1. The lightning flashed from Najd, so it yearned for Najd
O lightning, what passion did you arouse from ardor!

2. And it is not passion from ardor for Najd, but
One yearns for Najd if he settles in Najd

3. The treaty from India, pilgrims from life
The folds of lightning smile, thunder moans

4. It unties the knots of raindrops between allies
It unties them on behalf of the pearl's tribe

5. A girl whom I see the world and what is in its veil
And I cast aside what is in its upgrade, the eternal paradise

6. She is the sun who hides the sun from her when it sets
Dazzling the sisters-in-law, radiant ancestry

7. Pretty-faced, sun-like vision, voluptuous hips
Slender waist, tall stature

8. With the gaze of one who looks at me, or a tender
Gazelle, with it or a glancing young deer

9. Her cheek is of roses, her mouth of pearls
Although her spittle is of fragrant musk

10. To keep receiving your wishes is sweeter than wine
And more delightful than honey

11. Oh, may God destroy the doves! For she
Wept and melted a gentle heart, yearning for India

12. And why did he mention India when between them
Lies the line of poetry or thin sheets of India

13. And a lion over the bare hills of horses well-groomed
Alas! Who can protect you from a lion on the bare hills

14. And desolate desert where the wild beasts roam its bushes
And the wolves howl in it, strong packs, sturdy

15. Aspiring, were it not for the guide, it would not know
A guide to it how the path is to the goal

16. Travelers, what they contain is no provision for a caravan
Annual, that the land contains in it of ruins

17. On account that if the wind blew its ruins
To every ostrich from an ostrich in it, cast off

18. As if charging my steed its struggle
To the high honor, to the generous nobility

19. To the guiding moon, to the son of Mufraj
To the pure lineage, to the fortunate star

20. To the sword, the sword of the state, the King who
The pearls of his verses charm with praise

21. To the fierce lion in the zeal of war
When it reddens in the thicket of spears, the glare of the lion

22. Of the supportive whose steeds
With the lives of those who opposed them, perpetually harvest

23. Stars of Qahtan in the darkness of night
To the number of Ead and the sharpness of Lu'd

24. The wounds of the Jurrahis, responsive
Which the hand of David strung with beads

25. It has from the Indian iron each polished
With the water of twisting, passing, and edge

26. And from the breed of written lines each gentle
That delights you with the bright, strong youth

27. And from the progeny of supplies for travelers every packed
That Solomon gave to Al-Azd

28. I met with another who charged patience its Lord
With the line of poetry and prose, pure and solid

29. When they conflicted between it and its slogan
Death was sweeter to it than bondage

30. I called upon it from the secret of Ma'n knights
Who make death taste like pleasant life

31. So it rejected with rejection when the spears mixed
And recognized the hopes of a man for you, new

32. O Mahmoud, you have been good, done good, gracious
And I alone am not good at benevolence

33. So live high, not weak in power
And your torrential sea is not scanty of supply

34. But I complain of matters that left me
In desolation, from the bosom of my honor, distant

35. O intimate of anxiety! I do not know of anxiety and sorrow
Should I conceal what is in the bosom of my honor, distant

36. And I to the understanding you possess complain
My worries from the length of my estrangement and tiredness

37. So one of understanding from one of discernment in any comfort
But from one of foolishness in hardship

38. And whoever combines the discernment you have in bounty
Then that is one I did not exaggerate in praising

39. Wise of bounty and events are many
And the likes of you are called to events

40. Is it not strange that your anger which
I did not intend, spilled my supply

41. And stranger than this, that the father of bounty
My shortcoming appeared from it, and that was not of intention

42. And stranger than it, that my pearls are with him
And it is not what I want of his pearls with me

43. So what a wonder! Why did your glory
Not specialize with a virtuous deed that remains as evening conversation after me

44. With a favor, if I say regarding it a poem
I compose its rhythms as necklaces of glory

45. If you say "Return me to the east" it would not
Have been upon you from things easier than my return

46. And if you say "Fill my deficiency and need"
The likes of you filled the deficiencies with supply

47. Is there no Aus among you, no Hatim for you
And they have no equal and what equal do you have

48. Are not parables struck by you in bounty
Do I not ride hopes toward you challenge

49. Or has your generosity encompassed the people of sorrow and plain
Or does your money go toward generosity prepare

50. Have you not fixed your spears wherever you wished
Or have your swords harvested whoever you wanted

51. Is there no Mudhij among you, no Azd is your Azd
Or do you have Kalb and Asad, the sons of Fahd

52. Did not Tuba's horses march to China
Or did the donkeys of Samarqand fortify its castles

53. Did he not lead Kabis prisoner to Tuba
Or tie tight his fetters, O the greatest tie!

54. Or are you not an army for the Prophet and his comrades
So blessings upon comrades, and blessings upon soldiers!

55. O Bani Da'fal, who amongst mankind can count
Your achievements, or your virtues, count!

56. And when you tied what our palms contained
You caused us to stumble without knowledge or intention

57. And you were as ones of dignity, and the dignified, if resolved
Eliminate without hatred, and save without affection

58. O Bani Da'fal, who amongst mankind can count
Your achievements, or your virtues, count!