1. Some of what fate granted us, oh Time, suffice us
So trust in the rest and entrust it to us

2. If your way is to please the enemy through us
Then, less than this pleases our adversaries

3. So praise be to Allah- praise without end
Since our weakness was only by our own hands

4. The sons of our uncle feared what would soon afflict us
Due to what followed joining what preceded us

5. And they knew that all kingdoms are soon lost
Though they last for a while with their people

6. And they worried about a state after its state
That comes quickly and aims its arrows at us

7. So they left no rest, plundering its blessings
By our hands, no ease, no comfort for us

8. And this has been their care for us
Until the son of sixty equaled the son of six

9. This is wisdom and upright opinion, so
Let not the people think it austerity for us

10. For those who will rule after them
Cannot be trusted; evil surrounds us

11. Poverty in our land is better for its owner
Than wealth, and little suffices us

12. Due to what the wealthy lord suffers
In our land, not that money corrupts us

13. And how much wealth among us
Has led to arrogance, leaving the people's mischief

14. So look, oh wise reasonable man, for it
Has great stature; record it in the books

15. Not even Chosroes found guidance to manage it
Though he was the wisest and most enabled of them

16. A friend said to me, while the eye watched him
At times, while he complained, saddening me:

17. Do you not see what our people did to us
They left no hope for us hopeful ones

18. They turned against us over time and listened
To our slanderers and backbiters

19. With no fault but brief lapses in our speech
And lengthy boasting of our glories

20. And that we return the war cries thinking us
From our cries in war, demons possessed

21. We care not if we split its ruggedness
Or the people's valleys or split our valleys

22. And their youngest scorns the bronze-skinned elderly
And silences the people's talking elders

23. We are the kings, the kings' relatives, and in
The prime of glory we built glories

24. We protect neighbor and patron, and those unlike
Trust us in the changing nights, befriending us

25. Our fathers were the best fathers when named
They were the proud, the noble people

26. Our days remain wrapped in honor
And cannot be traded for any days or nights

27. Kingship was raised in our homes and grew
Until it stood straight, we its straight raisers

28. Oh I wish I knew what sin was ours
That caused our near and far to be lost

29. Our gardens became cheap, their best
Traded for the slightest, lowest of our patrons

30. To Allah we belong; kinship did not benefit
Nor the spears of tribal protectors avail us

31. This is the reward for what our tongues dictated
Oh for the men and what their pens dictated

32. The day of misfortune when companies came
Bent toward us, with death assailing us

33. Three thousand were martyred, no more
Than thirty in count, their spears and the darkness of battle shields hiding us

34. As we retreated, and the glitter of swords revealing us
A thrust with which our father Ibrahim - before descending the two seas - entrusted us

35. Until they withdrew, their souls raging
With anger at our audacity

36. And before, their advance was turned back four times
By us, so who can elevate us to glory?

37. The day of youths, we do not tire, aroused
Like angry, provoked lions

38. Followed by the family of Hajjaj, and what
The mother of scabies birthed is not like our mange

39. They left no spear points in their hands
As we approached, clashing with them

40. Who but us faced them with our weapons? No,
By He who clarified the Furqan, revealing

41. And how many a stand we have with no fault
Nor faith or worldly blame

42. Oh loss of life, oh loss of our deal
Oh ill luck of the most miserable present and loss

43. We feared the transference of the kingdom among Mudar
So hello to you, oh kingdom of Yaman

44. If the kings of Rome turned away, they did not reach
A tenth of what our brothers did to us

45. We complained to them of deprivation and sought
Glory and gardens from them

46. So today we rejoice if they leave an eighth
To our wealthy from the inheritance of his grandfather

47. I sacrifice myself for he who said, while poetry flows
Before me, recorded by the narrators

48. Oh seeker of vengeance, rise, fear not our power
For we do not respect those who don't respect us

49. So the cups of injustice will be served boiling hot
To those who served us the cup of betrayal

50. No enemy of ours is more deserving of our hate
Than the cousin who pained us endlessly

51. More dear than the son of Ali and the nobles
Of our fathers that injustice reached our valley

52. The obstinate took from us what he wants
Secretly and openly, indirectly and directly

53. Our leaders wanted to extinguish our embers
Then add the Ahsāʾ to those who abandoned us

54. Oh how ugly their views of us! Had they known
The truth of precedence, they wouldn't choose mollifiers

55. Tell them, may Allah not empower them
And increase their weakness and subjugation

56. Do they resent us except that through us
They became obeyed kings, obeyed by us?

57. Their early ones gained footing through our first ones
Thus their later ones gained footing through our later ones

58. How much we sufficed them in trying times
If only they reciprocated good with good

59. We protect and strike the king beneath them
Strikes that send the chicks of resolve fleeing

60. Soon they will know the biggest losers are they
If they call for help, shouting, "Oh defenders!"

61. Did we not protect and strike for them
Blows that send the concepts of resolve fleeing?

62. Soon they will know the biggest losers are they
If they call for help shouting, "Oh defenders!"