1. The rich complain about their children
To destroy the lineage of Tameem ibn Murr

2. And Khindif is closer in lineage to them
But we are a numerous household

3. If you befriend us, we'll befriend you
And if you reject us, we have patience

4. The lion knows well that we
Have help for them - what great help!

5. So how did you find when you tasted
Your muddled state of sweet and bitter?

6. In every place you see a palm trunk
Prostrating to its Lord, flattened

7. With ears like the flapping wings
Of a yellow cockroach when it buzzes

8. And bodies like palm tree trunks
Drenched by pouring rain

9. The vultures turned his blond hair red
And in his spine a fox snapped

10. And in his chest like a pocket
Gasping and growling at times

11. We and our brothers fully agree
On what's between us we concur

12. We have a cry then silence
Like a virgin camel's first bellow

13. We abandon home beyond home
Then clamor in it like locusts