1. !

    O Ahwaz—how many calamities the deserted ruins have mourned,

    until the one who mourned you lifted the veil from my grief!

  2. «»

    The champions fell silent, and a calamity caught you unawares;

    and Azad went into your sanctuary, recounting:

  3. He fulfilled the fire’s promises to the full measure of its blaze,

    while the tongue of Ḍād—the Arabic language—broke faith with your soil.

  4. ،

    ؛

    They severed Arabness crosswise, when

    the arm fell; the heart within you held fast.

  5. «» :

    And Dujayl journeyed by night through the lands, crying out:

    Arise, that battles may resurrect us anew!

Sol 5.6