1. For whom has the house been left desolate of tents,
Except for traces of encampments like shadows?

2. That house of thousands has become empty,
After it used to fill with activity.

3. Its house, when it says what is wrong with Ibn 'Amr,
He took refuge in it after his nearness on the shore.

4. Tell her that I am the best guardian,
For the one who carried without excess.

5. I witnessed many vain entertainments there, O mother of 'Amr,
Among white delicate maidens in the meadows,

6. With the chosen ones with white faces like moons,
They were awakened after the throes of death.

7. As if it were the blood of an emancipated slave,
Freed from the slavery of the Nabataeans.

8. They contained a young man who humiliates wealth for it,
And the confidante of pious Ibn Hilat.

9. His singing slave-girls were around me,
Like red ostriches and wild cows.

10. They passed around the cup among honorable drinking companions,
They prepared the wedding of pious Al-Anmat.

11. For a while, then he said, "Far be it from you,
Anything but an honorable gathering."

12. I have endured many rips from the playfulness of jinn,
The severe iron of my sword is with me.

13. Above the stopping place of the friendly
Like a bracket of a forest and a seamstress.

14. While we were warming ourselves from the cold,
We were alarmed by the sound of someone yelling.

15. So we were brought a swift steed,
Who was not weakened by fodder and ties.

16. Without wiping or scratching hay and horse blankets,
And saddlebags in winter and carpets.

17. So they called him, restrained him, and said
To a boy repeating mistakes,

18. "Calm him down and stop him for me from the west,
You will find him with little stumbling."

19. So the boy went to castrate a stallion,
Closing off the west, preventing whips.

20. And they turned away when they saw a figure
With his body like the body of a sword.

21. Above it was a feeder of wild animals, a friend
Who knows the ways of cheetahs and lynxes,

22. Hunting with a crossbow, shooting from afar
In the wilderness and on a flat plain.

23. Then he turned away with tolerance and deliberation,
Restraining him with reins.

24. Then we left and my friend does not fear
Betrayal from my tongue spreading.