1. Old age replaced youth as a guest
Who stayed and did not wish to leave

2. When white hair banished blackness
Like dawn ending the night's darkness

3. Flirtatious eyes have long killed me
With no remorse for their slain

4. Each charming beloved's glance
Was like an arrow shot from hiding

5. They left Orwa and Al-Murqish before
Both were struck and could not endure

6. They left Abi Dhu'aib distraught
And exhausted Kuthayyir and Jameel

7. And left Ibn Abi Rabiah's rhetoric
Through which he went about enchanted

8. But I am not of those they killed
For they left my heart confused

9. If your ancestor was the father
Of all people, women would not bear the stingy