1. You will receive poems from me, if I live,
That every speaker falls short of composing.

2. When heard, minds are illuminated by them,
When the superiority of the deed is counted by every doer.

3. And you are a man of firm determination,
Which the outstretched hand of the ambitious falls short of.

4. They have pledged your father due to his virtue,
Over his people, and the truth is evident to the discerners.

5. Had they known the most faithful to protecting their blood,
And the most manifest virtue among those virtues,

6. They would have from your father Al-Mustafa, feared with it,
The hacking swords on the day of pledging allegiance.

7. You have excelled, O Banu Shayban, in grace and leadership,
As Shayban excelled Bakr the son of Wa’il.

8. And Bakr excelled all of Rabee’ah
With the deeds of the exalted and the early glories.

9. You protected Ma’add on the day of Kisra the son of Hormuz
With a decisive strike that straightened every leaning.

10. You conquered Dhi Qar, so its affair has not ceased
To this day, the affair of the humble submissive one.

11. With the plain of Dhi Qar when the tribes came to you
Following the example of other tribes.

12. And you had virtues through which you surpassed
Every protector from Ma’add and Naeel.

13. The vanguard of Hamurz knows that you
Are jealous on the day of trial during hardships.

14. Houses carried you to the glory of virtues and exaltation,
To which honor belongs during sieges.

15. Among them is the house of Hawazin, through which
Bakr excels the skill of the warrior.

16. And the house of Muthanna, who frustrated the elephants,
In Babylon, when Babylon was ruled by Persia.