1. How many a caller and the noble ones below him
Complain to God and the destitute complain to al-Walid

2. Calling upon the Commander of the Faithful and below him
A herd whose udders are sucked dry by the suckling young

3. Far from the watering places the oryx surrenders
To it and the guides of the wilderness lose their way

4. He spends the night fending off wolves from his family
And were he to die his bones would not be picked clean by the birds

5. They saw me and called out to me as I led my she-camel
With voices of weeping and free women wailing

6. And said “Help us if you can with a prayer
For us to the best of men, you who visit him”

7. So I said to them “If God brings my she-camel
And me to where I've seen the wolf every evening

8. Prowling around your emaciated ones and attacking them early
To tear off some carrion from those among you it besieges

9. Help Mudar, for years of hardship succeed
Each other, crushing their bones with irresistible force

10. While all other tribes in the countryside have open roads
And they are where hunger lies between Tihama

11. And Khaybar and the valley where hunger is always present
A valley whose water is only fit for dogs, its interior

12. Filled with the crying banners of hunger unfurled
And they even considered slaughtering the dogs that

13. Previously, when the rains were delayed, were protected by them as lions