1. My sweet daughters, you are not in my hands,
Except as hands without strength.

2. My sweet daughters, I do not wrong you,
God has found you as I have found you.

3. My sweet daughters, I do not confess
That one of you has pained me.

4. My sweet daughters, your mother
Is a slave woman and your father a slave.

5. My sweet daughters, your mother
Was hit and her womb torn open by a spear.

6. You avoid the paths of nobility as
The hammer avoids what is next to the monkey.

7. And it is as if the stabs of the living stabbed you in the back,
Date palms heavy with fruit carried by buzzards.

8. He has betrayed you as much as you know, as
Lubaid betrayed his brother-friend.