1. I asked the horsemen at Rabu'a about our severity
Did they see people at the foot of the barren valley?

2. Did they leave crying because of you there a bloodshed
Whose wounds sniff prey with greed?

3. And Al-Harith ibn Shihab in the midst of battle
As ransom, halted for the limping and the lame

4. That is how when a raid befell
It unleashed every free and enslaved servant

5. And every dishonest pillager, a soft and an easy prey
Who hides when death clashes with destinies