1. قِفَا نَسْألِ الحَادِي عَنِ البَانِ وَالْحِمَى

    لَعَلَّ بَشيراً أوْ عَسَى وَلَرُبَّمَا

    Halt, you two; let us ask the camel-driver about the moringa trees and the protected pasture.

    Perhaps a bearer of good tidings—or perchance, and maybe.

  2. وَلاَ تَنْسَيَا عَهْداً تقَادَمَ ذِكْرُهُ

    وَهَلْ يَذْكُرُ الإنْسَانُ مَالاً تَقَدَّمَا

    And do not forget, you two, a pledge whose memory has grown distant.

    And does a person remember wealth from long ago?