1. Why didn't you ask while you were not helpless,
And asking heals the blindness of the blind?

2. About my stance when Ghassan charged it
With steeds as white as hail or flowing water,

3. And my embrace, standing firm in the battle
Where valor was contested by the youths,

4. So I bought him with the blackest doom of death
In Ukaz, halted at the meet’s pavilion,

5. I found no ransom for him but my sword,
And so was their redemption in days gone by.

6. I am a man of dignity and noble traits,
Nature’s bounty and shunning wickedness,

7. Of a tribe with glorious chiefs,
And lions absent when fight fires flare,

8. Each bared warrior raging like
A blazing meteor when ignited in the dark.