1. Built it Al-Aqra' the eminent architect
A peril in lofty and towering peaks

2. Foundling among its pillars and of them
Zurarah of fame and graces

3. With two lives and two fates we build
Pillars of their glory erected

4. Its pillars lineages and they its builders
Who then like the pillars and builders?

5. Lineages of Darim and Banat 'Awf
For the best and noblest mothers

6. Why then do you not count the clan of Kulayb
And lament others with eulogies?

7. Your boasting, O Jarir, you a slave
To other than your father, one of the disgraces

8. You care, O Jarir, for naught
While the elegies went to the reciters

9. How can you refute what of it in Oman
And what in the mountains of Egypt proclaimed?

10. I surpassed you in intricate and meaning
And House of the Love-Struck and the Beating Hearts