لَعَمري لَقَد قادَ اِبنُ أَحوَزَ قَودَةً

لَعَمري لَقَد قادَ اِبنُ أَحوَزَ قَودَةً

بِها ذَلَّ لِلإِسلامِ كُلُّ طَريقِ

بِها ذَلَّ لِلإِسلامِ كُلُّ طَريقِ

By my life, Ibn Ahwaz indeed led a campaign

By my life! Indeed Ibn Ahawz led a battalion

through which every road yielded to Islam.

By which Islam's every path was humiliated

ثَنَيتَ ذُكورَ الخَيلِ مِن أَهلِ واسِطٍ

ثَنَيتَ ذُكورَ الخَيلِ مِن أَهلِ واسِطٍ

وَكُلَّ مُفَدّاةِ الرِهانِ سَبوقِ

وَكُلَّ مُفَدّاةِ الرِهانِ سَبوقِ

You wheeled the stallions of the people of Wasit,

You bent the stallions of the men of Wasit

and every cherished, fleet racing mare,

And every swift-running of the wager

حَوافِيَ يُحذَينَ الحَديدَ كَأَنَّها

حَوافِيَ يُحذَينَ الحَديدَ كَأَنَّها

إِذا صَرَّخَ الداعي كِلابُ سَلوقِ

إِذا صَرَّخَ الداعي كِلابُ سَلوقِ

bare-hoofed, being shod with iron, as though they were,

Swords which, when the caller calls out, are like

when the caller shouts, the hounds of Saluq.

The dogs of Sulouq that bark

جَعَلنا بِقِندابيلَ بَينَ رُؤوسِهِم

جَعَلنا بِقِندابيلَ بَينَ رُؤوسِهِم

وَأَجسادِهِم شَهباءَ ذاتَ خُروقِ

وَأَجسادِهِم شَهباءَ ذاتَ خُروقِ

At Qindabil we placed between their heads

We made their heads and bodies between our spearheads

and their bodies a steel-gray onslaught that tore breaches,

Flaming bodies full of gashes

بِكُلِّ مُضيءٍ كَالهِلالِ وَفَخمَةٍ

بِكُلِّ مُضيءٍ كَالهِلالِ وَفَخمَةٍ

لَها غَبيَةٌ مِن عارِضٍ وَبُروقِ

لَها غَبيَةٌ مِن عارِضٍ وَبُروقِ

with every blade gleaming like the crescent, and a mighty host

With every shining crescent moon and magnificent one

with a shower from a rain cloud and flashes of lightning.

Having an aversion from a prominent one and lightning

وَشَهباءَ قادَتها صَناديدُ فِتنَةٌ

وَشَهباءَ قادَتها صَناديدُ فِتنَةٌ

نَطَحنا فَأَمسَت غَيرَ ذاتِ فُتوقِ

نَطَحنا فَأَمسَت غَيرَ ذاتِ فُتوقِ

And a steel-gray host led by champions of strife,

And flaming ones led by the champions of strife

we rammed, and it could break through no more.

We gored so they were left without skulls