1. O you two who dwell in the valley of Al-Arak, I bid you farewell
With my soul and family from the one who comes at night

2. I love you both with the love of the coward for his cowardice
Though I am no coward on the day of battle

3. I delight that you give to drink early in the morning
With a bow-shaped valley and coloquinth you see wildly growing

4. Is there any way that you could make me happy for an hour?
So I may chant to a heart that went astray long ago

5. It crossed in the herd from your plain covertly
A gazelle who saw me secretly so it shot me

6. And if that herd comes one day to the same place
I will take my right from the one who hurt my beloved

7. Is there anyone pining in Iraq who yearns
For lightning flickering in Al-Udhayb in Yemen?

8. Who resents that it should live there while its flashes
Are envied by one in love with it and passionate?

9. It has control over the way to my heart
And it has harnessed the rein of fervent love to turn me

10. I have spent sleepless nights of love and felt no pleasure
That would make a jealous one rein in his steed

11. My hand refrains between it and my thoughts
While my eyes transgress beyond it and my tongue

12. I meet alone after the jealous one has doubted our matter
Innocent, with a myrtle's perfume that scents

13. I promised my companion I would wake and yet
My heart's pledge refused that I fulfill my pledge

14. So let him who blames me taste love in his heart
To know if I have power over yearning

15. I long for the land of Hijaz though among them
Is a fault-picking enemy, if he wished he could finish me

16. And I grieve over escorting them wherever they went
Like a dock-tailed bird grieving over flying

17. They removed me from obeying patience after them
My hands enticed my molars to bite my fingers

18. How could I hope to be released and while disgraced
Among the people of the tribe that I am suffering?

19. I made you both my reserve for a time of need
If you do not help, then go and leave me

20. I advised you while advice is a raging assault
Upon a suspicion - a type of madness

21. And I said beware the people's plain and their
Stabbing with short spears and teeth over there

22. Do you feel safe from their women's treachery
Even if their young men grant security?

23. How many greetings were from their stab, while exposed
To the glance of an eye or the stab of an incisor?

24. I will prevent myself on an evening that ends
At the encampment in the valley with gray hair

25. Tomorrow will come with both our sides pierced
With no arrows between us and no stabbing