1. Revive the abodes whose features time has erased
Despite the long ravages and revolving epochs

2. As though the Jews inscribed its lines
Save the synagogue and builder of the spider's web

3. Desolate as if you never frolicked there
In bounty and intimate gatherings of loved ones

4. Forget the past life
And home behind the dwelling long collapsed

5. Remember instead the company of fellows and thank them
Together they left from the idols

6. Idols of Mecca, their goal Yathrib
Through empty barren tracts and twisting canyons

7. Leaving the saddened familiar routes
Through every open plain and winding valley

8. Where the steeds gallop wildly
With bulging stomachs and outstretched necks

9. Of every smooth and fully shorn sorrel
Like the master brandishing his sword to heads turned away

10. An army with Uyainah leading its banners
And Sakhra commanding the factions

11. Like two full moons they appeared
A rain for the poor and refuge for the dispossessed

12. Until they reached Medina and returned
To death every experienced warrior

13. For ten months suppressing Muhammad
And his companions the finest of comrades

14. They declared one morn their departure
"We almost joined them!" you exclaimed

15. Were it not for the trenches many corpses
Would have been left for the birds and beasts