1. The flies passed over Ibn Kumāsha’s mouth;

    their host scattered, their wings broken.

  2. They seemed like men lying slain, swept over

    at daybreak by his poison-laden winds.

  3. How swift a war, arising from Banū Ḥarb—

    its butcher had taken up arms against them!

  4. O ʿAlī—exalted is God!—how many a traitor

    you whispered to at dawn, and wretched was his morning!

Sol 5.6