1. Be patient, do not hurry against us, son of Ma`mar
For you are not, even if you increase, like the confused one

2. And you have no war tactic in fierce war
Nor do you have anyone who can save you with a mother or father

3. As the living used to chirp to him
Every impossible day he faces adversity

4. So if it were other than us who meet, he would say to us, “Go!”
And if it were other than him we meet, we would say to him, “Go!”

5. But we have all been afflicted with chronic misfortune
Lashing and stabbing with a worn out, broken spear

6. That is how we all were, O son of Ma`mar
While you are like a spider's fragile web

7. So if you throw it at us, and you will not do it
You will embark with it the worst of our battles

8. For our spears are not short or blunt
Nor are we afraid of the attack of the attacker

9. And we do not say time is the protection of our matter
In every situation, it was the obedience of Mu`sab

10. Rather we say, judgment is for God alone
And in God we are content and the blessed Prophet