1. We kept faith with Amr on a day of Amr's like one
Hunted away by a Mudhij and the Scythians,

2. Messenger of Allah's Messenger, greater in his right
Upon us, and he who knows not the right is lost,

3. We turned him back; no shame now stains Lu'ayy ibn Ghalib
In him, now that the roads are closed against him,

4. In us he found sanctuary with men of God and with Ja'far,
And with Malik, though the wrong was his wont before;

5. So Amr dwelt in Medina unscathed,
While the Syrians jeered at him on every side.

6. Yet we are a folk whom our neighbor can trust amidst us,
Be the day one when the sun's light is quenched and dead,

7. Thus the virtuous women enjoined their clan,
And so Umran and he who guards the truth commanded.