1. We mingled blood with tears of sorrow
Leaving no room for mercy

2. The weapon that most harms a man is the tears that flow from him
When the flames of war are kindled by the swords

3. Woe to you, O sons of Islam, after you
Are events that bring the atoms back to the wholes

4. Living in the shadow of security and bliss
And a life as gentle as the soft sand dunes

5. How can the eye sleep when its eyelids are filled
With delusions that keep every sleeper awake

6. While your brothers in Damascus sacrifice their lives
As backs for whips or bellies for spears

7. The Romans humiliate them while you
Drag the train of disgrace like the submissive

8. So much blood has been shed and from chaste women
Whose beauty hides in shame behind the veils

9. The white swords bloodied, reddening the wolves
And the hilltops bloodstained by the crushing blows

10. Between the stabbing and striking is a pause
In which children will gray like the newcomers

11. These are wars - he who is absent from their turmoil
Will regret it later, repentant in years

12. The pagans have seized sharp swords
That will be sheathed in skulls and bones

13. The adulterer in Taybah almost cries out
Oh Hashimites! In the loudest voice

14. I see my nation not taking up arms for their religion
Their spears weak, their faith unstable

15. They avoid the fire fearing harm
Not considering dishonor a lasting wound

16. Are the chieftains of the Arabs content with this humiliation
While the chiefs of the non-Arabs overlook such disgrace

17. If only when they did not defend zealously
The faith, they were jealous for the sanctities

18. And if they were ascetic for reward when war called out
Why didn’t they join it greedily for the spoils

19. If those snub-nosed cowards have surrendered to humiliation
They did not even sneeze except with restrained breath

20. Leave us while war greedily desires us
With the glances of ferocious eagles

21. It awaits a chance to pounce on us
While the Romans eye us with clenched fists

22. If you are still not angry after this
We will pelt our enemies with atrocities