جاءَني مِن لَدَيه مَروانُ إذ قَف

جاءَني مِن لَدَيه مَروانُ إذ قَف

فيتُ عَنهُ بِخير ما أَحذاني

فيتُ عَنهُ بِخير ما أَحذاني

Marwān came to me from his presence, when I turned

Marwan came to me when he stopped,

away from him, bearing the finest gift he had given me:

So I bid him goodbye with the best advice.

بِإِفَالٍ عشرينَ قَحَّمَهَا الصَّع

بِإِفَالٍ عشرينَ قَحَّمَهَا الصَّع

ب بِحُسنِ الإِخاء والخلاَّنِ

ب بِحُسنِ الإِخاء والخلاَّنِ

twenty young camels, driven forward by the unyielding

With twenty camels whose humps were chopped off by hardship,

one, through the kindness of brotherhood and close friends;

Out of goodwill and friendship.

لا صَفَايَا دُهم فأسَمَها الرِّس

لا صَفَايَا دُهم فأسَمَها الرِّس

لُ ولا جِلَّة قَطيعٍ هِجَان

لُ ولا جِلَّة قَطيعٍ هِجَان

not choice black milkers, marked [reading uncertain] by the

Neither gray camels, so he called them peppered,

milk, nor mature camels from a purebred white herd.

Nor a flock of sheep bleating.