1. O you who break covenants, there is no complaint or regret,
Allah is the avenger and the sword takes revenge.

2. You insult the Prophet and incite the polytheists against him,
Woe to you, what sins are you committing?

3. How many corpses emerged from your mouth, abhorrent
When they were thrown back at Badr - those corpses.

4. Indeed Allah disgraced the host of that banquet,
It was harmful, there was no affection or kindness.

5. Do you think the Messenger of Allah does not know of it,
A plot which its secrets the caves exposed.

6. Rather Allah exposed what you conceal so it was uncovered,
Woe to you, which coward does not get exposed?

7. You dared to plot against the one none alive can equal,
If glory among people and nobility is distributed.

8. Woe to whoever thought Allah will forsake him,
And that he can snatch from the right hand of Allah.

9. O Ka'b and Malik, you hurt him and deny him,
Why this obsession with lies and passion?

10. You made Malik a source of corruption for the rabbis,
Wherein harm is accessible and can be drawn anytime.

11. He rejected the truth when you came to ask him,
And they declared the certainty of the matter they knew.

12. So you said "return, I have no ties to you",
The spring ran dry, neither purpose nor excess.

13. My rights are enough, I do not transgress them
To superfluities, nor am I inclined to that.

14. They returned saying "how stern is this man!
He does not accept words except if they are crooked".

15. Then they inclined and spoke lies so they turned
With money you pour forth, from which the honorable recoil.

16. Evil is the gift and evil are those people,
And the affair of their master in misguidance brought together.

17. They are the Jews, if money was made lawful to them
In the eyes of Moses, the one who spoke to Allah, they would not have recoiled.

18. The son of Maslama rose for the truth to support it
And for the Messenger to show him the way to storm.

19. So he said "Consult Sa'd about her if you intend to",
How excellent the advisor, the intelligent and perspicacious!

20. He judged for three days with much reflection,
And for the experienced, the prudent, what he describes!

21. And he came in his company asking permission
Of the Godfearing, they did not sway or deviate.

22. The Messenger said "you have your goal with the people,
What is the pearl to what makes one think it is nacre?"

23. They are the hearts, so if their secrets are pure,
There is no fault in your words, no blemish.

24. They left and said to Ka'b "You are our refuge,
You are the protected hope in origin and all shelter".

25. "Do you not see us starving, with no food for us,
To the point that demise has almost overcome our people?"

26. "Our companion did not leave anything we can live by,
The provisions ransacked and the money seized."

27. "If you loan us what we can regain by
The spirit of life, it will be a saving downpour."

28. The cunning one said "with collateral but no food for you
Except through them". So they said "a demand cast off!"

29. "Our brides have refused us and forbidden us
This beauty you were granted and luxury."

30. He said "the boys", so they said "do not be difficult!
Misery is easier than what you sought and dignity."

31. "Take up arms even if you task us beyond limit,
Hardships through it become easy burdens."

32. He did not know their goal as they ridiculed him
And as they wished it an obscure plot.

33. He said "I accept". They said "a gloom has departed
From us, its darkness dispersed and the breastplate opened."

34. And they put him off until the time of his arrival,
When the deadly poison will drink and infiltrate.

35. They came to him at night, delighted at his room,
And the cloak of the chamber cannot save the youth from his demise.

36. And the voice of his brother rang at his resting place:
"Come out to us! Do you not cease to be cloistered?"

37. So he sprang up running while his wife shuddered:
"Wait! My heart is fearful and trembling."

38. "You are a warrior, unsuited to respond
To the possessors of grudges if they come harassing."

39. "I hear a voice I do not feel safe from,
As if it is blood flowing or it is the paddle."

40. He said "be silent and let me go, it is my brother,
Fearing for me, so he protects me and turns to me."

41. And he went to meet him while Islam was smiling
And polytheism frowning, trembling.

42. He met him in his company, taking slow steps gently,
As if she is a swaying branch adorned by the pendant.

43. They said "will you walk to the cliff of the old woman? For in
This solitude a gain for the soul to be seized."

44. "And look at the shining moon and its splendor,
And wonder at it after this - how can it eclipse?"

45. They walked to the cliff and destinies pursued them,
Upon Allah's guidance, neither deviating nor transgressing.

46. Until when they sat, it remained in its position,
And death approached from its right, waiting.

47. And that is his brother's palm above his temple,
As if it is plucking a blossom from the garden.

48. He smells it and it deceives him with words
About the perfume while in truth behind him is the goal.

49. The swords of Allah's Messenger remained striking him,
Cleaving what they struck of him and harvesting.

50. O excellent is that scream he sends out from his mouth,
It almost tore down from his house the ceiling.

51. His bride could not be patient so she answered him,
A voice raging as if the master builder collapsed.

52. "O children of Qurayza, arise from your beds!
O children of Nadir, rally for revenge and approach!"

53. The men charged at Ka'b so O whatdifference after his death
Except crying and except copious tears?

54. The one who would bend his shoulder arrogantly
Has fallen dead, so neither pride nor arrogance.

55. They returned with his scalp, thrown repulsively
Before the Messenger, from him only aversion and refusal.

56. The Jews fled their traces but they could not
Be reached, resolves that cast them into the winds.

57. Allah is Great and praise in abundance belongs to Him,
A new victory and grace from Him renewed.

58. The meek Jews returned seeking a pact,
"Return O Jews, excellent is the covenant and pact."

59. Far from you O Malik any covenant, even if
The plain of Bisya were filled with your scriptures!

60. Servants of Allah, say that in poetry is a reminder,
And the best of it is what the predecessors passed down.

61. Sing, O friends, the revelation of truth I recite to you,
The dispraiser has passed away and the senile poet perished.