1. To you, O Abu Sufyan, neither promise is truthful
Nor are you a man of valor, nor are the people heroes

2. The son of Mas'ud has brought you news of Yathrib
Yet worries and sorrows do not cease among you

3. At Badr, under the banner of Muhammad
Are calamities that target lives and terrors

4. There, O son of Harb, are people who when
The wind of hatred blows are ferocious lions

5. Soldiers victorious through Ali,
Fierce in the heat of battle, brave amid horrors

6. Leave a man to spread lies fearfully
And promise him the reward of slander is not wealth

7. He hesitated, fearing you would blame a deserter
Saying there is neither a true promise nor good faith

8. Hold on to the secure pledge of Ibn Amr
And it carried him through the air angrily buzzing

9. He went on portraying the infidels with terrible detail
Saying countless hordes and detachments

10. Yet those hearts were not shaken, nor were they
Like others whose souls trembled with fear

11. Men sincere in faith, their souls overflowing with it
So neither is cowardice an escape, nor valor a killer

12. Nor is death unwanted if honor demands it
Nor life desired if humiliation is feared

13. They called out: God is enough for us, He
Does what He wills to grant victory to the guided

14. And the Truthful One sent it—a wise old she-camel—
Spewing from the mouth of the Farouq torrentially

15. Muhammad, God is the supporter of His religion
And its manifester, and the Truth is the clearest separator

16. They have an inevitable appointment and destination
Of death engulfing souls and lifetimes

17. It pains us that it becomes an oft-repeated saying
Repeated by foolish ignorant people

18. Who say “If not for fear of us, they would have advanced
While we are the fierce, attacking ones”

19. And Abu Sufyan lay, denying himself
And making himself bear witness to his fear and plotting

20. Saying “The men have come upon trouble
Oh people, wait! We are lost”

21. Oh people, we see the year is unfruitful
And the worst equipment for war is emaciation and hardship

22. So return to a prosperous, fertile year
And do not approach these chaotic people

23. The army of God advanced and their army retreated
And none remain who can be feared and equaled

24. And where are those hunted allies whose
Supporters have, in times of valor, been slaughtered

25. Evil are those allies who still fool them
With delusions like a dreamer’s hopes

26. Behold, it is rebuilt, the world given
A new design and form unlike before

27. No longer the way its ancient people wished
They are gone and it is not as it was

28. The past is buried in its evil
A ruin and relic of crumbled walls

29. Can people’s hearts remain in its darkness?
With veils and locks preserving its idols

30. It is the light, the light of God, filling His land
So generations find guidance within it

31. The emancipator of captives has come to free souls
From the fetters and shackles binding them