1. أعيني جواداً بدمع سرب

    على خير خندف لم ينقلب

    O my eyes, be lavish with streaming tears

    For the best of Khindif, who did not return.

  2. تداعى له رهطه غدوة

    بنو هاشم وبنو المطلب

    His kinsmen rallied against him one morning:

    The sons of Hashim and the sons of al-Muttalib.

  3. يذيقونه حد أسيافهم

    يعلونه بعد ما قد عطب

    They make him taste the edge of their swords,

    Striking him from above after he has already perished.

  4. يجرونه وعفير التراب

    على وجهه عارياً قد سلب

    They drag him, with the dust of the earth

    Upon his face, naked, already stripped.

  5. وكان لنا جبلاً راسياً

    جميل المراة كثير العشب

    And he was to us a firmly rooted mountain,

    Beautiful in appearance, abundant in grass.

  6. وأما بري فلم أعنه

    فأوتي من خير ما يحتسب

    And as for my benefactor, I did not aid him;

    So he was granted the best he hoped for.

  7. وقامت يهود بأسيافها

    قصار الجود لئام الحسب

    And the Jews rose with their swords,

    Meager in generosity, base in ancestral honor,

  8. عبيد أبي كربٍ تبعٍ

    عبيدٌ قصارٌ دقاق النسب

    Slaves of Abu Karib, Tubbaʿ,

    Slaves, short in stature, lowly in lineage.