1. Ask the tribe of Bani Ash'ar, if you come upon them,
What was the news of my father Waasil?

2. When they left him calling out to them
With the closest kinship and shared faith,

3. Yet the lion was tearing him with its fangs
Bellowing amid gushing blood,

4. But the Merciful did not raise up their fallen,
Nor weaken the strength of the wrestler.