Sol 5.6

  1. To God I complain of a hand—while He is the Avenger—

    that rebelled, transgressed, and enslaved the best of nations;

  2. a hand that provoked the Lord of vengeance and challenged

    His rightful majesty—woe to it!—and so it failed.

  3. To God I complain of what it has done to His people,

    for His zeal for truth is the greatest zeal.

  4. My God, the utmost a servant can do is raise his prayer,

    by Your enabling, O God, in the hour of affliction.

  5. What You do not approve has befallen Islam

    at the hands of a band of aggressors upon the face of the earth.

  6. Yet Your word is supreme, and You are fully able to seize them;

    and in granting respite lies the most terrible seizure.

  7. So hasten to seize them, and break their backs;

    for through them Islam has been brought low.

  8. They have plunged deep into oppression and armed themselves for it,

    and have honored no believer’s inviolable covenant.

  9. Yet Your eye lies in wait, and God is ever triumphant;

    Your host shall prevail, and Your war is my succor.

  10. Manifest Yourself against them by the name Avenger, and smite

    their strength with weakness; overtake them with overwhelming might.

  11. Annihilate them, O Terrible in vengeance, and send them back

    to a disastrous end, amid disgrace and curse.

Sol 5.6