1. My mother's sons hurried to search for their cooking pots
Yet nothing moved the pain except their stillness

2. The cavalry of misfortune still lies under their saddlebags
While the chests of the riders are over their mounts

3. By the glory of great deeds, they did not attack our homes
Nor were they fought but by the length of their lances

4. Nor was what I chose of their weakness
Except the origin in what it endured of discord

5. They blame the difficult access to supremacy
And no glory except by climbing its sorrows

6. So whoever wants the days white, let him not be
Grieved by the nights rolling with their sorrow

7. We rode the backs of swift she-camels that
Our knights who are in their bellies have loaded

8. And we said to our guide through the desert that we
Have returned to our fathers and their affairs

9. They crossed the clefts of the white desert east and west
Was there not from the water of the first and its clay?

10. What business with fretting is the ship
Mooring on the coast of the desert extending its rope

11. If the people cross the seas, we have
What they do not find for them with its ships

12. With nothing but that we are a band
Wrathful to us are the Muslims and their religion

13. They exceeded the limits of patience unjustly with a nation
They have become flexible in the decision to cut its vines

14. And we have long deluded ourselves
Seeking remedies that untie their knots

15. Until determination was revealed, no barriers below it
And the clear text fell short with its excuses

16. And none of the foreigners remained in their desire
With a nation that truthfully persisted in its stillness

17. So we said, with the swords upon you, they are
More eloquent than our pens with their clanging

18. If the violations of our covenants make the enemies yield
Then with the reins of the white horses, their aggression is curbed

19. Oh how much they belittled our stand
And how they attacked us during their times

20. She quickly forgot what passed from our afflictions
And that we transcended towering generations

21. The thrones of the East thought they would not
As if there was nothing between As-Safa and Al-Marwah

22. And that the time of revenge arrived, so they were shaken
Alas, that which they presented from assumptions is lost

23. So Islam did not cease to be vigorous with its people
And its fires were not extinguished with their embers

24. And the Quran did not stop refreshing their nature
So it is far-fetched to fear the drying up of its spring

25. So a people must not be deceived by our soft outward appearance
The brown sword is not mild with its softness

26. For us are all the Ghadanfar from the sons of Othman
For which their heroes bow to its sharpness

27. So we do not boast that we defeated its bold
And previously we felled its lion in its den

28. The hands of its soldiers have not taken up the sword
Even if skilled in sharpening, the hands of its spears

29. Battalions in the sword of the sea frighten it
Out of fear, fluttering in their corners

30. And were it not for the safe harbors sustaining it
It would have sunk into the depths of its waves

31. If Rome besieged it to attack our siege
It would have placed them with us in its prisons

32. And in every day there is an incident for its armies
Its plain becomes too narrow for them with its ships

33. It has tasted some of the inferiority a weakling harvested
Mixing therein its cowardice and madness

34. War has ignited its doubts
When the Arabs reach it with the snow of their certainty

35. So protect, O you Arabs, the carriers
An ancestry, so be resolute to its own

36. And guard the reins of the kingdom strongly, so it does not
Carry but soft and weak his saddles

37. And these ripe fruits incline to you
The falling of the fruits from the branches of their trees

38. Tripoli will know that we are its people
And Barqa, we do not accept less than it

39. And every handful of soil for us from it
Is like the one the friend holds to its intimacy

40. You have given victory to the Commander of the Faithful for a nation
Muhammad, the light of its eyes for the length of time

41. It establishes the rule of its Commander in truth for it
And it observes its solemn covenant with kindness

42. And from the lords of the East around you are allies
Who carry your dais and guard its castles

43. O interceding sword of victory do its works
And it always remains in its right hand

44. If it feels fear in its dignity from Muhammad
It finds guidance through you to its supporter

45. And if afflictions befall it, may
The light on its forehead through Abbas never cease

46. When the world of Islam expresses gratitude to you
What significance remains for a fly with its buzzing?

47. An emigrant missing you longs
That distance tears apart, overflowing with its longing

48. If you are unable to help its tribe
Then who would accept the abstention of its support?

49. If not for the obligatory rights, nothing would grow
Established in its homes without its stability

50. Aspersions in nobleness are many
And not every complainer joins with his equal

51. Until the meeting point of both armies, and the Sword decides
There, its bran is known from its flour

52. There for us on the side of the West are brothers
Whose misery has known them with its afflictions

53. We wept for them, we the nearest, what they have grown accustomed to
Their tears shedding in adversity the concealment of their agonies

54. For if we complain of the injustice upon our people
Then remoteness from honor after its humiliation is inconceivable

55. You see the soul a debt standing in its ranks
Fulfilling for the wombs a portion of its debts

56. For the Levant, the Nile and Happy Tigris are not
The same during its joys and sorrows

57. By God, I will not give the Mecca heights to an unjust one
And never do I want the soul to desire its cup

58. When my sisters spend the night in Barqa in yearning
How can the eye sleep with its eyelids full?