لَخُطّابُ لَيلى بالَ بُرثُنَ مِنكُمُ

لَخُطّابُ لَيلى بالَ بُرثُنَ مِنكُمُ

أَذَلُّ وَأَمضى مِن سُلَيكَ المَقانِبِ

أَذَلُّ وَأَمضى مِن سُلَيكَ المَقانِبِ

Surely Layla’s suitors among you—[the wording “bāla Burthun” is unclear]—

The talk of Layla has no whisper from you all

are more abject and more resolute than Sulayk of the raiding bands.

More humiliated and blunt than your broken spears