1. They said, "Listen to her, she is just babbling."
In you, O father of Al-Ghaydaq, is dust and rags.

2. I turned my face away from you, not my heart.
While a man's heart turns, his face remains forward.

3. We returned on our heels to what pleases us.
We are pulled to what we don't like and limp away.

4. The loyal friends have no faults.
Except what the slanderer who finds fault says.

5. I fled to the substitutes after they left.
Oh Amr, I am destitute, who can I turn to?