1. Your prince called for endurance
And cracked the intention of lawful companionship

2. Did you out of confusion look the next morning
To see where beauty was directed

3. You did not burden yourself with a loyal friend
Who wishes us well and is generous with gifts

4. You left the enclosures of chaste women
And refuse the pure drink of the beloved's fresh water

5. And she said why are you so standoffish
When were you known for passion and romance?

6. What do you hope for when the desire of youth
Is not for those who cough and wheeze

7. Leave me alone, my grey hair has forbidden me
And my experience, greyness and frailty

8. She saw the passing years take from me
As the crescent takes from the full moon

9. He who remains with death as his goal
And days passing with the nights

10. Imagination struck us with a vision
So praise God for that imagination

11. Your secrets fall short of our secrets
And the cheek of the well-served, swift she-camel

12. We shamed Farazdaq when we shot
Devastating arrows that cracked the pride of contest

13. For I have for the last of the poets
What I have for the first ones - forcefulness

14. Seasons while I live and after me
Seasons with Hazra or Bilal

15. On the nose of Farazdaq if they had not prevented him
Fresh from my branding, not healed

16. When Farazdaq dies, stone him
As you stone the grave of Abu Righal

17. When you were a guest in a people's land
Due to the reputation of your clan, evil and miserable

18. You were humiliated while you stayed there base
And shamed, ranked with the outcast

19. Do you forget Zubair, Saad's victim
And Jufayna when every situation turns

20. While Abu Farazdaq prayed
With the prayer of humiliation, not comfort and ease

21. Quffayra wore out the meadows
And the armor of the coats of mail

22. Mujash'a and the Banu Humais wander
Between an evil father and maternal uncle

23. Quffayra, may she be reviled for what she did for her sons
And Layla of the Qayn tribe, Qayn of the Banu Iqlal

24. She brought them Farazdaq, that mother of evil
By the donkey's trough, a clear example

25. The Caliph will disgrace you, then you will be shamed
By the might of the Bountiful and Majestic

26. Change, O Farazdaq, my people for yours, if you can
Substitute, if you have power over change

27. Then if you seek that in the morning, move
Shamma and Miqarr to the mountain valley

28. Liyarbu has virtue over the elite
As the right hand has over the left

29. And Liyarbu defends Tameem
And falls short of their exaggerations

30. And we met kings in a cavernous place
And the cliffs were dyed red from the streams

31. And we struck the son of Kabsha when we reached him
Among bushes where the streams branch out

32. Virtues you cannot attain until
You remove what is firm from the mountains

33. Take kohl and heated stones and perfume
For you, Farazdaq, are not men

34. And smell the stench of your shame, for you are not
The people of intimacy, nor battle

35. The affliction of the Banu Qabaqib was disgrace
And dishonor whenever it was mentioned

36. You clapped for the shameless cheat
So the cowardly debauchees failed miserably

37. When you met the Banu Hilal
And Ka'b and the horsemen of Hilal

38. You, Farazdaq, bubbled in fright when you panicked
Like a pig who spent the night in a smelly sheepfold

39. And 'Abs in the valley the day of 'Amr
The creeping vines of spears watered him fatally

40. And your Mufabbidh called 'Udas ibn Zaid
Who submitted to shame in the worst way

41. When you met the Banu Numayr
You met death, the darkest shadow

42. As if you were she-camels arriving at water
Ostriches of summer mixed with does

43. So send the Mujashi'i among the weaklings
The wide-nostrilled, father of evil