1. In the early dawn, I recalled the ruins of Brammah
Whose inhabitants bore adversities as fate

2. The valleys and meadows have fled
Leaving open fields for the wind and its expanse

3. I have not found a dwelling like yours after your loss
And you were irrigated by the rain gushing forth

4. After all your people, you became a mound of ruins
Once a populated settlement, now desolate and bare

5. I am amazed how the abodes and their people change
And how time alters one thing into another

6. I saw the she-camel of youth had shortened her stride
After vigour and the toil of travel

7. The resolve of the virtuous on the day of Burqah
Had become diseased, so ignorance increased

8. My heart quivered remembering them after they passed
While the wings of the stars in the night faded

9. They made the defence of our days a few years
And made the lifespan of goats in the left-hand

10. They never unite when they boast of victory
And enjoy the embellishment of prosperity and beauty

11. The specter crept furtively to Umm Hazrah
And embraced the slender ghost closely

12. I wonder on the day of exhorting Sulsal
Whether you wanted my ruin or my guidance

13. If the chastity of Uyaynah and Yathbul had heard
Your talk, it would have collapsed the mountain tops

14. You greeted in the morning those with no friend
When the young she-camels neigh and the cattle bellow

15. Some miscarried at six months
And others lost their slippers as they walked

16. When daylight is short and its shadows contract
And the tired she-camel is listless and languid

17. The she-camel raises the hem of each emaciated man
Whose shirt tails sway as he struts proudly

18. I am destined so I will never pardon the oppressors
And will be a punishment and vengeance upon the wrongdoers

19. Cursed is Tughlib in the sight of God
They have become despicable to me, both horses and men

20. Cursed is Tughlib whenever pilgrims shout and say:
"God is great", performing their rights

21. They worshipped the cross and denied Muhammad
And rejected Gabriel and Michael as well

22. When the Tughlibi sniffs, mocking settlements
He itches his beard and spouts proverbs

23. Did you forget your day at the island, after
Its consequences were calamitous upon you

24. The cavalry of Qais attacked you
Disheveled and frowning, bearing warriors

25. You still think, after them, every group is an army
Marching against you with men and horses

26. The roar of the chief Abul Huthayl destroyed you
He captured the women and seized the wealth

27. When Ukhaydir saw their standards, he said
"O disgraceful Sergius, we want no fighting!"

28. Why not ask the shallows of the Tigris about you
Where corpses are collected, part by part

29. Ukhaydir left his mother as if she was
A camel for hire, directing customers

30. Ukhaydir hoped foolishly
For what would never be, an impossible dream

31. "Make way, for you have seen our destruction
Repelling destruction, writhing in anguish"

32. "It is over, Ukhaydir, so prepare yourself"
I said, and Ukhaydir was shamed into silence

33. If the walls of Kindah had collided
With an impenetrable mountain, it would be leveled

34. For the rhyme's bitterness is commanded
For Bani Fudawks when their reason was severed

35. You met a group of Khuzaimah below me
Whose towering heights humbled you

36. Khuzaimah rode out on steeds as if they were
Tame hawks alighting softly on the dunes

37. That is how we prepare for the likes of that
Fed milk and donning ornate saddle-cloths

38. You did not meet horsemen of mine in battle
Inclining to you, or even glancing your way

39. They bid farewell to the women of Tughlib and captured them
And Huthayl saw their white thighs

40. Qais and Kindah, if you count their deeds
Are better and nobler than those of your father

41. If they forbid you, you will be forbidden to enemies
Or if they permit you, you will be eaten lawfully

42. Do you own any place in the sanctuary
Or descend in the shade from a hillock?

43. For we are nobler in abode and higher in the sky
With mountains taller than yours

44. We guided Khuzaimah, as you know by force
And Huthayl wrung his hands in shackles

45. Husainah saw my horsemen grasp
The spoils and divide the booty

46. If the clans of Tughlib gathered their allies
On the day of rivalry, they would not equal an atom

47. Do not seek in-laws from Tughlib
For even Africans are nobler in-laws than them

48. You cast at our valley-orchard the stones of Nasil
Seeking strife, so you found strife

49. If not for the penalty, the black lands and Tughlib
Would be spoils for the Muslims