1. I stood questioning her: What ails her?
And I weep for the distance, her ruins!

2. I asked the inscriptions, as if the inscriptions
Would answer the distance's question

3. Without Ajdabiya, sermons that deafen
And preoccupy its visitor, confused

4. Ajdabiya, has the day of resurrection come
And the earth shook with its tremors?

5. Has God resurrected those in the graves
And the earth brought out its burdens?

6. The bride of cities, what has afflicted her
In a night that tore her limbs apart?

7. That denied her rest at dawn
And crowned her with clouds of dread?

8. The meteors shuddered in the horizon when
They saw in Ajdabiya what horrified them

9. Her homes collapsed with the strikes
And I echoed the howls of their destruction

10. Death did not spare her youths
Nor did death pardon her elders

11. Death did not frighten her youths
Nor did death pardon her elders

12. Death did not frighten the lion of battle
So it pounced on the lions and their cubs

13. Death did not have mercy on the wearer of bracelets
Who had died embracing her children

14. If only the messenger of death
Had been gentle with the child when he took her

15. Blessed are You my Lord! You created souls
And predestined their lifespans in secrecy

16. How much wisdom You have in the universe
That You have locked away from the mind

17. Your tenderness, my Lord, destruction has spread
Across the earth and unleashed its torrents!

18. The earth cracked open to reveal its jinn
And drove its monsters to mankind

19. The sky poured embers over it
Seeking to ignite it

20. Ajdabiya woke the conscience of existence
And earned what it earned!

21. Except in the cause of Arabism, clearly
Straightening its inclinations with art!

22. And a doctor's hand that stanches
The blood of its children, stifling its flows!

23. And money a generous Arab spends
On a family that has lost its money!

24. So Ajdabiya's people are our brothers
With our souls we redeem those in need

25. Certain of its people in their state
Even if time changes their circumstances

26. We shoulder burdens when hardships are imposed
Upon it, you see in it their bearer

27. Whenever the East is battered by ordeals
How many the likes of which the East has weathered

28. Nations that awoke after the long decline
Mobilizing their heroes for glory

29. Casting off the yoke from their necks
And hurling their shackles into the sea

30. In their hatred of fetters, a girl almost
Smashes her ankle bracelet

31. The nations of the East have sworn
Never to appease those who sought their humiliation

32. Weapons have become the girl's bracelet
And the child's toy, when it suits her

33. How many a nation thought the East
A fertile pasture, only to disappoint its hopes

34. Vain safety drove it there
To return licking its tail