لَعَمري لَقَد حَكَّت رَحى الحَربِ بَعدَما

أَطارَت لُؤَيّاً قَبلُ شَرقاً وَمَغرِبا

By my life, the millstone of war has ground

After it flew high, east and west,

بَقِيَّةَ آلِ الكاهِنَينِ وَعِزَّها

فَعادَ ذَليلاً بَعدَما كانَ أَغلَبا

The remnant of the priestly house and its glory

So it returned humiliated after it had been victorious

فَطاحَ سَلامٌ وَاِبنُ سَعيَةَ عَنوَةً

وَقيدَ ذَليلاً لِلمَنايا اِبنُ أَخطَبا

Thus fell Salam and Ibn Saiyah by force

And the son of Akhtab was bound a captive to death

وَأَجلَبَ يَبغي العِزَّ وَالذُلَّ يَبتَغي

خِلافَ يَدَيهِ ما جَنى حينَ أَجلَبا

He who sought glory, now seeks humiliation

Unlike his former gains when he attacked

كَتارِكِ سَهلِ الأَرضِ وَالحَزنُ هَمُّهُ

وَقَد كانَ ذا في الناسِ أَكدى وَأَصعَبا

Like one who leaves the easy ground and grieves

Though once among men he was fiercest and hardest

وَشَأسٌ وَعَزّالٌ وَقَد صَلِيا بِها

وَما غُيِّبا عَن ذاكَ فيمَن تَغَيَّبا

Both Shammas and Azzal did pray with them

And were absent from that place with the absent ones

وَعَوفُ بنُ سَلمى وَاِبنُ عَوفٍ كِلاهُما

وَكَعبٌ رَئيسُ القَومِ حانَ وَخُيِّبا

And Awf the son of Salma and the son of Awf alike

And Kaab the chief of the people, fortune failed them

فَبُعداً وَسُحقاً لِلنَضيرِ وَمِثلُها

إِن أَعقَبَ فَتحٌ أَو إِنِ اللَهُ أَعقَبا

So ruin and crushing on the Nadhir and the like of them

If a conquest follows or if Allah brings conquest