1. By my life, the mill of war ground on after
It had sent up sparks east and west.

2. It left the rest of the priestly house and their glory
Humiliated, after they had been victorious.

3. Salam and the son of Sufyan fell in battle
And the son of Akhtab was bound a captive to death.

4. He who had sought glory, now sought humiliation,
The opposite of what he had obtained when he sought glory.

5. Like one who abandons the flat ground and walks uphill,
Though he had been the strongest and most stubborn among men.

6. And Shammas and 'Izzal had prayed in it
And had not been absent from it when others were absent.

7. And 'Auf ibn Salma and the son of 'Awf, both of them
And Ka'b, the leader of the people - the war destroyed them.

8. So curse its ruins and similarly curse it!
If a conquest follows or if Allah follows it!