1. لقد جاء نصر اللَه وانشرح القلب

    لأنّ بفتح القرم هان لنا الصعب

    Indeed, God's victory has come, and the heart has opened in joy.

    For, with the conquest of Crimea, hardship became easy for us.

  2. وقد ذلت الاعداء في كل جانب

    وضاق عليهم من فسيح الفضا رحب

    And the enemies have been humbled on every side.

    And the vast expanse of open space grew narrow around them.

  3. بحرب تشيب الطفل من فرط هولها

    يكاد يذوب الصخر والصارم العضب

    Through a war whose immense horror turns a child's hair gray,

    Rock and the keen-edged sword all but melt.

  4. إذا رعدت فيها المدافع أمطرت

    كؤس منون قصرت دونها السحب

    When the cannons thundered within it, they rained down

    Cups of death that the clouds could not match.

  5. تجرّع آل الأصفر الموت أحمرا

    وللبيض في مسودّها ما تهم نهب

    The sons of al-Asfar gulped down crimson death,

    And in their darkened crowns lay plunder for the white blades.

  6. تراهم سكارى للظبا في رؤسهم

    غناء ومن صرف المنايا لهم شرب

    You see them drunk; within their heads the sword-edges have

    A song, and their drink is the undiluted draught of death.

  7. إذا وقعت ذات البروج وأبصروا

    بها السور يتلو السجدة انفطر القلب

    When the towered fortress fell, and they saw

    Its rampart reciting 'Prostration,' the heart split apart.

  8. وان هز لدن الرمح غصن قوامه

    فكل دم فيهم إلى قدّه صب

    And if the supple lance sways the bough of its form,

    Then every drop of blood in them is enamored of its stature.

  9. وما احمرّ خدّ السيف إلا وأصبحت

    رقابهم شوقاً لتقبيله تصبو

    And no sooner did the sword's cheek blush than

    Their necks, in longing, yearned to kiss it.

  10. وقد غرّهم من قبل كثرة جيشهم

    فلم يغن عنهم ذلك الجيش والركب

    And their army's great numbers had deluded them before,

    Yet that army and the riders availed them nothing.

  11. وولوا يجدّون الفرار بعسكر

    تحكم فيه القتل والاسر والسلب

    And they turned, hastening to flee with an army

    Over which slaughter, capture, and plunder held sway.

  12. وأين يسومون النجاة وخلفهم

    تسابقت الخيل المسوّمة الشهب

    And where could they seek escape, when behind them

    The marked, gray steeds raced one another?

  13. ولو سلموا من مرهف السيف أو خلوا

    بأنفسهم يولاً لأفناهم الرعب

    And even if they escaped the keen-edged sword or were left

    Alone for a day, terror would have annihilated them.

  14. فقد راعهم من آل عثمان دولة

    مجيدية دانت لها الترك والعرب

    For a state of the House of Osman struck terror into them—

    Majidian, to which Turks and Arabs submitted.

  15. وجاء بشير النصر يشدو مؤرّخا

    لقد جاء نصر اللَه وانشرح القلب

    And victory's herald came, singing a chronogram:

    Indeed, God's victory has come, and the heart has opened in joy.