1. You were a channel for the oppressed,
And your pen was rarely soft.

2. So the zealous forgave those dearest,
And the lion left its den.

3. With a heart bearing the title of Arabism,
And pilgrimage dwelling in instability.

4. They shouted the elegy yet not hinted,
With people still incredulous.

5. O liberator of the wronged people,
And spreader of the buried truth.

6. And bearer of the stumbling of a blinded nation,
Rising with it across generations.

7. Son of noble kings, father of kings,
And intermediary of the best of messengers.

8. Disease and death can take him,
And calamity can afflict him.

9. And mortality can touch him,
This, by the life of the suspicious!

10. Death is the end of all living,
Despite the noses of the deniers.

11. So I seek refuge for my blaspheming soul,
In the decree of the Lord of the Worlds.

12. But he is the great misfortune,
That stuns the minds of the absolutes.

13. And bewilders the dreams of the gods,
And stuns those convinced.

14. How can one escape its impact,
And consciousness with an imprisoned exile?

15. Death is a truth without dispute,
And doubting it is blindness.

16. And the duty on a day of unveiled truth,
Is the stillness of the sorrowful.

17. If the ways of grief would be content,
Without excessive lamenting we'd be indebted

18. Lest they gloat in your conclusion,
A wink for the gloaters.

19. O Lord, disappoint, like You disappointed,
The fate of the sincere.

20. He is the sign of mighty victory,
And the epitome of clear triumph.

21. How many masters led nations,
And governed them in eras past.

22. Whose contemporaries counted them,
Amongst the stumblers.

23. Until when the years passed,
The veils lifted from the eyes.

24. They knew him at the peak of guidance,
Amongst the rows of reformers.

25. And saw him with eternal victory,
He had attained amongst the conquerors.

26. So they raced from their ignorance,
And disobedience asking forgiveness.

27. This apotheosizing him, and that,
Counting him among the messengers.

28. You taught us how glory,
Is with the love of our nation.

29. And the most precious you possessed,
What glorifies the kings.

30. Is in supporting the highest ideals,
However cheap it becomes.

31. You risked the precious crown,
To protect the strong throne.

32. The Aqsa Mosque and the right,
Of your father's sons in Palestine.

33. No wonder the first of the two Qiblas,
If you chose it and kissed its soil.

34. You remained amongst its protectors,
Among the early foremost.

35. Did I err or do right,
In your fair method of benefaction?

36. Two matters will not be considered,
By your honest historian.

37. It suffices that you were,
Noble, bright of face.

38. You didn't drink when Balfour,
Offered you homelands for religion.

39. O you who tread the path of kingship,
A path none have treaded but the select.

40. Have you seen how the throne was surrounded,
By the Sustainer with the pleading?

41. Until the trustee's merit came,
Above the merit of the intimate.

42. Until the truth came out,
And the gold was filtered.

43. And the tempest of events uncovered,
The frailty of who thought himself stout.

44. Those who the day before leaned on him,
Swayed distancing themselves.

45. So their loyalty came to you,
Unlike the sterility of the familiar.

46. While you in Cyprus,
No disorder or leaning.

47. Except the sadness of memory, and choking,
Of nostalgia and yearning.

48. For the plains, al-Qweira and ash-Sharah,
And how is the Bani 'Ammon plateau?

49. And the mountains of Ajloun, are there,
Meadows facilitating visitors?

50. Nothing after the groves of palms,
Delights viewers.

51. Where are those who in Mikhliyyan,
Guard you at night?

52. And their chant, your blondness,
Has an echo.

53. If you said you were their lord,
You'd see them believers in you.

54. And the crown is lost,
When supported by hypocrites.

55. Like the staff if bent by force,
With effort and frowns.

56. Is Famagusta closer to them,
Than Hugoun and al-Jowoun?

57. So they came to you in the days of Hejaz,
Visitors every day.

58. Expressing their love, loyalty,
And faithfulness to you.

59. Until time turned against you,
So they lurked away.

60. Those who you had faced,
Turned away.

61. And your most loyal betrays,
And your truest perjures.

62. And those you denied,
Gloat at your fate.

63. A lesson learnt, Abu al-Muluuk,
So instruct the youth with its events.

64. May God send blessings on you, son
Of the purest and most virtuous parents.

65. And those who fulfilled your covenant,
Working for Arabism.

66. In the field of martyrs,
Who sacrificed for their religion.

67. In the sands of Beirut, in Acre,
In the bitterness of prisons.

68. In the Goutas, and Iraq,
And the east of Maysaloun.

69. Scent their glory,
Unparalleled in glory.

70. Excuse me, if Al-Hussein travels,
Amongst them in haste.

71. To live between the sedentary,
And reside between the dead.

72. And death has cast at him,
The sword of the eternals.

73. Al-Hussein was an idea,
That grieved continuation with it.

74. Not extreme old age,
Removed it, nor years passed.

75. So let Allah be feared by those,
Who rushed to eulogize him.

76. Grieving him is more deserving,
Than the deceased who lost him.

77. O flag which Al-Hussein spread,
Over the armored battalions.

78. So they came to support its symbol,
From every dune dispersing.

79. And they leapt under its shade,
Into the pool of destruction leaping.

80. Death before death,
When their awakening erupted.

81. Time hoisted for them the banner,
Of victory where they fought.

82. So look at the Turks in the expanse,
Of the countries retreating.

83. And look at the desert teeming,
With those who are the ones.

84. And in every house a Shurayhbl,
And in every neighborhood an Artoob.

85. The lion of the deserts, no enticement swayed them,
From its fortified strongholds.

86. Until they purchased with their blood,
Freedom of the wronged homeland.

87. And its independence, were it not,
For the machinations of the covert.

88. O flag! Such was its disposition,
Amongst the early foremost.

89. After your master Al-Hussein,
It protected the majestic.

90. From what Allah had decreed,
We belong to Allah and to Him we shall return.