1. Alas, Asma had tied up the camels
So he was determined to set off traveling

2. And Zatul Irdh can come when she wants
To change her beautiful clothes

3. The scandal-mongers attacked her
From the state she had always been in

4. And whoever does not prevent the slanderers
Morning and evening they seek to discredit him

5. So ask those who desire her and be aloof from her
With a girlfriend as if she were a specter

6. Secure from tiring or complaining
When you have faced her one day in the moonlight

7. As if the camel litter were above a valley
Turning the howdah this way and that

8. Of those accustomed to the south wind of Iyr
As if their sandals were made of ebony

9. His brow remains exposed to Sumar
As if its eagles were armed with spearheads

10. Slender is her imagination if
Brought face to face with her necklaces

11. So if you meet, inform the messenger there
Abu Mamlouh—truly he possesses glory—

12. A mood old behind you a ruin though
You have not yet tasted our enmity and affliction

13. Nor have you done anything but threaten
Your threats against them are enough for battle

14. A threat that shakes the womb
And moves mountains from their places

15. Light rain is pleasing to whoever sees it
His imagination though no drops have fallen