إِذا كُنتَ مَلهوفاً أَصابَتكَ نَكبَةٌ
فَنادِ وَلا تَعدِل بِآلِ ذِراعِ
If you are distressed, struck by a calamity,
then call out, and set none equal to the house of Dhiraʿ.
سِراعٌ إِلى المُعروفِ وَالخَيرِ وَالنَدى
وَلَيسوا إِلى داعي الخَنا بِسِراعِ
They are swift toward kindness, goodness, and generosity,
and they are not swift toward the caller to baseness.
كَسَوتُ قَتودَ الرَحلِ مِن بَعدِ ناقَتي
بِأَحمَرَ مَحبوكِ الضُلوعِ رَباعِ
I clothed the saddle’s wooden supports, after my she-camel,
with a red, firm-ribbed, four-toothed camel.
فَما حَسَبٌ مِن نَهشَلٍ تَشهَدونَهُ
إِذا صارَ في أَيديهِمُ بِمُضاعِ
Thus no ancestral honor of Nahshal that you witness
is squandered once it comes into their hands.
Sol 6.1