1. تركت ابن ثور كالحوار وحوله

    نوائح تفري كل جيب مقدد

    I left Ibn Thawr like a suckling camel calf, and around him

    were wailing women, tearing every neckline to shreds.

  2. تناولته والظعن خلفي وخلفه

    بأبيض من ماء الحديد مهند

    I struck him while the women in litters were behind me and behind him,

    with a gleaming Indian-forged sword of pure iron.

  3. عجوم لهام الدارعين كأنه

    شهاب غضى من ملهب متوقد

    a crusher of armored men's skulls, as though it were

    a ghada-wood firebrand from a fiercely blazing fire.

  4. أقول له والسيف يعجم رأسه

    أنا ابن أنيس فارساً غير قعدد

    I say to him, as the sword bites into his head:

    'I am the son of Unays—a horseman, not one who hangs back.

  5. أنا ابن الذي لم ينزل الدهر قِدْرَه

    رحيب فناء الدار غير مزند

    I am the son of one who never took his cooking pot off the fire,

    whose house has a spacious courtyard, and who is no miser.'

  6. وقلت له خذها بضربة ماجد

    حنيف على دين النبي محمد

    And I said to him, 'Take this blow from a noble man,

    an upright monotheist following the faith of the Prophet Muhammad.'

  7. وكنت إذا هم النبي بكافر

    سبقت إليه باللسان وباليد

    And whenever the Prophet contemplated action against an unbeliever,

    I was first to reach him, with tongue and hand.