1. I swore by the Lord of the flowing winds, when they blow
And wherever they approached from Marwah of the house, Zamzam

2. You did not increase me in fear when you detained me
Upon the first fear which you used to know

3. When my soul remembers your hands descending with it
The Night of Power has passed and the sacred month

4. I seek refuge in a grave wherein are the shrouds of Munthir
And they are for the hands of the ones seeking refuge, sacred

5. Did you not see me calling Malik loudly
So he may hear when choking closed my mouth

6. You will know that when the liars attributed lies to me
When the compiled talk circulated

7. O sons of Munthir, no neighbor can seek refuge from Munthir's grave
A neighbor who is mightier when he calls and safer

8. Will Munthir then bring me out from Mukhayyis
With him an excuse for me, his voice speaking

9. I seek refuge with Bishr and Al-Mu'allá the two of them
Sons of Malik, most faithful of neighbors and noblest

10. Against Al-Hárith the savior, `Iyád the son of Dayhath
So Abu Layla returned it to him while he was most unjust

11. He was no neighbor but a bucket attached
To a rope of sinews, its knot unbreakable

12. He returned the brother of `Amr the son of Sa`d with his repelling
All of them while they are the divided loot

13. So whoever is the neighbor of the son of Al-Mu'allá has then ascended
Above people, fearing no harm or injury

14. And which father after Al-Mu'allá and Munthir
And Bishr is called to she who is most silent?

15. They are the select few fulfilling the pledge of what
Their pledge mended the rift and the blood

16. And how can one with fifty shackles and rings
Upon him survive the night which is darkest?

17. I refused to endure the night and the people among them
Staying awake with me neither sleeping nor slumbering

18. And if it were deaf mountains bearing
As my feet carried though nearly crushed

19. O Malik if you bring me out safe
You would be as he of Nu'mán to one enjoying favor

20. And if instead the guest of lightning and thunder
Were hosted by me when fate frowned

21. As if the meteors of Qábis were under a darkness
For him from the hardness of granite, no, he is blindest

22. My heart would be easier to fear him
And cling to death more readily in resignation

23. When his fangs are bared from incisors
Between an unpierced muzzle and unsevered lips

24. He has two sons who continually run to them
With the limbs of a nimble old man thereby he is nourished

25. And the first they tasted after weaning them
Was blood and fingers from a slain man and wrist

26. We say to the limbs of men, to them
And they have none but the people as food

27. You have not seen two more daring than them
A father whose hands, when weaning, are crimson

28. Khalid taught me the walk of the shackled
And I was not lacking his lead, learning

29. I say to my two legs upon which
Are fetters and irons restricting each step

30. Is there not among the sons of Al-Járúd a scent for us
As the scent of the gap-toothed Euphrates wafted, rippling

31. And whoever seeks the efforts of Al-Mu'allá will find for him
An ascension on his palms he who stumbles

32. Efforts for Al-Mu'allá led him to glory
Until he reached the heights, its ladder complete

33. So excellent are the two glories of the Ignorance within them
And they, before these people, submitted to God

34. Houses are counted in the tribes of their people
While yours among each two houses is greatest

35. May God comfort me and restrain me
With the mercy of Him who is more merciful than my father

36. I seek refuge with Bishr, Al-Mu'allá and Munthir
Pillars they were, armed and helmeted

37. And thirdly the guided among them in his whiteness
To goodness in night though it is darkest