1. We gained booty when the booty of Fuqaim was plentiful,
Indeed, every one who opposed Fuqaim, gained spoils from him,

2. So we came to him from the land of Bakr ibn Wa’il,
Driving the short-nosed camels with slender legs,

3. I am the poet who defends the rights of his people,
And the likes of me suffice to avert the wrongs that oppress them,

4. Whenever I opposed a people, I carried them,
Upon the embers until the disease was decisively cured by the decisive one.

5. With an army that we assembled, looking like erect sand dunes,
Whose weapons deafen the hearing and whose zeal bewilders the minds,

6. Of abundant stones and intense, far-reaching clamor,
With tall, lofty standards under which birds take shade,

7. Led towards the land of the enemy with their arrows,
Filled with them as if their horses were created knotted with plaits by foreigners,

8. Its diverse tribes which he unites between them
With whatever command is assigned to us, its dividends,

9. When it marches from an abode, its drinking-places are eased for it,
The summits of which are deaf heights and scattered watering-places,

10. When it reaches abundant, fresh water, its vanguards drink their fill,
Until its camels are surfeited,

11. We attacked Bakr thereby at dawn, so their captives at morning,
Were distributed with shares among us as spoils,

12. With it we raided the land of the enemy, and our gallant horsemen,
Got its booty and shared it out,

13. And in the presence of Allah’s Messenger, when he clenched his fist,
And filled it with the elite captives of Tamim,

14. We then released the elite Tamimi captives after,
They tossed and turned and their complaints against them intensified,

15. Those were our efforts long ago and our striving,
Was generous, and the best striving ever is that of the generous,

16. Efforts that no Fuqaimite comprehended their virtue,
Nor did Nahshal, whose rocks and sleeping-places,