1. No people are more honorable than Tamim
When their virgins go out watered like camels ready to depart.

2. The warriors when the battalion withdraws in defeat
And those who spend the night after every halt.

3. Those who guarantee protection to their neighbor against death
And those who in the morning feed every outcast.

4. O sons of Gudanah, I have set you free
And gifted you to ‘Adiyy the son of Ji’al.

5. So I gifted you to the most deserving of you in your ancient ways
An exemplar in all good fortune.

6. Were it not for ‘Adiyy I would have docked your noses
From between the flesh of a delicate nose and mustache.

7. That is how I satirize a tribe when I lampoon them
I pulverize them with the missiles of proverbs.

8. O sons of Kulayb, are you like the family of Mujashi’
Or, by your father, twittering like a sandgrouse?

9. Twitter with your twin necks, for I
Am a man who composes satires, of high stock.

10. And the son of Maragha has now turned monk
Begging, praying, and asking.

11. And in shackles the iron left its mark upon his leg
A trace of the fetters on his ankles.

12. The elders of the family of Mujashi’ ransomed him
Each of them being most generous.

13. They ransomed him not for his own sake, and indeed may be seen
On his right wrist the scar of chains.

14. He did not wear the crown of the family of Muharriq
Except they and the fabricators of tales.