1. أَشاقَكَ من عَهدِ الخَليطِ مَغانِ

    عَفَت مُنذُ أَحوالٍ خَلَونَ ثَمانِ

    Have dwellings from your companions’ days stirred your longing,

    effaced these eight years now gone by?

  2. أَأَن أَبصَرَت عَيناكَ داراً مَحَلَّةً

    بِجِزعِ الحَلا عَيناكَ تَبتَدِرانِ

    Is it because your eyes saw a dwelling, a campsite,

    at the bend of al-Hala, that your eyes race to weep?

  3. أَقولُ وَقَد هاجَ اِشتِياقي حَمائِمٌ

    قِفا تُسعِداني أَيُّها الرَجُلانِ

    I say, as doves have stirred my longing,

    “Stop and console me, O you two men!

  4. نَشَدتُكُما اللَهَ الَّذي أَنتُما لَهُ

    وَدَمهُ مَنظورٌ أَما تَرَياني

    I adjure you both by God, to whom you both belong,

    and his blood is watched over—do you two not see me?

  5. أَلَم تَعلَما أَنَّ الدُموعَ إِذا جَرَت

    دَواءُ صُداعِ الرَأسِ وَالخَفَقانِ

    Do you two not know that tears, when they flow,

    are a cure for headache and palpitations?

  6. أَلا أَبلِغا تَيمَ بنَ مُرَّةَ وَاِحسِنا

    رِسالَةَ لا فَذٍّ وَلا مُتَوانِ

    Convey to Taym ibn Murrah—and deliver well—

    a message from one neither alone nor remiss:

  7. بِأَنَّكُمُ لَم تَأخُذوا لِنُفوسِكُم

    بِما يَرتَضيهِ مِنكُمُ المَلَكانِ

    that you have not chosen for yourselves

    what the two angels would accept from you.

  8. هَلُمّوا إِلى دينِ النَبِيِّ مُحَمَّدٍ

    وَلَو كانَ في أَقصى جِبالِ عُمانِ

    Come to the faith of the Prophet Muhammad,

    even if it were in the remotest mountains of Oman.

  9. تَراها وَلَم تُضرَب بِسَوطٍ وَلَم تَخَف

    تُراوِحُ بَينَ السَدوِ وَالجَمَزانِ

    You see her, though she has neither been whipped nor felt fear,

    alternating between long strides and a bounding trot,

  10. كَأَنَّ لَها هِرّاً بِمَعقِدِ غَرزِها

    إِذا خُلِطَ الإِرقالُ بِالوَخَدانِ

    as though a cat were at the fastening of her stirrup,

    when swift trotting mingles with rapid strides.

  11. مَحَضتُكُمُ نُصحي فَلا تَقبَلونَهُ

    جَزاكُم إِلهي نُصحَكُم وَجَزاني

    I gave you my honest counsel, but you do not accept it.

    May my God repay you for your counsel, and repay me.

  12. فَاَحمَدُ مَولايَ الجَليلَ فَإِنَّهُ

    بِنِعمَتِهِ ما اِنتَاشَني وَهَداني

    So I praise my majestic Lord, for it is

    by His grace that He rescued and guided me.

  13. وَما زالَ ذو العَرشِ العَلِيُّ بِدينِهِ

    حَفِيّاً فَفيمَ الآنَ تَمتَرِيانِ

    And the Most High, Lord of the Throne, has always held His faith

    in tender care—so what do you two now doubt?

  14. أَلَم تَرَيا وَالفَيلَقانِ كِلاهُما

    بِبَدرٍ وَثارَ النَقعُ يَعتَرِكانِ

    Did you two not see—while both armies

    fought at Badr and the dust rose—

  15. إِلى لُطفِهِ بِالمُؤمِنينَ وَنَصرِهِ

    لَهُم وَتَوَلّى الخَذلُ كُلَّ هِدانِ

    His kindness to the believers and His aid

    for them, while abandonment overtook every coward?

  16. وَأَودى أَبو جَهلٍ وَهَكَّ بِروحِهِ

    إِلى النارِ زِبنِيّانِ يَبتَدِرانِ

    Abu Jahl perished, and his soul was hurled

    into the Fire by two hell-wardens racing one another.

  17. وَكَم مِن كَفورٍ غادِرٍ أُنزِلَت بِهِ الـ

    ـنَوازِلُ لَمّا زَلَّتِ القَدَمانِ

    And how many a treacherous unbeliever was struck by the

    calamities, when both his feet slipped!

  18. فَغودِرَ مَصروعاً تُفيضُ نِساؤُهُ

    عَلَيهِ دُموعاً جَمَّةَ الهَمَلانِ

    So he was left struck down, his women pouring

    over him tears in copious streams.

  19. سَلَبناهُ دُنياهُ وَأَفضى بِدينِهِ

    إِلى حَرِّ نارِ جاحِمٍ وَدُخانِ

    We stripped him of his worldly life, and with his faith he passed

    into the heat of blazing fire and smoke.

  20. فَذاكَ لَكُم ما دُمتُمُ وَأَراكُمُ

    تُجيبونَ مَن نادى بِكُلِ أَذانِ

    That, then, awaits you while you persist—and I see you

    answering whoever calls, at every summons.”