1. When their rage rose to storm the ascent,
They brought docile camels with harnesses ready,

2. With white saddle-cloths as though plant stalks were mixed in them,
From the churning of fate and misfortune.

3. A songster urges them while separated, confessing,
"I would have helped if the first guide had lingered."

4. "Do you not see how the weeping eye, when you parted,
Was attacked by people of malice and grudges?"

5. "You comforted us from the grief of sadness in your yard,
If you wished, you could have quenched a forlorn wanderer's thirst."

6. "How many hostile people lurk below your abode,
O mother of Amr, Haddad and Haddad!"

7. "Is there any gift for the promised one you were stingy with?
And for the hostage whose ransom you demanded from his redeemer?"

8. "If only you had lied when you did not commit flagrant sins
With people who persist in tyranny and corruption."

9. "For I have heard talk after our pact,
Of what you mentioned to Zayd and Shaddad."

10. "The dwellings at al-Burdain have been ruined,
Nothing of the dwellings remains but ruins."

11. "You can barely recognize this land, so changed
By the passage of years, as they changed our skins."

12. "I knew, though no one told me,
That passion steadily ruins the devoted."

13. "God destroyed a people and their followers-
Such are your Lord's ways with His servants."

14. "The Commander of the Faithful told them,
'God knows nothing of your honesty and strife.'"

15. "Whom God guides none can lead astray,
And whom He leads astray none can rightly guide."

16. "When their affairs were obscured,
The people of Juhaifa were clearly misguided."

17. "They met the onslaughts of the Commander of the Faithful upon them
Like a wind unleashed upon the wicked people of Aad."

18. "With them are the angels of the Merciful, having nothing
But trust in God and glorification as provision."

19. "The helpers of truth on spotted camels,
Your Lord's aid - they were the best aid."

20. "Juhaifa and his liars met
The draught of poison, unsheathed."

21. "Juhaifa met disgrace in their lives
And their souls did not bid their bodies farewell."

22. "The wasps that dwell in caves in Saba
Cannot penetrate the den of the slumbering lion."

23. "When Satan led them astray, he said to them
'You have missed the tryst of God's command.'"

24. "The dreams of a people made more crazed by madness
Were like the dreams of a butterfly in the dusk."

25. "When you said, 'Slaves of a dog oppress us,'
How could we draw near to wrongdoing and corruption?"

26. "Taste it, though you stood aloof from it,
A war flaming with zeal and fuel."

27. "God bless not a people deluded
By the word of the Jews to the two-faced hypocrite."

28. "See, the Commander of the Faithful - his origin
Is the highest branch, wherever the valleys converge."

29. "He met the eternal mountains of Banu Marwan,
Sniffing bedrock and rousing the stones of the canyon."

30. "We praise the One who heals His creation
From every innovator in religion, a transgressor."

31. "So God subdued a folk without protection,
From alarmists, full of grudges and envy."

32. "The clan of Ash'ath the Kindite met, when they broke treaties,
And Ibn al-Muhallab, a war with twanging bowstrings."

33. "When the enemy tries to sever your watering places
They will meet from them a resolute defender."

34. "You have ennobled, in strongholds between mountains,
The structure of possessions they built for you."

35. "When the generous count their efforts for you
You are superior in courage and ancestors."

36. "By the greatest ones when they embark on a daring venture,
And the feeders of people when the cooking pots boil."

37. "The family of Mughira and Al 'Ayash during respites
Stretched out to you inexhaustible seas."

38. "And Al Harith the Virtuous, his fires of glory blazed
With ever-burning embers in unsheathed blades."

39. "The sea surging with waves does not prevent its ships
Rising above it, resistant to harm and debris."

40. "One day with a broader range than your battles
Against the wicked and the repenting supplicant."

41. "To Mu'awiyah the victorious - he has
A binding faith and a heart free of deviation."

42. "Never did the vision of the Marwanites falter
Out of fear of some people, nor incline to unbelief."

43. "Until the kings of Rome came to you submissively,
Fettered in chains and shackles."

44. "A day that humiliated the necks of the Romans when it came -
Good tidings for those who were in caves and thickets."

45. "O Lord, never did those whom greed drove to You turn back,
So they praised the rain and yielded to the guides."

46. "They traveled roads whose courses led
To the green thickets, abundant in numbers."

47. "They traveled with feet bloodstained and stained with blood,
Their vanguards amidst twisting paths."

48. "Travel, for the Commander of the Faithful will rain on you
A beneficial rain, not mere drizzle."

49. "What do you see of dependents I have been burdened with
Whose number cannot be counted but by counting?"

50. "They were eighty, or eight more,
And were it not for hoping in you, I would have killed my children."