1. O son of Rizam, do you think you can overcome fate?
Taste calamity's sting, and you will see.

2. Be patient, captive, do not despair though you stumble,
For trials make the free man wise and patient.

3. You have lied to your people - truth has no vanquisher;
Consider this, if you are one who considers.

4. Alas, you have only misguidance to follow,
And the misguided among people lead only to ruin.

5. Evil is the prince and evil is the people who made
You their leader, that they might gain their desire.

6. The victors are the people of Islam - they see no terror
In the fray, no cowardice or withdrawal.

7. They are stalwart, clothing war in its finery
When it bares itself, and the defenders turn tail.

8. What do you hope to accomplish with raids?
You have attempted, O son of Rizam, a difficult goal.

9. You thought it an undetected raid,
Yet your secret scheming is now revealed.

10. Had not God's messenger been informed by his envoy,
He would have been informed by Him who bears all news.

11. How many impenetrable secrets has Gabriel broken open,
Exposing their hidden mysteries till they became known!

12. Over Abu Raafi let there be weeping and grief -
Hasten your own soul if you are a cautious man.

13. The Jews are humiliated - no boldness is expected of them
At the hands of one who forbade and commanded them.

14. Leave them be, captive! Calamity awaits you from a man
Who has lost his way and embarked upon delusion.

15. Do you not see God's servant with his band?
Magnify him and them, and the company around him.

16. They came to you, O son of Rizam, and had you complied,
God would have removed defilement and harm from you.

17. But you are one whom, if lightning struck,
It would not deter from the inclinations of misguidance.

18. They offered you good - a hand reached out to you
The like of which has not extended benefit or harm.

19. They said: "Come with us, if you would come,
And ask the Messenger, to attain deliverance."

20. You might have any noble rank and glory over the Jews,
And God rewards those who give thanks.

21. But he refused and was lured by a vain hope
That drew him to ride forth hastily.

22. Then he turned back, persisting in his delusions,
Deeming that a clever decision.

23. He chose a despicable, cunning, evil plot,
And the fate of the ignorant transgressor befell him.

24. He intended evil upon God's servant, and there leapt
Toward him the howl of Aad as it destroys the streams.

25. He saw him more loathsome than a wolf, so he hurried
To meet him with his sword and let loose a flowing blood.

26. His companions pounced upon those with him
Of his people, and slaughter grew hot and spread.

27. The sword did not cease taking them
Save the terrified remnants fleeing out of sight.

28. He went with the wind, uncaring that they were destroyed,
Nor heeding however God's decree came to pass.

29. Thus betrayal is met with calamity,
And how can the evildoer feel safe from evil consequence?