1. My friend, is the morning bright
Or do the blamers tire me with their reproach?

2. Why trouble yourself with gloominess?
Like a dove flying beneath it and a young bird

3. The habits of your heart when love departed from it
Were it not that you calm it, it would nearly fly away

4. Indeed the blamers did not find as they found us
So for them from you is devotion and sighing

5. They forbid whoever passion clamped onto his heart
Until obedience to him is made clear by their hearing

6. Would that time return to us in its ease
For ease in this time is arduous

7. Oh heart, is there any consolation for you for grief has
Exhausted your patience while the noble one is patient

8. And I have been amazed by the slanderers as if
They were with hatred toward you and enmity, naked

9. And I concealed your secret in my innermost being covering it
For the concealer of his secret is worthy

10. So it watered your homes wherever you were
Clamorous, moaning for the homes, a pouring rain

11. And I remembered you in Al-Yamamah a memory
Indeed the lover always remembers whom he loves

12. And the does, the pillars of Sarh, are slender
As if they were of the emigrants, naked

13. O Bishr true for your good news is gladdening
Why don’t you get angry for us while you are the prince

14. O Bishr you have never ceased being in bounty
Bringing you gladdening news from God

15. Good news Abu Marwan though adversity
Has befallen him while alongside his ease there is affluence

16. Your right would have been to say to Barraq’s clan
“Oh clan of Barraq why was Jarir insulted?”

17. The son of the generous woman helps the generous
While the son of the ignoble one heir of the ignoble

18. Let them not enter you, their entering is
Filth, and their exiting is purity

19. Surraqah spends his evening wretched in misfortune
Distressed while your mother, O Surraqah, is insignificant

20. Surraqah, Ma’add learned I am
Foremost when the valley is hated, bold

21. Surraqah you have confronted Barraq
With a matter whose outcome upon you is disgrace

22. O clan of Barraq if an advisor came forth
To the Barraqi then he is deluded

23. Like the Samaritan the day after he led his people astray
And the calf is circled by them, bleating

24. I have built beyond you lengthening construction
And your seller, O Surraqah, is mean

25. If you knew my stalwart horsemen on the day
Of Takhfah while blood churned

26. Why not those of nobility, did you learn of our affliction
Or the day Bahr ascended an-Nisar

27. You supported the Qufayrah as they milked
Surraqah, Barraq has no choice for you

28. Indeed Farazdaq was hit by his arrow
So he bit and Tamim surrendered Khinzr

29. There used to be in Kalb what they feared his ferocity
From me and the transgressors did not meet a warner

30. Surraqah you have verily been left behind
With the dust of her camel litters swirling upon you

31. And you attached yourself in Mars who extends
His companion until a harvested date palm bends with you

32. The harvest of Barraq was the cheaper spoil
As were the two talons while beneath you are the sawed

33. By a galloping night prowler who cuts the road with agility
His claws swooping together so he can pick

34. The generous are given their dowries brought
While the women of Barraq have no dowries

35. Then let it be known the blame and humiliation are
A portion apportioned to the first of Barraq

36. And if you trace your lineage to Shanu'ah claiming
They say “the claim of Abu Surraqah is a lie”

37. I, for me Zakhir built from Khindif
Palaces for the kingdom, thrones and a couch

38. Surraqah if you put Khindif above yourself
The Euphrates would gush floods upon you

39. Surraqah you have not attained glory
While the living from Yemen are your supporters

40. Surraqah we have Iraq, Najd
And the Ghor, woe to your father when we raid

41. Did Surraqah wish to put himself above Khindif
While Abu Surraqah is scattered in the gravel