1. For a matter in which the clouds rise
Yet the dust does not ascend to the horizon

2. And souls are not equal in the form of a body
Can the dust awaken you with a sword?

3. Greed and avarice are not the same
When dogs resemble wolves

4. I saw people like bodies rising
For their honor above necks

5. So it is not strange the ascendance of a female
Above a man whom clothes emasculate

6. And if their souls appeared to my eye
I would not discern which is the grubby

7. Indeed, the essence of things has a secret
By which the wolves have perplexed the lion

8. O the men of my people, what suns
When compared to them, the fog disperses

9. Women, except they have a soul
When it aspires, obstacles become easy

10. If she meets the sea, she would be a ship
And if she ascends the sky, she is a shooting star

11. The weak, except they have an opinion
Guided by it to the right purpose

12. And no trait except they have in it
A creative hand, its henna is dye

13. And my people are like what I and you know
They are an answer to their poet's question

14. Men, except they have faces
More deserving by their life of a veil

15. Arrogants, when they claim descent
Yet when counted, ancestry vilifies you

16. Their ancestors have glory among people
While they for their ancestors are a disgrace

17. And whoever says the crow is the son of Al-Qammari
It belies him when the crow croaks

18. Wondrous, and wonders are still manifold
That we in existence are a wonder

19. Our women have advanced, and the souls of my people
Are of those on whom is the veil

20. And nothing but the souls are the wildernesses
Whether it is feminine or the masculine wasteland