1. Abu Malik visited the graves
Despite the enemies and their strings

2. And Al-Farazdaq instructed upon death
Umm Jareer and her spears

3. A tribe like the leather shield
Whose affairs cannot be undone

4. They are wronged but do not wrong
When al-Ees are tied with ropes

5. And they do not prevent their forgetfulness
When war prowls with its claws

6. But the laggards are scoundrels
Like the motes behind the dust.

7. I censured Kulaib though she did not deny
Like the censure of childbirth with its dust.