1. Watering the urge of a dove and its mate
With the plucking of a lute of raining clouds

2. Watering those abodes which excited me
As if the rest of them were a revelation of psalms

3. How often I've seen yet nothing remains
Of a visitor of the passion's allure and pilgrimage

4. Don't be prideful though in the skin of submission
There is dream yet its fetters aren't fetters

5. My sons, we didn't find for al-Mujashi'
A dream that equals the feather of a sparrow

6. We know what tomorrow is for al-Mujashi'
A pledge and what they owned and a captive's shackle

7. What did you hope for from powerlessness after
Your ropes were cut and bitterness persevered

8. Indeed, al-Farazdaq when he enters a mosque
Is filth so his purification isn't purity

9. Indeed, al-Farazdaq does not care for sacredness
And the blood of sacrifice with cubits and throats

10. The folks of al-Farazdaq are Christians of Taghlib
Or he falsely claims the lies of a cheating monk

11. Make pilgrimage to the cross and offer your sacrifices
And take your share from the pig

12. I will tell about the affliction of al-Mujashi'
Who was inexperienced with stratagems

13. The shame of Banu Waqban, the mutilator of their remnants
And their neighbor was deceived by a rope of delusion

14. Al-Zubayr said and al-Mujashi' submitted it
No good in the filth of clothes, cheating

15. Oh youth, Quraysh mentioned your betrayal
Between the ritual shaving of Mina and al-Thabir

16. And al-Farazdaq left Minqar in an unhealthy state
Without well-being or happiness

17. Al-Farazdaq was disgraced after the incident of Sabi'a
Like a fortress from the progeny of the most vicious male

18. Hunayda brought disgrace to al-Mujashi'
When she blamed them with the worst of curses

19. Your lute rode a contemptible camel
In the market, exposing the most shameful rider and camel

20. And Ghazma called al-Mujashi' with coquetry
So you were found, O Banu Waqban, without jealousy

21. Al-Farazdaq lied, he will not compete with 'Amir
The day of the wager with a confused gambler

22. For al-Farazdaq to criticize horsemen
Who carried his father on a refractory mule

23. You were ignorant in insulting Qays after
They took the feathers of your broken wing

24. Qays, your father was among their disgraces
The pimp of every rabble horde

25. You will not catch up to Ghatfan even if you spur
O son of prostitutes, nor the clan of Mansur

26. So they attacked you with every ancient, learned sword
So boast of the owner of two bitch-whelps and a sphere

27. How many they sired with a Caliph and a Caliph
And the prince of two summer raids and the son of a prince

28. The noble ones were born among them in Quraysh
O Lord of an honored, good birth

29. With the day of renowned virtues made known
A day which blinded a renowned, bleary-eyed camel

30. The steeds of Qays spend nights on the frontiers
And spend nights with the owners of taverns

31. Do you remember your affliction the day of Safa
Or do you remember the horsemen of the commanded?

32. Or Dukhtanus the morning after their skulls were cut
And she called with the supplication of humiliation and destruction

33. Al-Qayun betrayed and advanced the day of Safa
Thus corrupting the worst corruption

34. And Laqit slandered ‘Amir that day
So they made him descend with cursed ruin