لَعَمري لَقَد حَكَّت رَحى الحَربِ بَعدَما

أَطارَت لُؤَيّاً قَبلُ شَرقاً وَمَغرِبا

By my life, the mill of war ground on after

It had sent up sparks east and west.

بَقِيَّةَ آلِ الكاهِنَينِ وَعِزَّها

فَعادَ ذَليلاً بَعدَما كانَ أَغلَبا

It left the rest of the priestly house and their glory

Humiliated, after they had been victorious.

فَطاحَ سَلامٌ وَاِبنُ سَعيَةَ عَنوَةً

وَقيدَ ذَليلاً لِلمَنايا اِبنُ أَخطَبا

Salam and the son of Sufyan fell in battle

And the son of Akhtab was bound a captive to death.

وَأَجلَبَ يَبغي العِزَّ وَالذُلَّ يَبتَغي

خِلافُ يَدَيهِ ما جَنى حينَ أَجلَبا

He who had sought glory, now sought humiliation,

The opposite of what he had obtained when he sought glory.

كَتارِكِ سَهلِ الأَرضِ وَالحَزنُ هَمُّهُ

وَقَد كانَ ذا في الناسِ أَكدى وَأَصعَبا

Like one who abandons the flat ground and walks uphill,

Though he had been the strongest and most stubborn among men.

وَشَأسٌ وَعَزّالٌ وَقَد صَلِيا بِها

وَما غُيِّبا عَن ذاكَ فيمَن تَغَيَّبا

And Shammas and 'Izzal had prayed in it

And had not been absent from it when others were absent.

وَعَوفُ بنُ سَلمى وَاِبنُ عَوفٍ كِلاهُما

وَكَعبٌ رَئيسُ القَومِ حانَ وَخُيِّبا

And 'Auf ibn Salma and the son of 'Awf, both of them

And Ka'b, the leader of the people - the war destroyed them.

فَبُعداً وَسُحقاً لِلنَضيرِ وَمِثلُها

إِنُ اُعقِبَ فَتحٌ أَو إِنِ اللَهُ أَعقَبا

So curse its ruins and similarly curse it!

If a conquest follows or if Allah follows it!