وبعدُ في غزوة كانت مباركةً

وبعدُ في غزوة كانت مباركةً

تروى زراعة أقوام وتحتصدُ

تروى زراعة أقوام وتحتصدُ

And afterward, in a campaign that was blessed,

After the blessed raid,

The crops of peoples are watered and reaped.

whose clouds watered people's crops and harvested them,

نالت غمامتُها فيلاً بوابلها

نالت غمامتُها فيلاً بوابلها

والسُغْد حين دنا شؤوبها البردُ

والسُغْد حين دنا شؤوبها البردُ

Its cloud reached an elephant with its downpour,

whose heavy rain captured an elephant,

And Sogd, when its doom—the hail—drew near.

and when winter approached, made Sughd shiver.

إذ لا يزال له نهبٌ يُنفِّله

إذ لا يزال له نهبٌ يُنفِّله

من المقاسم لا وُخشٌ ولا نكدُ

من المقاسم لا وُخشٌ ولا نكدُ

For he always has plunder that he bestows,

He still had plenty of booty to distribute

From the allotted spoils, neither paltry nor scanty.

with no fear or sorrow in the shares.

تلك الفتوح التي تدلي بحجتها

تلك الفتوح التي تدلي بحجتها

على الخليفة أنا معشر حُشُدُ

على الخليفة أنا معشر حُشُدُ

Those are the conquests you adduce as proof

These are the openings proven by their argument

Before the caliph that we are a people ready to muster.

to the Caliph, we are the mobilized troops.

لم تثن وجهك عن قوم غزوتهم

لم تثن وجهك عن قوم غزوتهم

حتى يقال لهم بُعْدا وقد بعِدوا

حتى يقال لهم بُعْدا وقد بعِدوا

You did not turn your face from a people you attacked

You did not turn your face from the people you raided

Until they were told, 'Perish!'—and they had perished.

until it was said they are far, and they were far.

لم ترض من حِصنهم أن كان ممتنِعاً

لم ترض من حِصنهم أن كان ممتنِعاً

حتى يُكَبَّرُ فيها الواحدُ الصمدُ

حتى يُكَبَّرُ فيها الواحدُ الصمدُ

You were not content that their fortress stood impregnable,

You were not pleased if their fortress was impregnable

Until the One, the Self-Sufficient, was proclaimed great within it.

until the One, the Eternal was glorified in it.