1. Is there any hope to obtain the goods of the living that I see,
Or is the abode of Duma after a thousand years desolate?

2. Or did an elder weep and not finish shedding his tears
For his loved ones on the day of parting, excused?

3. But you are in Firtaj of sincere and loyal people,
So rejoice, O Hanbal, travel cheerfully!

4. And one day you arrived at Al-Unayyim,
At the abode of Khazzaz, with an abundant view.

5. I told the caravan, had they not hurried
And avoided me, to greet the living or travel on.

6. A night passed by the need of a soul,
Then head straight in travel or deviate.

7. Young virgin girls grew up together
Of good character, fearful of what should be feared.

8. Wearing fine garments and brocade and robes
Of different colors, though not silk.

9. The talk is not to plunder or eavesdrop,
Nor a secret to gossip in the living assemblies.

10. The necessities of life have evaded me,
And a nimble she-camel pursues me.

11. She makes the walker stumble if she gets angry,
When the fetters cling to her legs.

12. Her companion, her father, is from a mixed breed,
And her uncle, her maternal uncle, a broker.

13. She remained a year and months as if new,
Wasting away in Al-Hira with anxiety.

14. And she mated though she had no experience,
And he sold her for money to an outbidder.

15. After her vengeance, estrangement from her
Is impossible, however much the fetters cling.

16. She kicks the neighbors and butts, when she kneels,
As the light was accessible to the people.

17. As if a stray dog was under her cover,
And a rooster collided with her legs, and a pig.

18. As if she is spotted between miscarriages
And barn owls, jerboas, terrified and confused.

19. The thigh of the wearer of a Qinis-garment felt it
From Bani Asad, so he bent over, and his step faltered.

20. He runs with small gravel-like stones painfully,
As if her lower jaws are crushing.

21. Until the bulls roused because of her leaping,
So they let them go, not knowing the result.

22. He turned away majestically, and they intended to catch up,
As if they are hornets around his sides.

23. Until when you say the vanguards reached him,
Though if he wished, the confusers would have saved him.

24. He turned upon her and did not fail, harassing her,
As if he is pleased with following them.

25. He shook her with a thin that is stripping,
As if he is agonized when mounting them.

26. Then he continued, his shadow competing,
As if it is a terrified and defeated gambler.

27. Woe to Tameem and Thow Qaran, he has a hump
From spring, and in Shaaban fettered!

28. The cold outfitted my she-camels and their rider
From the water of Baswa one day, and he is assembled.

29. Goodwill did not neglect them when they fled
Until the valleys and houses gave them refuge.

30. Wicked people, with harshness around their necks,
And their endeavor unlike people's is confused.

31. Woe to their mothers, an assembly of insects, their homes
With spears, and in goodwill, rejection!

32. When they squint at me spitefully
As if their eyes from hatred are defective.

33. I avoided their water when I saw them,
Evil carriers of buckets in their hands.

34. Left behind while people fulfill their purpose,
The worst of trusts, hornets and more hornets!

35. If not for the aspirations whose supererogations are hoped for,
A calamitous army would have made the disabled miserable.

36. If not for the aspirations, their ostrich-like ways would have weakened,
And their rider in a group would have said: March on!

37. Raising the Probhari fortress, their zeal,
And the trash comes out from under the cisterns.

38. You strut when your slippers turn green,
And your pockets contain lots of junk.

39. The reporter of news foretold a bad day
For Abd Al-Qays, mentioned and recorded.

40. Surely heading to a people, even if distant,
Is easier than staying with the feeble and weak.

41. She meets the equipage in the bosoms of its abode,
Walking with hay scattered before her.