1. The lightning raged on a night of downpours
A passion beyond what seekers can demand

2. So I tasked the she-camels each day
With fire in June, burning bright

3. Melting their haughtiness even if they pray
The iron shackles would melt under its heat

4. You see the cattle prods make the riding beasts
On their fifth evening show them the whip

5. We walked by its side with a weary gait
As it crept slowly under the saddlebags

6. I sent envoys to you in succession
Yet by evening no envoy or chiding remained

7. And their calamities befell the Taym tribe
Though I warned them lest they face punishment

8. I found no excuse for the Taym people
Nor did Ibn Barzah's patience earn reward

9. Indeed, Ibn Barzah of Taym deserved
To be censured or face bitter rebuke

10. You insult me though Taym did not know
Any pact with Teym but our alliance

11. Will you praise Malik and abandon Taym
When they were the true mark to strike

12. If you count the generous, you'll find Taym
Were unique in their nobility and intellect

13. Your father was no Khandifi Bedouin
The darkness of your complexion darkened you

14. Consider the brand between Taym's lips
And the blackness of their eyes a proof

15. We recognized the shame from Saba upon Taym
And in Sanaa their disgraceful state

16. So you are humiliated despite your nobility
And among the living who ignited the flames

17. Do you not see that Zayd Manat are despised
Wretched folk we humiliate with ease

18. Will you deny the one who gives you refuge, O Taym
And who quenched your thirst with their rivers

19. Taym is nothing without my ancestors of Nazar
Nor did Taym pluck the strings of the rababah

20. Taym is naught but slaves except for Abd
Who obeyed the bridle and followed the camel dung

21. You know nothing of leadership, O Huwayzah
Except fleeing under your wrinkled cloak

22. On the day we met the Bani Rabiah army
We repelled them at Dhi Najab's battle

23. And on the day of Al-Hawazin, where was Taym?
Were you called or answered on that day?

24. Bistam loftily named them, but instead found
Lions guarding their cubs in wrath

25. Taym was nowhere on the morrow of Hunow
Nor were they among the horses when war flared

26. We were named the valiant warriors reigning them in
As the veils peeked out from behind the dunes

27. They entered the forts of Madhij in groups
Leaving not a door of Sanaa untaken

28. Mayhaps Taym's horses will bolt in panic
And the spittle of the swiftest melt in fear