لَو جمعت حمير أَقوالها

لِحَرب فهرٍ كُنتَ أَقوى لَها

If you gathered the asses, their words

If Himyar were to gather all its sayings,

For a war with rats you'd be stronger

For the war of Fihr, you would be the mightiest for it.

ما أَنصَفَتكَ العُربُ إِذ نَظَّمَت

في غَيرِ تَأبينِكَ أَقوالُها

The Arabs did not do you justice when they composed

The Arabs did not do you justice when they composed

Words other than your obituary

Their verses for anything other than your eulogy.