1. And lightning that gives birth to death
With the roar of thunder, gloomy shadows

2. That make the days gray with fear
And its horror shakes the darkness of nights

3. When the winds of victory blow through it
The heights receive it with open mouths

4. And it imagines swords in its mind's eye
Glinting in blood, quenching thirsts

5. So many brief lifetimes we have lived
And hopes we have harbored so long

6. On a day when Amr plunged his wings
Into battle, finding glory

7. And when the dark night drew its train
Concealing the path of the rising saplings

8. There appeared like the coat of a leopard
In a night with the gaze of a doe

9. He turned away and the darkness was his guard
Over one treading with worn-out sandals

10. And he spent the night as if the ostrich's hiding place
Swayed under him, approached by the north wind