1. There was a battle against the son of Zabban
We would have prevailed justly if fate was equal

2. And indeed you struck us and we struck you
For thus is war, it changes and alternates

3. When we were fiercely resolute
We took you by surprise to the mountain slope

4. As you retreated backwards
Fleeing through the ravines like fleeing messengers

5. We planted our swords in your shoulders
Wherever we thrust them after unsheathing

6. We felled seventy of you in one place
Besides those who escaped by guile

7. And we captured your multitudes
So you left like collapsing structures

8. With the gait of possessed jinn
Whoever sees them panics and shrieks

9. The most cowardly of you fled
Like young gazelles eating thorns

10. They did not elude us for an instant
Except they fled with exhaustion and failure

11. The ravines were too narrow for us as we pursued them
And we filled them, their valleys and hills,

12. With men you are not the likes of
Who would aid Gabriel if he sought victory from above

13. And we prevailed at Badr through piety
Obeying Allah and believing in the messengers

14. And we left an exposed scar in Quraysh
The day of Badr, and events to narrate as examples

15. And the Messenger of Allah is truly a witness
To Badr, and the clear signals

16. And we left Quraysh, all of them gathered
Like insects gathered on rotten meat

17. And we killed your chieftains
When we met you all like attacking lions

18. We killed every leader among them
And every puffed up vain one

19. How many noble lords did we kill
Gallant, from a line of gallantry, valiant in war

20. And noble chiefs from a line of glorious chiefs
We do not care who they were when swords clash

21. When you falsely proclaimed in a deceitful voice
And Abu Sufyan, how lofty his delusions were

22. "We, not you, are the sons of Asthah!"
We are the ones in war when war descends