دَعي عَنكِ تَقوالَ الضَلالِ كَفى بِنا

لِكَبشِ الوَغى في اليَومِ وَالأَمسِ ناطِحا

Leave off your words of misguidance, we have had enough

Of the ram of turmoil yesterday and today butting

فَخالِدُ أَولى بِالتَعَذُّرِ مِنكُمُ

غَداةَ عَلا نَهجاً مِنَ الأَمرِ واضِحا

Khalid is more deserving of excuse than you

The day he took a clear path in authority

مُعانا بِأَمرِ اللَهِ يُزجي إِليكُمُ

سَوانِحَ لا تَكبو لَهُ وَبَوارِحا

Suffering with what Allah decreed driving you

Appendages that do not bend for it or active limbs

نَعَوا مالِكاً بِالسَهلِ لَمّا هَبَطنَهُ

عَوابِسَ في كابي الغُبارِ كوالِحا

We bewailed Malik in the plains when it brought him down

Gloomy-faced in the stirrer up of dust fiercely blowing

فَإِن نَكُ أَثكَلناكِ سَلمى فَمالِكٌ

تَركتُم عَلَيهِ نائِحاتٍ وَنائِحا

For if we have burdened you with loss, Malik

You left over him wailing women and wailers