1. When the callers called and the staff split,
And the enemy's blazing fires did not go out,

2. We took refuge in Al-Abbas, fearing the occurrence of strife
And its bared teeth swiftly approaching.

3. How many helpers of the impudent you made childless
By striking their sons with spears on ominous Thursdays!

4. So Al-Abbas caused a calamity when he became a calamity
That stopped every belligerent transgressor.

5. You enriched those who were not enriched among the slowest of horsemen,
And you rectified the repelling of the cunning plotters.

6. You, whom hostility is feared and against whom the enemies hurl their spears
When the horses of the valiant warriors charge.

7. You rose high and left no betrayer on earth,
And secured all our frightened lives.

8. You refuted the assaults of the apostates and foiled their plots
With a victorious one reciting the scripture.

9. Some lagged behind while you hastily moved
To restrain the goring of the daring assailant.

10. You are, over there, the foremost horseman against the enemies
And a generous host at the battle positions.

11. With a strike that removes resolve from its settled place
And a lunge with the tips of piercing spears.

12. You outran death for the people of Kufa after
Their destruction by one of the roaming catastrophes was intended.

13. So those in the palace did not benefit at all and cried out
To you in the voices of pleading women.

14. The brother of war walks bending then follows
Humbly the horsemen of the trained steeds.

15. They leave among their dead some champions between them,
At Sura, in its raids and counter raids.

16. And since you quenched its thirst with Tadmur
It has not tasted any drink except morning draughts.