1. The nations came to you submissively bowing their necks,
Submitting to your decree and judgment.

2. The kings of the earth have pledged themselves to you,
However much valor exhausted itself or generosity amassed.

3. Then let your sword be gentle, for unbelief is broken
By its flashes, and religion established and organized.

4. Do you see any trace of injustice left in the land
Other than the sobbing of the bereaved amidst the ruins?

5. These are the tips of the polytheists' spears bowing down,
Admitting and knowing that polytheism is condemned.

6. The mountain peaks inform us, as their thrones collapse,
That the mighty cliff is demolished.

7. May your sword be sharp in the furthest reaches of their lands!
By you they sought refuge and from your troops they fled defeated,

8. So the swift pursuer with dread dispersed them,
Until the Sanctuary gave them protection in your shade.

9. Roaming the plain of the earth, they remained ignorant
Of any settled territory of all the regions.

10. Wherever you halted the horses, they turned back
Like the winds, erasing their traces.

11. Their landmarks vanished after them into drifting clouds
Facing the keen swords and the levelled spearheads.

12. They ask those ruins no favour but
The dismembered corpses and rubble reply to them.

13. Nor do their steeds tread upon any land
Except that their slightest touch ignites the embers within it.

14. You left them desolate after making them settled,
While the earth lies empty of them due to their injustice.

15. If the horizon stretches away with them until they weary of it,
Their zeal will impel them back towards you.

16. Until they cast away the staff of travel and clung
To a covenant of protection from the victorious King.

17. They surrendered themselves with hands of humiliation and believed
A treaty inviolable to them has been made binding.

18. They begged for his pardon for souls that knew
Life for them was possible through some of what they gained.

19. They walk in the shade of banners reminding them
Of days when they were shrouded by vultures and eagles,

20. Safe from every fearsome forewarning
That sometimes rides the wind and devours at random,

21. And from every vanished vanity whose extent of folly
Was as if towards the entrails of the foe it lunged,

22. And from the writhing of tent ropes towards their heads,
As if about to snap them up in mid-air,

23. With the lions roaring and the banners fluttering
As if fixed in their hearts,

24. And the horses strung together by horses, not lines
Of ink, for the purpose of effort, not payment of blood-money.

25. The earth is a table spread by the awe of the heroes
And the atmosphere filled by the neighing of horsemen.

26. The swords flash among the play of lances
And the blades blaze in the thick of scabbards,

27. As if they had filled the vastness of space around them
With the gloom of phantoms, forests, and thickets.

28. The supporters of guidance and religion took cover
Behind faces smiling at the dignity of events.

29. They wrapped themselves in the raiment of the sun’s protection
And donned the fine garb of restraining vain mirage.

30. As if flashes of aid from you gleamed upon their heads,
Since they were united in purpose and bonds of brotherhood.

31. While the adherents of unbelief walk in pairs, doubting
The livelihood, at times, and even accusing one another.

32. Until they see you from the furthest end of the plain
Where the dove of peace has alighted and the sword of pardon rules.

33. What their burnished blades were accustomed to
Is portrayed among their valleys and hilltops.

34. When you bared it in parting from them,
The necks and the summit bowed down prostrate before you.

35. With faces humbled in the dust submissively,
As if each brow of theirs was a footstool.

36. If your life-giving sea surges into flood for them,
They breach the ranks, and the waves of panic break apart.

37. Or if they behold the full moon in its highest station,
Beyond it, shadows envelop them all around.

38. If you pardon, the All-Merciful is reconciled,
If you punish, the All-Merciful takes vengeance.

39. Make peace! No vengeance remains with us against them.
It oscillates among them while bounty and blessing are yours.