1. I blame not what has befallen me, I see the beloved bid farewell
And sleep upon their mats as they crumble and fall apart

2. When her name is mentioned his heart takes flight
At the bird of passion, and the eye flows with tears

3. She desires his love with false excuses
And the lover's needs are refused and denied

4. If she willed she could have offered him
A drink to quench his thirst and settle his unease

5. Disheveled hair upon slender twigs as if
It were a bracelet of arteries displayed and mended

6. When they raised the tent cover you would see it
Like a bird catcher in the marshlands shimmering

7. You see the people therein holding to its edges
While the wind takes one side fluttering free

8. Oh people whom no firm-planted stakes can steady
More rigid than them are withered grass and lavender

9. They lost the noble neighbor and I do not see
One held in such esteem as that neighbor tossed aside

10. The Quraysh say after the betrayal of Mujashi
May Allah disfigure the neighbors of al-Zubayr and return them

11. If the little spider had invited them when it called
Its bags would have come together completely torn apart

12. They handed over the Prophet's close companions and his family
To their tribes and then afterward boasted or blamed

13. Do you not see the house of villainy between Mujashi
Settled there until the end of time entire

14. We rose above them as stars rise above them
And it stooped until there was no escape for its palms

15. If you ask of my clan, the noble Nizar, foretell
When war takes off its veil, who shall harm and benefit

16. We suffice to guard the mountain passes, if only they thank us
The undulations of death and the spears fluttering free

17. We carry to the formidable mountain pass while you
Are a mirage upon the glowing sands fluttering weak

18. And Tanfek denies you the protection of her tribal alliance
While for you with your Kirek tribe there is only degradation