1. بَيِّن إِذا نَزَلَت عَلَيكَ مُجاشِعٌ

    أَو نَهشَلٌ تِلعاتُكُم ما تَصنَعُ

    Make clear, when Mujāshiʿ descends upon you,

    or Nahshal into your upland valleys, what you will do,

  2. في جَحفَلٍ لَجِبٍ كَأَنَّ زُهاءَهُ

    شَرقِيُّ رُكنِ عَمايَتَينِ الأَرفَعُ

    in a vast, clamorous army whose mass seems like

    the eastern flank of ʿAmāyatayn's loftiest peak.

  3. وَإِذا طُهَيَّةُ مِن وَرائي أَصبَحَت

    أَجَمُ الرِماحِ عَلَيهِمُ يَتَزَعزَعُ

    And when Ṭuhayya comes to stand behind me,

    the thickets of spears above them sway.

  4. حَوضي بَنو عُدُسٍ عَلى مَسقاتُهِ

    وَبَنو شَرافَ مِنَ المَكارِمِ مُترَعُ

    My pool, with the sons of ʿUdus at its watering-place

    and the sons of Sharāf, is brimful of noble deeds.

  5. إِن كانَ قَد أَعياكَ نَقضُ قَصائِدي

    فَاِنظُر جَريرُ إِذا تَلاقى المَجمَعُ

    If refuting my poems has already defeated you,

    then look, Jarīr, when the assembly meets

  6. وَتَهادَروا بِشَقاشِقٍ أَعناقُها

    غُلبُ الرِقابِ قُرومُها لا توزَعُ

    and they bellow at one another with throat-sacs, their necks

    thick and stout, their mighty camel bulls unrestrained.

  7. هَل تَأتِيَنَّ بِمِثلِ قَومِكَ دارِماً

    قَوماً زُرارَةُ مِنهُمُ وَالأَقرَعُ

    Will you indeed face Dārim with the likes of your people—

    a people with Zurāra and al-Aqraʿ among them,

  8. وَعُطارِدٌ وَأَبوهُ مِنهُم حاجِبٌ

    وَالشَيخُ ناجِيَةُ الخِضَمُّ المِصقَعُ

    and ʿUṭārid, and his father Ḥājib among them,

    and the elder Nājiya, munificent and eloquent,

  9. وَرَئيسُ يَومِ نَطاعِ صَعصَعَةُ الَّذي

    حيناً يَضُرُّ وَكانَ حيناً يَنفَعُ

    and the leader on the day of Naṭāʿ, Ṣaʿṣaʿa, who

    sometimes dealt harm, and sometimes brought benefit?

  10. وَاِسأَل بِنا وَبِكُم إِذا وَرَدَت مِنىً

    أَطرافُ كُلِّ قَبيلَةٍ مَن يَسمَعُ

    And ask about us and about you, when there come to Minā

    the leading men of every tribe, those who hear

  11. صَوتي وَصَوتَكَ يُخبِروكَ مَنِ الَّذي

    عَن كُلِّ مَكرُمَةٍ لِخِندِفَ يَدفَعُ

    my voice and yours: they will tell you who it is

    who defends every noble distinction for Khindif.

  12. وَإِذا أَخَذتَ بِقاصِعائِكَ لَم تَجِد

    أَحَداً يُعينُكَ غَيرَ مَن يَتَقَصَّعُ

    And when you take to your jerboa-burrow, you will not find

    anyone to help you but another who retreats into a burrow.