1. My people, you are an example for all peoples
Are you said to belong to Yafith or Shem?

2. The sons of my uncle from Nizar and Yagrob
Are neither Bedouin nor non-Arabs

3. They emulate the West until they are about
To worship it with the worship of idols

4. They did not imitate its insight, but rather
Followed its system without a system

5. The West has customs like gases that crept
Through the East in the manner of disease in bodies

6. Do not trust the colonizers, for how often do they have
A war whose face is masked by peace?

7. A war on the language and land of the countries
It is not waged with cannon and sword

8. And if its homelands are safe for a people
While its tongue is not, it fears the cutting of tents

9. I do not know an Arab twisting his jaw
If he ever did, his jaw would be with speech

10. If his mouth is heard with hated dialect
In it is the Saxon chanting of tunes

11. A word of eloquence and another coarse
Like gas mixed in a cup of alcohol

12. My anguish over eloquence, a group
Of its people paralyzed the thrower's right hand

13. They did not find its treasures, so there they are
Throwing it into poverty and extinction

14. The pearls are hidden in the folds of the sea
And the gold, if you wish it, beneath the sand dunes

15. The Arabs will not regain their past glory
While their tongue is the target of my arrows

16. To rebuild what crumbled of their structure
The “d” is the first wall and pillar

17. If an Easterner boasts of other than Arabs
His ancestors the Turks and Byzantines

18. Then I am proud that I do not belong
To the non-Arabs, my uncles and paternal uncles

19. If you ask about me, to whom do I belong?
To the shepherds of camels and sheep

20. Is glory sought without the glory of the sons of Nizar and Yagrob?
An Iraqi boasts and a Levantine is proud