1. What ails your eyes that sadness has afflicted them
As if the sand grains have rubbed upon their lids

2. Is it from parting with a beloved you were wont to meet
While enemies and distance stood between you two

3. Or is it from the mischief of a folk, worthless they are
When wars ignited amongst us, flames spreading

4. They cease not from the misguidance they rode
Without a shining light to guide them or a helping arm

5. We had adjured them in God's name altogether
But not moved were they by wombs or oaths

6. Until when they insisted upon warring
And rancor and hatred were harvested between us

7. We marched against them with an army in its flanks
Lanterns of white and linked coats of mail

8. With steeds prancing briskly bearing heroes
As though they were mountain goats in their trotting pace

9. An army led by a rock and headed by one
Who is like a roaring absent lion, growling and fierce

10. So the time brought forth a tribe from their dwellings
And it was between us and them a meeting at Ohod

11. Many were slain from amongst them in clusters
Like goats a bitter cold slew at the mountain pass

12. Slain were generous souls - the Bani Najjar amongst them
And Mus'ab of Qananna, and around him warriors gathering

13. And Hamza the lion, lying dead while around him
Bereaved women circle, his nose and liver smashed

14. It was as if when he fell in his fight
Under armor while in it was a bold lion

15. The conversation of the molar-toothed one and his companions fled
Just as ostriches flee in haste when scared

16. Turning their backs, not facing the foe, full of fright
So they were saved by the hillside and twisted path

17. Women weep for them without husbands
With each bereaved one's garments torn

18. We left them for the birds a banquet
And for the beasts to go to their bodies