1. Oh Abila of the winding roads
Like henna patterns on the palm of the gift giver

2. Or scrolls of bygone days from Chosroes' reign
That he gifted to the stammering foreigner

3. Are you now safe from calamities on the day
The Bani Jurhum tribe wars with Bani Adwan?

4. When they are roused, you hear the muffled sounds amongst them
Not the voice of the watchman up high

5. Nor the windows whence emerge from them
Stabs like the blades of the mattock.

6. And Thu'al ibn Amr has betrayed them
Both their Suleimani and their Jerwali