وَلَيلى حَبيب في بَغيضٍ مُجاذِبٍ

فَلا أَنتَ نائِيَهُ وَلا أَنتَ نائِلُه

And Layla, a hated lover quarrelling,

You are neither her confidant nor her attainer.

فَدَع عَنكَ لَيلى قَد تَوَّلَت بِنَفعِها

وَمِن أَينَ مَعروفٌ لِمَن أَنتَ قائِلُه

So leave Layla be, she has turned to her own benefit,

And how could kindness come from one like you?

لِآَلِ الشَريدِ إِذ اَصابوا لِقاحَنا

بِبَيضانَ وَالمَعروف يحمَدُ فاعِلُه

To the outcast family when they took our meadows

At Baydan, though kindness is praised in its doer.

تَجُرُّ بِرَوضاتٍ الاشاءَةِ أَرحُلاً

رَمَتها أَنابيشُ السَفا وَنُواصِلُه

Pulling my camels across the meadows,

Cast by the pouring rain and its joiner.

أَبَت إِبلي ماءَ الحِياضِ بِأَرضِها

وَما شَنَّها مِن جارِ سَوءٍ تُزايلُه

My camels refused the water of the ponds in their land,

And what evil neighbor provoked their separation?

لَها مَورِدٌ بِالقَريَتَينِ وَمَصدَرٌ

لِفَوتِ فَلاةٍ لا تَزالُ تَنازلُه

For them are springs in both valleys and a source

To pass the arid expanse that continues to diminish.

عَلَيهِ شَريبٌ ليِّنٌ وَادِعُ العَصا

يُساجِلُها جُمّاتِهِ وَتُساجِلُه

Upon it a soft drink, call the staff that

Quarrels with its knots and quarrels with it.