ذَهَبَت بِاِبنِ الزَبَعرى وَقعَةٌ

كانَ مِنّا الفَضلُ فيها لَو عَدَل

There was a battle against the son of Zabban

We would have prevailed justly if fate was equal

وَلَقَد نِلتُم وَنِلنا مِنكُمُ

وَكَذاكَ الحَربُ أَحياناً دُوَل

And indeed you struck us and we struck you

For thus is war, it changes and alternates

إِذ شَدَدنا شَدَّةً صادِقَةً

فاجَأناكُمُ إِلى سَفحِ الجَبَل

When we were fiercely resolute

We took you by surprise to the mountain slope

إِذ تُوَلّونَ عَلى أَعقابِكُم

هَرَباً في الشَعبِ أَشباهَ الرَسَل

As you retreated backwards

Fleeing through the ravines like fleeing messengers

نَضَعُ الخَطِّيَّ في أَكتافِكُم

حَيثُ نَهوى عَلَلاً بَعدَ نَهَل

We planted our swords in your shoulders

Wherever we thrust them after unsheathing

فَسَدَحنا في مَقامٍ واحِدٍ

مِنكُمُ سَبعينَ غَيرَ المُنتَحَل

We felled seventy of you in one place

Besides those who escaped by guile

وَأَسَرنا مِنكُمُ أَعدادَهُم

فَاِنصَرَفتُم مِثلَ إِفلاتِ الحَجَل

And we captured your multitudes

So you left like collapsing structures

بِخَناطيلَ كَجِنّانِ المَلا

مَن يُلاقوهُ مِنَ الناسِ يُهَل

With the gait of possessed jinn

Whoever sees them panics and shrieks

يَخرُجُ الأَكدَرُ مِن أَستاهِكُم

مِثلَ ذَرقِ النيبِ يَأكُلنَ العَصَل

The most cowardly of you fled

Like young gazelles eating thorns

لَم يَفوتونا بِشَيءٍ ساعَةً

غَيرَ أَن وَلَّوا بِجُهدٍ وَفَشَل

They did not elude us for an instant

Except they fled with exhaustion and failure

ضاقَ عَنّا الشِعبُ إِذ نَجزَعُهُ

وَمَلَأنا الفُرطَ مِنهُم وَالرِجَل

The ravines were too narrow for us as we pursued them

And we filled them, their valleys and hills,

بِرِجالٍ لَستُمُ أَمثالَهُم

أُيِّدوا جِبريلَ نَصراً فَنَزَل

With men you are not the likes of

Who would aid Gabriel if he sought victory from above

وَعَلَونا يَومَ بَدرٍ بِالتُقى

طاعَةَ اللَهِ وَتَصديقَ الرُسُل

And we prevailed at Badr through piety

Obeying Allah and believing in the messengers

وَتَرَكنا في قُرَيشٍ عَورَةً

يَومَ بَدرٍ وَأَحاديثَ مَثَل

And we left an exposed scar in Quraysh

The day of Badr, and events to narrate as examples

وَرَسولُ اللَهِ حَقّاً شاهِدٌ

يَومَ بَدرٍ وَالتَنابيلُ الهُبَل

And the Messenger of Allah is truly a witness

To Badr, and the clear signals

وَتَرَكنا مِن قُرَيشٍ جَمعَهُم

مِثلَ ما جُمِّعَ في الخِصبِ الهَمَل

And we left Quraysh, all of them gathered

Like insects gathered on rotten meat

وَقَتَلنا مِنكُمُ أَهلَ اللِوَا

إِذ لَقيناكُم كَأَنّا أُسدُ طَلّ

And we killed your chieftains

When we met you all like attacking lions

فَقَتَلنا كُلَّ رَأسٍ مِنهُمُ

وَقَتَلنا كُلَّ جَحجاحٍ رِفَلّ

We killed every leader among them

And every puffed up vain one

كَم قَتَلنا مِن كَريمٍ سَيِّدٍ

ماجِدِ الجَدَّينِ مِقدامٍ بَطَل

How many noble lords did we kill

Gallant, from a line of gallantry, valiant in war

وَشَريفٍ لِشَريفٍ ماجِدٍ

لا نُباليهِ لَدى وَقعِ الأَسَل

And noble chiefs from a line of glorious chiefs

We do not care who they were when swords clash

حينَ أَعلَنتُم بِصَوتٍ كاذِبٍ

وَأَبو سُفيانَ كَي يَعلو هُبَل

When you falsely proclaimed in a deceitful voice

And Abu Sufyan, how lofty his delusions were

نَحنُ لا أَنتُم بَني أَستاهِها

نَحنُ في البَأسِ إِذا البَأسُ نَزَل

"We, not you, are the sons of Asthah!"

We are the ones in war when war descends