أَطَعنا رَبَّنا وَعَصاهُ قَومٌ

فَذُقنا طَعمَ طاعَتِنا وَذاقوا

We obeyed our Lord while a people disobeyed Him

So we tasted the flavor of our obedience, and they tasted

فَمالَ بِنا الغَبيطُ بِجانِبَيهِ

عَلى أَرَكٍ وَمالَ بِنا أُفاقُ

Thus fortune inclined toward us with both its sides

Upon a throne, and thus the horizons inclined toward us

كَأَنَّ جِيادَنا في رَعنِ زُمٍّ

جَرادٌ قَد أَطاعَ لَهُ الوَراقُ

As if our steeds were in the pasturage of locusts

Locusts to which the leaves had given obedience