1. لَولا جَريرٌ لَم تَكوني قَبيلَةً

    بَجيلٌ وَلَكِن جَدَّهُ بِكِ أَصعَدا

    Were it not for Jarir, you would not have been a tribe,

    O Bajil; yet his good fortune raised you high.

  2. بِهِ جَمَعَ اللَهُ التَشَتُّتَ مِنكُمُ

    كَما جَمَعَت ريحٌ جَهاماً مُبَدَّدا

    Through him God gathered your scattered people,

    As a wind gathered scattered, rainless clouds.

  3. وَنَهنَهَ كَلباً عَنكُمُ بَعدَما سَمَت

    لِخالِدِها في يَومِ ضَنكٍ فَعَرَّدا

    And he held Kalb back from you after it advanced

    Against Bajilah's Khalid on a day of distress, and he fled.

  4. لَيالِيَ يَدعو اِبنَي نِزارٍ لِنَصرِهِ

    إِلى النَسَبِ الأَدنى إِلَيهِ فَأَيَّدا

    In the nights when he called Nizar's two sons to his aid,

    Invoking their closer kinship with him, and both gave aid.

  5. وَلَم يَدعُ مَن كانَت بَجيلَةُ قَبلَهُ

    إِلى النَسَبِ المَغمورِ لَكِن تَمَعدَدا

    Nor did he call upon those Bajilah had belonged to before him,

    Invoking that obscure lineage; instead, he claimed descent from Ma'add.

  6. أَخالِدُ لَو حافَظتُمُ وَشَكَرتُمُ

    عَرَفتُم لِعَبدِ القَيسِ عِندَكُمُ يَدا

    O Khalid, had you kept faith and shown gratitude,

    You would have acknowledged a debt of kindness to 'Abd al-Qays.

  7. هُمُ مَنَعوكُم بَعدَما قَد غَنيتُمُ

    إِماءً لِعَبدِ القَيسِ دَهراً وَأَعبُدا

    They protected you after you had lived

    For an age as slave women and male slaves of 'Abd al-Qays.