1. Alas! Hinaydah scoffed at me when she saw me
A captive whose steps were fettered in shackles

2. Had she known that my bonds are the strongest
Towards the Fire, she would have spoken wisely

3. By my life! If I restrain myself, for long have I
Strived and guided the she-camel towards ignorance

4. For thirty years I see not any glimpse
Except I strengthen my saddle for it

5. To me came the talks of al-Baith and after him
Green chrysolites of chrysocola to the sand

6. So I said: I think the son of the wicked woman thought
That I was diverted from shooting arrows with skill

7. If my fetters were a vow I vowed
Then I have no distraction from my people's accounts

8. I am the guarantor, the guardian over them
It is I or the like of me who defends their accounts

9. Had they lost what they said "Graze from us" you would find them
Miserly with the precious thing from the esteemed lineage

10. When they approved of me as the guarantor
Of my people's accounts in the mountains and in the plains

11. However long I live, they will not guarantee me, nor will I
Put down accounts for them, as long as my slipper moves

12. And I will not be, when the dust rises over a man,
The next morning after the wager, with the slow or stumbling

13. Rather you see for me the utmost glory preceding
When the steeds are led by the excellent stallions

14. And around you are people whose minds you returned
To them, they would be like the moth in ignorance