1. To Ibn Harb’s taylasan belongs a grace of long standing;

    through us my merit has become clear, and so it endures.

  2. For an age I was utterly ignorant; then I was moved to tenderness

    toward it by my fear of people, lest they act ignorantly.

  3. I keep avoiding my friends out of caution,

    as though I bore a wound that would never heal.

  4. Behold a taylasan! When glances roam over it,

    they act like arrows, contending over it.

  5. Though you are worn out, how many nations have you worn away,

    one after another—peoples your earliest days annihilated!

  6. And many a friend of mine, seeing you, has recited to me:

    “Bid Hurayra farewell—the caravan is departing.”

Sol 5.6