نَفَذت نُفوذُ السَهمِ لكِنَّهُ الرَّدى

نَفَذت نُفوذُ السَهمِ لكِنَّهُ الرَّدى

بِأَسلافِ فهرٍ مِنكَ أَلحق نافِذا

بِأَسلافِ فهرٍ مِنكَ أَلحق نافِذا

You passed through like an arrow, yet it was death

The arrow's penetration was deep, yet it caused devastation

You have penetrated like the flight of an arrow, yet it is destruction,

that joined a passing one from you to Fihr’s forebears.

With ancestors of many conquests, it remained penetrating

Joining men to the ancestors of Fihr more effectively than you.

أَنابيقُ هَداجينَ بَعدَكَ ها هُنا

أَنابيقُ هَداجينَ بَعدَكَ ها هُنا

مَتى لُمتَهُم في اللَومِ أَلحَ قَنافِذا

مَتى لُمتَهُم في اللَومِ أَلحَ قَنافِذا

Here after you are alembics of doddering men;

After you, O dove of gracefully swaying walk

Mere shambling fools are what remain right here in your wake;

whenever you reproach them, in that reproach I revile hedgehogs.

When did I ever blame them? Rather I remained penetrating

When you reproach them for their vice, they bristle stubbornly like hedgehogs.