لَعَمري لَقَد قادَ اِبنُ أَحوَزَ قَودَةً

بِها ذَلَّ لِلإِسلامِ كُلُّ طَريقِ

By my life! Indeed Ibn Ahawz led a battalion

By which Islam's every path was humiliated

ثَنَيتَ ذُكورَ الخَيلِ مِن أَهلِ واسِطٍ

وَكُلَّ مُفَدّاةِ الرِهانِ سَبوقِ

You bent the stallions of the men of Wasit

And every swift-running of the wager

حَوافِيَ يُحذَينَ الحَديدَ كَأَنَّها

إِذا صَرَّخَ الداعي كِلابُ سَلوقِ

Swords which, when the caller calls out, are like

The dogs of Sulouq that bark

جَعَلنا بِقِندابيلَ بَينَ رُؤوسِهِم

وَأَجسادِهِم شَهباءَ ذاتَ خُروقِ

We made their heads and bodies between our spearheads

Flaming bodies full of gashes

بِكُلِّ مُضيءٍ كَالهِلالِ وَفَخمَةٍ

لَها غَبيَةٌ مِن عارِضٍ وَبُروقِ

With every shining crescent moon and magnificent one

Having an aversion from a prominent one and lightning

وَشَهباءَ قادَتها صَناديدُ فِتنَةٌ

نَطَحنا فَأَمسَت غَيرَ ذاتِ فُتوقِ

And flaming ones led by the champions of strife

We gored so they were left without skulls