1. O Fatima, had you witnessed the belly of Khobt,
News would have seemed trivial to you.

2. And had you overlooked from a wing overlooking it,
When the brave one met your brother cheerfully.

3. You would have seen a lion or a lioness,
And each of them enticing their brother,

4. Each sees their brother confidently,
A brave one who met a coward.

5. He was disturbed when Muheri refrained from him,
And his ears leaned towards him in fear.

6. He almost deceived him and imagined of me,
Avoidance, so I said you have hamstrung a stallion.

7. Set my foot on the back of the earth, I
See my foot as more deserving of audacity

8. And I did not deter you at all, but
I saw the ground firmer than your back.

9. And I said to him when he brandished blades
With sheaths, clanging, producing sparks.

10. And a spear with blazing sharp edges,
Sharpened, and an angry frown,

11. Brandishing one of his forearms
Like the flexed bow removing arrows set up.

12. And he only folds his deadly fingers
To extend another to pounce on me

13. I advised you, O lion, seek another than me
For I have remaining upon you while you know best.

14. And Muheri said to you, “Do not leave me
As food, indeed my flesh was bitter.”

15. Did not what my palms did reach you
Do you not see the red claws in them?

16. Were you not a consumer of the remnants of my killing
Of Kadhema the morning after I killed Amr?

17. So when he thought advice was deceit
And boldness seduced him, so he was emboldened

18. And insisted on recklessness in my fight
And opposed me as if I had said abandonment.

19. We walked, two lions intending
Accompanying, so the sea met the sea,

20. And the ground quaked when they wronged it
With purpose, when they sought and knew it.

21. I slipped the sword to him, so I thought
That I drew from the galaxy in it a river.

22. And I did not walk misfortune to him, because
I split through it in darkness an opening.

23. And I unleashed the hanging sword in my right,
So I tied him without benevolence a captive.

24. With a drinking vessel, tumultuous, flashing
Lightning, so I removed for him ten ribs from him.

25. So he fell drenched in blood as if
I poured over him his brain as a curtain.

26. And I almost, due to the terror of his affliction, saw myself
That I destroyed with it a towering building.

27. With a decapitating strike I left him cloven
And split him open, his belly and back met.

28. And soon he bent folded in two before me
When just before he had been upright.

29. And I said to him, “It grieves me that
I see you dusty, split in two halves.”

30. “And I am shy of manliness that it sees me
Killing my peer unjustly and coercively.”

31. “But you attempted something not attempted
By a father who does not sell himself at a loss.”

32. “And none equaled me in advising you sincerely
Except you, so I could not tolerate patience, O lion.”

33. “You try to teach me escape
So did you teach yourself to flee?”

34. “And you shake your tail to weaken my resolve
By your father's life you have attempted evil.”

35. “You came desiring prey for the cubs
You sought blood and performed a journey.”

36. “But I will tie them up and protect
And seek the bride price for the daughter of Bakri.”

37. “So do not go far, you have met heat
That sees and acknowledges you have given excuse.”

38. “And from generosity you went out to a generous one
Who is cautious not to blame so be silent O heat.”

39. “And no regret over a life that
Serving you with good mention gave it life.”