1. She arose from every valley that met,
So beware of her, O sons of divorce!

2. Beware of her, a venomous raid,
He who fears her horrors is protected.

3. Do not think your gathering is equal to her,
When she marches in dense darkness.

4. Release the army and restrain them, she is
The death of the army and the rout of the regiment.

5. Al-Harith neighs calling you to
Destroy yourselves; would that he had not neighed!

6. Let not a messenger who came to you delude you,
Whose heart hates but whose speech loves.

7. O messenger of truth, what did they gather
For the valiant and people of integrity?

8. The vanguards expand the ways for them
To death in the narrow passage.

9. Victory flutters over their banners
If every defeated army turns away.

10. They do not care about unknown death whether
In a thunderous horror or a shining one.

11. For Abu Bakr and Sa'd, a glance
After another like burning torches.

12. In the two banners, a radiance from them
Bright rising, free glow.

13. And over Al-Farouq from his faith
What is over his sword from elegance.

14. And Ali and the son of Ammar, they are
The means of war for the horror of distress.

15. The supreme leader attacks with them
In a sea where death drowns.

16. In it every roar of strength boiled
Climbing from its depths whatever climbs.

17. The best of Allah's creation in his sheath
Riding the best steed of precedent.

18. The people are bewitched, and of his signs
Is the counter spell of sorcery and good omens.

19. The Quran was revealed to him so the scroll
Of ink and the scripture of soothsaying folded.

20. He comprehended all books and understood
Every refined meaning from reciting them.

21. He taught the world guidance in the past
And he is the best guide in what remains.

22. An Arab whose verses opened
Every door to meanings locked shut.

23. In styles of excellent, maidenly diction
And free, untouched arts.

24. Wafts of truth in the finest adornment
From the winds of radiant rhetoric.

25. Al-Farouq calls them to
The religion of good, the plea of the concerned.

26. But the people refused and said our religion,
If we leave it for other than it, we sin.

27. And their spy walked seeking harm
So his demon walked on the horizon.

28. It was said, submit, he said no, so
His soul incurred the sin of the foolish deceiver.

29. O Abu Bara'a, goodness is not that
You take charge, so be steadfast and take precautions.

30. Is one who frees people's selves from the slavery of passion
Like one who did not free them?

31. O Abu Bara'a, do not refuse guidance
And those around you, so show mercy and be gentle.

32. You said war and its killings while it
Is not the most beloved or moral affair.

33. And the arrows continued to swoop toward him
Above a swoop from an awakened, burning valley.

34. When Allah said in His sublime verses
To the Messenger of Allah, aim straight and shoot!

35. Leaders they did not meet equals
And soldiers the like of whom were not created.

36. The group was frightened, so had the eagle
Flown in their tracks, it would not have caught up.

37. It warded off thirst for loftiness even if it twisted
Every pliant one in the resting places.

38. They were aggrieved by the plunder and captives together
And made to drink the worst drink of the rebel.

39. Barra'a, what do you complain of
From sorrow, escape, and disturbing anxiety?

40. O daughter of Al-Harith, be at ease and enjoy,
What lawful provision were you not granted?

41. That is the climate of glory and brilliant fame,
Circle in it as you wish.

42. Allah chose you among those He chooses
And selected your house from what He selects.

43. And the adorned crown contained a pearl
From you, he who glimpses its radiance bows down.

44. So leave the captivity of Ibn Qays
And thank, O daughter of Al-Harith, the grace of the Releaser.

45. The pure essence of the messengers of guidance
Since they were, and the core, the devoted.

46. He removed the shackle innocently from you
And lamented for you a severe, exhausting harm.

47. And He observed your right, desiring only
That you be in the most fitting place.

48. Al-Harith came driving his camels
While long anxiety was in him.

49. The chief of the people intending his daughter
And aiming to ward off the disputes about her.

50. He said woe to me! How can Barra'a be taken
While her father wears his clothes?

51. A free woman from a free man who begot her
And raised her, biting from his biting.

52. My camels walk and my mother to Yathrib
And seek for me the lion of calamity in his thicket.

53. My honor refused him and my daughter
I will redeem from him and his companions.

54. He did not drive her but two camels, they
Were the finest of my money or she-camels.

55. Lost in the side of the valley, and nothing
Brings about the matter but its reasons.

56. He said leave her, may God protect you for me
And heal this heart from its wounds.

57. She is my daughter I raised
In the sanctuary of honor and its sanctuary.

58. Give her to me and accept what is with me
Of abundant ransom, lofty over its peers.

59. He said but you have done a thing you did not fear
The evil of what overcomes the young man from its disgrace.

60. What you retained for yourself in the valley
And its plants escaped your defense.

61. O Abu Bara'a I see
The place of the two camels in its sloping side.

62. He said I submitted, and how slight is guidance
O Messenger of Allah from its seekers!

63. The truth is clear so there is no argument
For the foolish hearted or doubting.

64. It belongs to Allah, a grace, none has
Other than He who prefers from His loved ones.

65. Polytheism recoiled on its heels
And the performer fell from its pillars.

66. O Messenger of Allah, if a man
Did not have your religion from his morals!

67. Nobility of character from its rulings
And piety and righteousness from its morals.

68. You are an excellent in-law in glory and fame
If we seek glory in its poles.

69. You came with good news, you did not cease
To cleave barriers from its doors.

70. That daughter of mine entered with me therein
What we feared prevention from its chamberlains.