1. The truth is radiant, its path is clear,
And the moon shines in the dark night,

2. The sword makes straight the bend of every dissenter,
Whose insight is blinded from the path.

3. And when the forts shake open their gates,
The sword unlocks each sturdy bolt.

4. The Caliph spread resolve for the conflict,
Which wrapped the lands in clamorous tumult.

5. An army that gathers regiments in regiments
And masses squadrons upon squadrons.

6. You see it swarm with spears and lances
Like the sea in the clash of waves,

7. With standards fluttering in the breeze
Its densely packed waves ebbing and flowing.

8. From each impetuous charger of sturdy flanks,
Broad-chested, reliable in onslaught.

9. You see the iron shudder and their skins crawl
In fear of the stab the day after each attack.

10. A herd like the darkness in its blackness,
And some of them yellow in color like ivory.

11. From each towering noble steed tied as though
Its forelocks were knotted round the acacia's trunk.

12. When they swept down upon Bala overnight,
Its covenants were stronger than aloes wood.

13. It was as though amidst their homesteads pounced
The lion of the lair upon a flock of sheep.

14. Ibn Hafsun escaped, but he whom the sword seeks
Will find no refuge, however far he flees.

15. In a night wherein he was captured, it was as though
The night of ascension had been revealed to him.

16. He never ceased to beget every adverse war,
But now you have generated its happy issue.

17. If you ask the loyal who they are,
They say: loyal to each dark night.

18. The deserters rode off, men tried
In the gloom of night and knotty problems.

19. And a remnant remained in the fortress, around which
The gate of deliverance shook however it could.

20. The passes were closed off from them,
As though created without any passes.

21. Their misguidance turned back on its heels
And their unbelief bent down to the ground.

22. If an ignorant man comes asking about them,
Who has not seen the blood of death's throes,

23. Those are they above the pavement, some
Whispering together without any secret talk.

24. They rode up to the amir's gate as captives,
Richly adorned with halter and saddlecloth.

25. Their chief, his forehead was as though
His turban had been dyed in indigo.

26. When he saw the caliph's crown, the cross
Took for him the place of the crown.

27. These are the conquests which have ignited for us
In the darkness of horizons a lamp's light.