1. I almost lost my composure, were it not for my forbearance,
One day at Al-Waqbah when accusing Daisam.

2. I held myself back from Mu'adh though he had clearly
Become the fighter of the throng at Rukiyah.

3. Were it not for the Banu Hind, I would have punished
Qudamah or he of the snarling mouth.

4. Rather, I called on the nobles of Mazin
For its days of brightness and gloom.

5. Men with mouths from which spears never depart,
Whose streets flow not with their tribesmen's blood.

6. I have bound them with a pact from what I say -
A long lasting one, unlike the flimsy one of Qayyim.

7. Why did the sister of Yarbu build her abode against me
And say to me on a night of masks:

8. "When I do not make her perfume a perfume but blind
The eyes of the complainers?"

9. The she-camel of Yarbu which bowed its ceiling
To its mother from a pasture near Dahtham.

10. You both passed the cattle of Bakr ibn Wa'il
To the two she-camels of the herdsman Nu'aym ibn Dirham.

11. Were it not for Ibn Mas'ud Sa'eed, I would have hit him
With a piercing arrow disliked by skin and blood.