1. أَلا هَل أَتى عَنّا سُعادَ وَدونَها

    مَهامِهُ بيدٍ تَعتَلي بالصَعالِكِ

    Ah, has news of us reached Suʿād—though between us lie

    Trackless, barren wastes that overpower outlaws—

  2. بِأَنّا صَبَحنا القَومَ في حُرَّ دارِهِم

    حِمامَ المَنايا بِالسُيوفِ البَواتِكِ

    That we brought the people, at dawn in the heart of their home,

    The doom of death, with keen-cutting swords?

  3. قَتَلنا بعَمرو مِنهُمُ خَيرَ فارِسٍ

    يَزيدَ وَسَعداً وَاِبنَ عَوفٍ بِمالِكِ

    For ʿAmr we slew their finest horseman—

    Yazīd—and Saʿd; and Ibn ʿAwf for Mālik.

  4. ظَلَلنا نُفَرّي بِالسُيوفِ رُؤوسَهُم

    وَنَرشُقُهُم بِالنَبلِ بَينَ الدَكادِكِ

    We kept cleaving their heads with swords,

    And pelting them with arrows among the low sandhills.