1. Ask the tall spears about our glories
And question the swords, did hope in us disappoint?

2. And ask the Arabs and Turks what our hands did
In the land of Al-Ubayd's grave, they will tell you.

3. When we strove, our resolves did not weaken
From what we aspire, nor did our efforts fail.

4. O day of the battle of Zuwarra in Iraq when
Our enemies submitted to us as they made us submit before.

5. With unsheathed swords we girded,
Only to raid those who raided us by night.

6. Youths who if we spoke lowered their ears
To hear us or if called, responded immediately.

7. A people, if challenged, become furious lions
And if judged, they are just scales.

8. They armored themselves with reason a coat
But if the fire of turmoil blazed, it made them insane.

9. If they claimed, the world came testifying
And if prayed, the days said "Amen."

10. Verily the chicks, when their protector rose
Thought they had become our equals.

11. They fancied stopping the gallantry of the graying heroes
Unaware it was but our appeasement.

12. Citadels the hands of archers took
When had we left them, they would have taken our keeps.

13. They were subdued by our swords for ages but when
They took power, they revealed their hatred of us.

14. Their wealth did not prevent them from pillaging our souls
As if they had immunity from our prosecution.

15. They emptied the mosques of our elders and sought
Until we revolted and vacated their bureaus.

16. Then we withdrew with our swords still
Gleaming strangely and our spears shaking.

17. And the blood stains on our clothes
With their fragrance were better than musk's scent.

18. So excellent is the call through the land, traveling,
Which in the mouth of days repeats our name.

19. We are a people whose morals refused nobility
To initiate harm on those who did no wrong.

20. White are our deeds, black are our events,
Green are our dwellings, red are our pastures.

21. Weakness does not show through us without fulfilling hopes
Even if we see death in our wishes.

22. No lack of archers leaping did we have
Except we made our plains archers.

23. When we sped to excel swiftly,
Even if not preceded, we were first.

24. Our zeal wards off destined fate
From us and we dispute the course of time, if we wish.

25. We confront disasters with our hands and repel them
And if they overwhelm us, we repel them with our hands.

26. A dominion, when the arrows of the enemy overwhelm us,
Its resolves cast whoever shoots arrows at us.

27. Resolves like shooting stars, piercing,
Continually burning our devils.

28. He gave so his generosity was not mistaken
Nor his reward ever deficient.

29. How many enemies of ours have by their tyranny
Been humbling themselves to us in submission and appeasement.

30. Like smooth silk feigning softness at its touch
Until it takes hold in the limbs.

31. He wraps betrayal for us in advice he alludes to
And mixes poison in honey and makes us drink.

32. We have turned a blind eye and been heedless of his evils
And it was not inability that made us overlook.

33. But we left him be, as we were confident
The Prince would repay him, so it sufficed us.