اللهُ أعطاكَ من أعدائكَ الظَفَرا

فلم تُبَقِّ لهُمْ ناباً ولا ظِفْرا

God gave you victory over your enemies

Leaving them neither fang nor claw

قلّدْتَهُم منَناً حتى إذا عجِزَتْ

عنها رقابُهُمُ قلدْتَهُم بَتْرا

You overwhelmed them with favors until when

Their necks were too weak to bear them, you overwhelmed them with severing

سَرَوا إليكَ فلما أصبحوا حكمَتْ

بيضُ الظُبى أنهم لا يحمَدون سُرى

They came to you under cover of darkness but when dawn broke

The white fingers showed they were not to be praised for their night visit

جاءوا صفوفَ قِراعٍ فانتقمْتَ وما

أبرَّ جودَك لو جاءوا ضيوفَ قِرى

They came in ranks of battering rams but you took revenge and

Your generosity would not have diminished had they come as guests

جعلتَهُم جُزُراً حينَ أبَوْا

أن يطلبوا بلسانِ الطاعةِ الجُزُرا

You made them fragments when they refused

To ask with the tongue of obedience for mercy

من لم يدع كوّةً حتى يفتّشَها

فقُلْ له ستُلاقي الحيّةَ الذَكَرا

Whoever left no nook unsearched

Tell him he will encounter a male serpent

يسعى أبو حربةٍ في رُتبةٍ منِعَتْ

فلو أبو ألفِ رمحٍ رامَها قُهِرا

Abu Harb strives in an impenetrable formation

Even if the father of a thousand spears charged he would be overwhelmed

وتستخفُّ أمانيهِ منيّتَهُ

حتى يرومَ ثريّا الأفْقِ وهْو ثَرى

And regards his hopes as trivial

Until he tries for the fertile horizon when he is infertile

حتى انتحاهُ أبو الفياضِ منصَلتاً

كالعَضْبِ ما مسّ من أطرافِه بُتِرا

Until Abu Al-Fayyad confronted him with two knives

Like a young camel that had touched no stump at its extremities

ما زالَ يهدُرُ مثل الفحْلِ من نظرٍ

حتى أرقتَ بكِتْبَتيْهِ دماً هُدِرا

He did not cease to roar like a stallion in musth

Until you spilled his blood copiously with your two swords

تبّاً له عاوياً نال الحِمامَ به

فجاءه عجِلاً للحينِ مُبْتَدِرا

Damn him, may he be miserable, he obtained the pigeons but

Swiftly he came to collect them

جَنى فلما أراهُ الفتحُ غايتَهُ

ولّى وأهدى إليكَ الراسَ معتذِرا

He picked and when he saw the conquest at its limit

He turned and offered you his head seeking pardon

فليَهْنِكَ الفتحُ مُخْضرّاً جوانبُه

تكادُ تقطِفُ من أثنائِه الزَهَرا

So may the conquest refresh you, its sides

Almost picking flowers from its midst

سلمتَ إذ سرتَ بالإسلامِ معتَصِماً

وخابَ إذ بالنّصارى جاءَ مُنتصِرا

You were safe when you held fast to Islam

While he failed when he came as a Christian victor

إن الذي يكْفُرُ المولى صنيعتَهُ

ويدّعي أنّه أولى كمَنْ كفَرا

Verily he who denies the Lord's bounty

And claims he is more deserving is like an infidel