1. The tribe of Kanoon betrayed me in the belly of humiliation
So I repelled them with insults, scattering their dwellings

2. Its outline faded, leaving only tent ruins
With lofty sides bedecked in grandeur

3. My people deterred me from visiting you
While both our tribes ignited encompassing war

4. You would have excused my preoccupation
Had you seen people bewildered on the day of strife

5. The next dawn, Abdu Ibn Amr clashed
With the people of Tuda'a, and many were slain

6. The next dawn, Amr Ibn Amr
Attacked them with the excellent army, seeking plunder

7. But they repelled him with warriors like lions
Whose cloaks billowed, rippling like waves

8. Mediators from both sides stood up
Each seething with rage and loathing

9. Two inciters rose to command the rabble
Prolonging war and feuding endlessly

10. Houses were demolished in their lands
As they wailed over chairs, wishing they would vanish

11. They wailed over burdens and those who bore them
Unable to venture or settle anywhere

12. We drove them through the valley of Sarr
Like torrents of floodwater

13. Their women were like stampeding cattle
Crossing flowers, trampling blossoms

14. We recognized them by family ties and lineage
Every lover and protected honor we could discern

15. You saw patterns fluttering and swaying
Or a swaying, limping camel

16. When we descended into the valley, they repelled
Our warriors, so we retreated in defeat

17. Angry cries arose in the valley's midst
And the appeasers cleared a path for our retreat

18. From afar, we heard their call to arms
Swords clanging, refreshing for the embittered

19. Wherever you looked, you saw flocks
Of birds taking alarmed flight

20. When I saw the people turn and flee
I grasped neither spear nor kindling

21. I gathered up my robe train as if
I'd gathered up the train of an emaciated camel

22. As if my robe, sensing evening winds
In the night, had felt a slight chill

23. Galloping uphill on my steed Zamkharee
With muscular forelegs, rising unsteadily

24. Al-Baqmi fled for protection, departing
With grief and sorrow for the departure

25. He left us and left our allies
In the Abida valley of prolonged gloom