1. If a generous person gave you with their right hand one day,
But you returned the next day, their left hand would give to you.

2. A left hand returning generosity after the right -
Humility receives while arrogance owns what is its due.

3. To it belongs a chapter for which the Exalted One built,
Noble qualities which only righteous hands could accrue,

4. From mankind except for Quraysh and the Darim,
When short hands surpassed in greed the generous hands' virtue.

5. Prepare for me a gift you had accustomed me to,
Flowing heavily, its pouring forth profuse.

6. You inherited from Al-Jaroud temperance and restraint,
Abundant when the winter reddened the cheeks of its youth.

7. Of the black ones who carry the orphans as if they were
Chicks upon the nests - downy are their body hair and down.

8. You see fire circling them like the ostrich,
It has marked thighs that float with fat plump.

9. It has a white rest on which its fingers relax,
Measured when the miser is stricken with miserliness' malady.

10. So this is my praise for you, which will remain
With an eternal radiance and brilliant beauty.

11. And you are to Abd al-Qays a sword he draws
Against those who oppose her while you are her crescent moon.