1. As for courage, I do not blame them;
They are neither noble nor do I risk harming them.

2. A base people whose number Allah has diminished,
Like insects falling around an empty camel pen.

3. When they appeared before people, their smell
Was like that of dogs soaked by rain.

4. Descendants of Ham will never have equals
Except monkeys with shaggy hair on their shoulders.

5. They produced no worthy branches that make them remembered
Until the vitex bush produces sweet camomile.

6. Whether they excel or are shunned, flee or amass,
Or proliferate without equal.

7. Like slave women, without religion or lineage;
Had they gambled with blacks, they would have been cheated.

8. You will find the brave man does not prevent you his inviolability,
Like the Nabateans, if enslaved, they endure.