1. May God reward Sa'eed with goodness as a supererogatory act,
I mean Sa'eed ibn Qais, the brave man of Hamdan.

2. He saved me from a dark, dusty pitfall,
Were it not for his intercession, I would have been shrouded.

3. Tameem ibn Murr said, "We will not speak to him,"
Yet Qais ibn Aylan refused that.

4. He cleared my throat of saliva that had been choking me
And God made my secret known after concealment.

5. His noble qualities came to my rescue,
His forefathers, when the best of Qahtan thrived,

6. Qais nurtured it, and Zayd, and the young man Karb,
And he of lofty mountains, of the sons of Uthman,

7. And Thu Rayn, and Sayf, and the son of Thu Yazan,
And Alqamah before them - I mean the son of Nabhan.