1. By my life, the millstone of war has ground
After it flew high, east and west,

2. The remnant of the priestly house and its glory
So it returned humiliated after it had been victorious

3. Thus fell Salam and Ibn Saiyah by force
And the son of Akhtab was bound a captive to death

4. He who sought glory, now seeks humiliation
Unlike his former gains when he attacked

5. Like one who leaves the easy ground and grieves
Though once among men he was fiercest and hardest

6. Both Shammas and Azzal did pray with them
And were absent from that place with the absent ones

7. And Awf the son of Salma and the son of Awf alike
And Kaab the chief of the people, fortune failed them

8. So ruin and crushing on the Nadhir and the like of them
If a conquest follows or if Allah brings conquest