فِدىً لَكُما رِجْلَيَّ أُمِّي وخَالَتِي

بِسَعْيِكُما بَيْنَ الصَّفا والأَثَائِبِ

My mother's and aunt's feet are a ransom for you both

For your toil between al-Safa and al-Marwah's hills

أَوَانَ سَمِعْتُ الَقْومَ خَلْفيِ كَأَنَّهُمْ

حَرِيقُ أَباءٍ في الرياحِ الثَّواقِبِ

When I heard the people behind me, it was as if

They were a blazing fire amidst the piercing winds

سُيُوفُهم تَغْشَى الجَبَانَ ونَبلُهُمْ

يُضِيُء لِدى الأَقْوام نَاَر الحُباحِبِ

Their swords overwhelm the coward and their arrows

Illuminate the tribes like the flames of embers

فَغَيْرُ قِتالي في المَضِيقِ أَغَاثَنيِ

ولَكِنَّ بَذْلِي الشَّدَّ غَيْرَ الأكِاذِبِ

But it was not my fighting in the narrow pass that saved me

Rather my utmost effort not vain boasts

حَطَطْتُ على جَنْبِي الشِّمالِ وَعَيَّعُوا

حُطُوطَ رَبَاعٍ مُحْضِر الجَرْيِ قَاربِ

I leaned on my left side and they shouted

The shouts of a poet composing near the well

نَجَوْتُ نجَاءً لا أَطُبُّكَ طِبَّه

ويَنْزو بَشِيرٌ نزْوَ أَزْعَرَ خَاضِبِ

I escaped an escape I do not praise to you

While the harbinger heralds like a squint-eyed disputant

وَجَدْتُ بعيراً هامِلاً فرَكِبْتُه

فَكاَدتْ تَكُونُ شَرَّ رَّكْبةِ رَاكِبِ

I found a burdened camel so I rode it

Nearly becoming the worst rider

أبَى وأَلاتٍ قَدْ تَحصْحَصَ ريشُهُ

يِجِيءَ بِأَوْبِ الشَّدِّ مِنْ كُلِّ جانِبِ

It refused and twisted, its feathers rustling

Coming with the difficulty from every side

كَأنَّ رَوَاُقَيْ ظُلَّةٍ غَامِدِيَّة

عَلى ماَ أَقَلَّ رأْسُه بالمناكِبِ

As if its litters were a shadowed late morning

Lowering its head to the camel litter