1. I see every day as time passes
Reproach in distance and in nearness

2. It wants my humiliation and makes me anxious
With the army of misfortunes when it sees me

3. As if I had grown old and my hair turned white
And my patience weakened and my resolve faded

4. Oh fate, my day is like my yesterday
And I am most revered by those who know me

5. And the distressed whose hardship I removed
With a stroke of my swift sword when he called me

6. He called me in a call and the horses bolted
So I did not know if he called me or Kanani

7. So I did not restrain my hearing when he called me
But my tongue made clear to him

8. So I scattered the processions away from him by force
With a stab faster than Yemeni lightning

9. And I only answered him with my sword
And my spear amidst the fray as ransom

10. And my answering him was that
I turned the obedient steed toward him

11. With a dark spear of soft iron from Hadan
And a white sharp sword of Yemeni make

12. And a spear which I left in the hands of Makir
Upon it purple straps like crimson

13. I left the birds hovering over it
As the entertained swoop down to the courtyard

14. And the life of hands and feet that run
Prevent them from eating it

15. So the pillars of war did not weaken me
But the passage of time

16. And I never came near the specter of death
Except as the brave approaches the coward

17. And the tribe of Abs knew that I
Charge when called to thrust

18. And that death is submissive to my hand when
My fingers reach the Indian sword

19. And excellent are the horsemen of my ferocious people
When they hang the swords from the waistbands

20. They killed Liqit and Ibn Hujr
And they felled Hajib and the two sons of Aban