وَلَقَد رَأَيتُكِ في النِساءِ فَسُؤتِني

وَأَبا بَنيكِ فَساءَني في المَجلِسِ

I saw you among the women, so you vexed me

And your refusal, my son, pained me in the assembly

إِنَّ الذَليلَ لَمَن تَزورُ رِكابُهُ

رَهطَ اِبنِ جَحشٍ في مَضيقِ المَحبَسِ

The humiliated are those whose abodes you visit

The clan of Ibn Jachsh confined in prison

لا يَصبِرونَ وَلا تَزالُ نِسائُهُم

تَشكو الهَوانَ إِلى البَئيسِ الأَبأَسِ

They cannot endure while their women

Still complain of disgrace to the feeble enemy

رَهطُ اِبنِ جَحشٍ في الخُطوبِ أَذِلَّةٌ

دُسمُ الثِيابِ قَناتُهُم لَم تُضرَسِ

The clan of Ibn Jachsh in misfortunes are subdued

Their clothes reek yet their noses remain upturned

بِالهَمزِ مِن طولِ الثِقافِ وَجارُهُم

يُعطي الظُلامَةَ في الخُطوبِ الحُوَّسِ

With sneering from the length of their slavery, their neighbor

Gives darkness in disasters, a guarded gloom

قَبَحَ الإِلَهُ قَبيلَةً لَم يَمنَعوا

يَومَ المُجَيمِرِ جارَهُم مِن فَقعَسِ

Cursed by God is the tribe who did not prevent

On the day of Mujaimir their neighbor from weakness

تَرَكوا النِساءَ مَعَ الجِيادِ لِمَعشَرٍ

شُمسِ العَداوَةِ في الحُروبِ الشُوَّسِ

They left the women with the steeds for a people

The sun of enmity in fierce, unceasing wars

أَبلِغ بَني عَبسٍ بِأَنَّ نِجارَهُم

لُؤمٌ وَأَنَّ أَباهُمُ كَالهِجرِسِ

Inform the Bani Abs that their carpenter

Is vile and that their father is like a mighty, bellowing bull

يُعطي الخَسيسَةَ راغِماً مَن رامَها

بِالضَيمِ بَعدَ تَكَلُّحٍ وَتَعَبُّسِ

Who yields the despised one defiantly when he desires her

With injustice after dryness and frowning