1. Is your heart made of stone or iron?
For in it, against injustice, there is great might,

2. Yet your patience - is it docile camels?
The resolute tremble, but you do not tremble.

3. For whenever you attempt something,
Your wise opinion makes your deed right.

4. You rose against the enemies like a sun,
So the ice melted in the heat of its position.

5. You attacked their sanctuary, unlike others,
And they met from you what Thamud met.

6. With an army in which flags tremble
And standards flutter before its vanguard.

7. In which the banners shake in wonder,
As they shook from flags held by hands.

8. You hurried to fight them with resolve,
By which distant hope comes near to you.

9. How often does one who counts cowardice as wisdom,
Regret it, though regret does not benefit.

10. And whoever sees what he wants and curbs cowardice,
Will see after it what he does not want.