1. Your night has grown long with sleeplessness
While the tribesman slept, you did not rest

2. And he spent a night like the night
Of the blind man with failing sight

3. This news has come to me
I was told about Abu Al-Aswad

4. Even if the news came from another
The wound of the tongue is like the wound of the hand

5. I would have said something unseemly
That the supporter’s hand would not transmit from me

6. With what bond do they want us
Is it the blood-tie with Amr on Murthid?

7. If you bury disease we do not conceal it
And if you resurrect war we do not sit

8. If you kill us we will kill you
And if you seek blood we will seek it

9. When did we make a habit of praising
Glory, praise, honor and necklaces?

10. The lineage of dignitaries and the filling of leather skins
Fire, firewood and expensive horses?

11. I have prepared sturdy, noble steeds for war
Galloping, stamping, bringing them is like

12. The flashing of burning palm branches
Tightly girded, leaping, they appear in the sand like lightning

13. Their chests pouring forth on the warriors
Like the outpouring of clouds on the lush land

14. Charging like the torrents of heavy rain
From the clusters of the smooth palm tree

15. With obscured inscriptions, cryptic is their speech
When they strike the bone they do not bend