1. Are we not a branch that you knew to be supported
And a highland from which its floods split off

2. And Sa'd bin Dhubyan had known that we
Are the pasture to which its grazing livestock return

3. If you are not harmed in affairs and are not
For a violent war, having one who makes it rage

4. Then you are not more guided in the lands than she who
Wanders confused when her guide was lost

5. The best part of Jarbu' called ‘Aqil for an incident
Of the matter, so he was indifferent and his intellect failed him

6. So I said to him, why didn't you respond to a tribe
Whose night visitor came when its messenger came

7. And we will have from Rabwah which your
Horses cannot reach or Jurthumah which your raiding parties cannot raid

8. So you fell for days not yours, and their glory
Is well-known, and their mature she-camels

9. When people recoil from evil, the clan of Jabir
Set out for it, their youth and their elders

10. Why don't the clan of Sa‘d attack with a raid
In numbers, after its runoff has flowed

11. So you can catch up to a heavily laden camel when the unweaner calls
And catch up to dead people whose minds were not complete