1. O camel where can I escape from death
If it is my Lord's decree in the heavens

2. And a troop I clad with a troop
Fiery, courageous, whose onslaught is feared

3. Silent, their weapons bare, as though they were
A fire stoked by its violence

4. Among them the veiled, sons of the veiled, as though they were
Horses stumbling in the fray from their moaning

5. Meteors in the hands of those who grasp when they appear
With palms they dazzle the darkness with their brightness

6. Patient men, each bare swift swimmer
And excellent she-camel weakened and light of burden

7. They rush on mild-tempered she-camels, grim
Fuel complaining where they were struck and their faces

8. Bearing young men, beds spread with lances
And mountain-like when war becomes disordered

9. Of every glorious knight of might, seasoned,
When contacting thighs with both its flanks

10. And comrades who scent war, I sent them
At night and the war-bands had inclined to its aims

11. And I penetrated the gloom of darkness leading them
Until I saw the sun set its brightness

12. And met in the morning a troop
So I stabbed the first horseman I made him my target

13. And struck the tips of its two horns so it tossed about
And I launched my riding-beast into its midst and went straight through

14. Until I saw the horses, after their mass,
Red skins, dyed from their wounds,

15. Stumbling in the pools of Najib in droves
And trampling in the heat of battle its fallen

16. So I returned praised, with the head of its leader
And left them as prey for whoever desired them

17. No woman was ever denied her price in her abode
Until I paid in full her bride-price

18. And I never saw a brother denied goods in his charge
Except with me he had its like

19. I covered the girl of the camp in her tent
And when on the raid in the army I never uncovered her

20. And I turn my eyes from what of my neighbor was exposed
Until she hides from view her tent

21. I am a generous man, noble of nature
I do not follow the soul that strays

22. And if you ask Ublah about that she would inform
That I want no women but her

23. And I answer her when she calls for something great
And aid her and pardon what she did wrong