1. If you were from the Hashimite clan or the Banu Asad
Or the servants of Shams or the people of spears and hunting

2. Or from the tribe of Nawfal or the family of Muttalib
By God, your worth! You would not threaten me

3. Or from the elite tribe endowed with glory
You would not become dejected, one with a severed neck today

4. Or from the praiseworthy Tha’laba clan of Taym
Or the green, valiant sons of Jumah

5. Or you were from the flowers of heroes who knew
Or from the progeny of Khalaf, people of glory

6. O clan of Taym, will not your fool
Be forbidden from the likes of insults

7. So forbid him, for I will not let you be
If what was shaken in the ground stirs again

8. If not for the Messenger, I would not disobey him
Until he buries me under the sands

9. The companion of the cave, I will protect him
And Talha son of Ubayd Allah the generous

10. I have cast vile, disgraceful words
That would leave the sensible people disgusted

11. But I will divert them and make them just
For you, with composed speech without threat

12. To Zubayr, for the villain has allied with him
Or the wicked from the offspring of ‘Aboud