1. Do not satirize Yashkur, Ziyad, nor become

    a target, while you remain safely beyond harm's reach.

  2. Know that, when their true worth is weighed,

    they are better and nobler than your defenseless father.

  3. But for the chief of the sons of al-Mu‘alla, we would not have let the night pass

    before assailing you at dawn with a vast army—

  4. their men striding through the thickets as though they were

    lions of the lair, each bearing a keen, unsheathed sword.

  5. So beware, Ziyad; do not be rash and quarrelsome

    among men, nor easy prey for the treacherous.

Sol 5.6