and the veiled bride’s veil

3. I did not fear that advice would wear out between us
In the barren desert, the steep trail, and bleak plains

4. So turn away or reconcile if you wish, and make peace
In the morning, restore our bond, and submit

5. If it is only as you said, so let me know
With estrangement, for you have not tried except to spurn me

6. By my life, I made clear on the day of Suiqa
To one with a heart and aimed direction

7. No, by God, I have not betrayed a covenant
And indeed my father before me is of unblemished honor

8. Baring the sword, white and sharp
Showing its edge to the watchful branded one

9. Giving wealth without stinginess
And striking the nose of the wretched scowler

10. Making his houses permitted with ease
To one who seeks refuge with him and for benefit

11. Wielding it like the staff of a hedgehog
With a palm like one made sluggish by wine

12. Beside Hubayy two nights as if
He forfeits misfortune or makes his arrows overflow

13. Shaking them for two periods, then making them overflow
As she was unleashed, not to be corrected

14. Getting pleasure from cracking peaks with a drink
And pressing down high rugged ground with something to suck on

15. In the morning, he destroyed the houses of Bani Abs and Afan
With a truthful, generous outpouring of water and blood

16. Their beards were the staff’s beard, so he drove them
To a year whose rats were not weaned

17. With a roaring not mixed with croaking
Whose first part did not wait for the last

18. And he stirs them from every crag and foot
And every rough ground with a stuffed full cruse

19. So the evilest raving madman was succeeded with good
And every scoundrel damned as wicked

20. By your life, we and these warriors
Are in an era whose claws are not blunted

21. So if you do not call to other than what is beneficial
Leave me be, and honor whom you wish and drive away

22. With me are debts of all good and evil
So my misery is for the miserable, and my bounty for the prosperous

23. As you see, I am only prepared
A brother sharing roses without blemish

24. Your censure is but that which is past
Upon me is like the clothes of forbidden disgrace

25. And wondering at our composure
Even if war had made him anxious, he would not have fretted

26. We found honor, when endangered
More urgently in need of protection from slanderous Yemeni calumniator

27. I see the war of some people pounding while our war
Subsides, so we silence every venerated one with it

28. You see the land sickened by us in the open
Puzzled by us in a group colored like snakeskin

29. If one of us snarls, the bite of another
Thrashes about in us with an equal bite

30. We have a catapult with which we drive away from our lands
Every covetous blameworthy one they stone with catapults

31. My masters are sons who succeeded each other
Like stars of a Tameem sky with flags

32. I left behind the wicked, neither participating nor spying
But God has excused my property and livelihood

33. So my people and enemies think that whenever
They do the same, I will speak

34. Muad saw me guiding so they warned each other
Against contending with me bearing a banner

35. The daydreams of gentle souls stop them from me
While I raise my voice to the submissive cattle

36. If a people attack me and point
Their robes of ink-stained Yemeni cloth at me

37. Necklaces appear among us
Whose old ruins collapse in every season

38. After that my sea raged, foaming
With every poet, plumage-seeker, and pretentious one

39. So they came, and even if they climbed on the mother of some of them
He shouted but did not listen or speak

40. At a time when intelligence was completed and the talent
Of a discerning discreet one from a gloomy brooding one was realized

41. My children and wealth are surrendered to protect my honor
And my words are like those of a determined endtime preacher

42. We roar to protect the sanctuary of the mighty when we want
And we protect our sanctuary with straight-flying arrows

43. People see from us a black stripped hide
And the nape of a fierce lion, snarling

44. When you want my glory among Tameem and my position
You will find for me a maternal uncle of unblemished and perfect lineage

45. You will find me among their elite and best
A guardian of their vulnerabilities without committing crimes

46. You recoiled on your heels the day you came
Plundering the spoils of wretched Khamees

47. Is he not bestowing, beneficial, reconciling
Loyal to relatives, vanquishing opponents, and supporting the oppressed?

48. Ravenous hyenas of dust born together
On a dunghill