1. يا صَخْرُ لا تُسْلِمَنْ يوماً فتفضَحَنا

    بعد الذين بِبَدْرٍ أصبَحُوا فِرَقا

    O Sakhr, never embrace Islam and so disgrace us,

    After those who at Badr were scattered:

  2. خَالي وعَمّي وعَمُّ الأمّ ثالِثُهُمْ

    وحَنْظَلُ الخيرِ قد أهدى لي الأَرَقَا

    My maternal uncle, my paternal uncle, and my mother's paternal uncle, the third of them.

    And Hanzal the good has indeed gifted me sleeplessness.

  3. لا تَرْكَنَنَّ إلى أَمْرٍ تُكَلّفُنا

    والراقصاتِ به في مكّةَ الخُرُقا

    Never incline toward a course in which you would burden us—

    by the trotting she-camels in Mecca!—with folly.

  4. فالموتُ أهونُ من قَولِ العداةِ لَقَدْ

    حَادَ ابنُ حَرْبٍ عن العُزّى إذاً فَرَقا

    For death is easier than the enemies' saying, 'Indeed,

    Ibn Harb has thus turned away from al-‘Uzza out of fear.'