1. لُجَيمُ بنُ صَعبٍ لَم تَنَلها عَداوَتي

    وَما نَبَحَت آلَ الخَصيبِ كِلابي

    My enmity has not touched Lujaym son of Saʿb,

    nor have my dogs barked at the family of al-Khaṣīb.

  2. أولَئِكَ قَومٌ يَرفَعونَ مَحَلَّهُم

    إِلى نَجَواتٍ أَشرَفَت وَرَوابي

    Those are a people who raise their station

    to soaring heights and hilltops.

  3. وَلَكِنَّما هاجَ الَّذي كانَ بَينَنا

    سَدوسٌ وَما عيدانُها بِصِلابِ

    But what lay between us was stirred up only

    by Sadūs, whose timber is not sturdy:

  4. بَنو كُلِّ مِتفالٍ كَأَنَّ جَبينَها

    إِذا زَحَلَت عَنهُ جَبينُ غُرابِ

    sons of every foul-smelling woman, whose brow looks,

    when she draws [her veil] back from it, like a raven’s brow.