عوجا نحي ديار الحي بالسند

عوجا نحي ديار الحي بالسند

وهل بتلك الديار اليوم من أحدِ

وهل بتلك الديار اليوم من أحدِ

Turn aside, you two; let us greet the clan’s dwellings at al-Sind.

I inclined my abode from the neighborhood of joy towards Sindh

And is anyone in those dwellings today?

Is there anyone left in those dwellings today?

أحين شيم فلم يترك لهم ترة

أحين شيم فلم يترك لهم ترة

سيف تلقده الرئبال ذو اللبد

سيف تلقده الرئبال ذو اللبد

Was it when it was sheathed, leaving them no wrong to avenge—

I revived its features but he left no trace for them

A sword the shaggy-maned lion had girded on—

A sword unsheathed by a lion with a glorious beard

سللتموه عليكم يا بني حسن

سللتموه عليكم يا بني حسن

ما أن لكم من فلاح آخر الأبد

ما أن لكم من فلاح آخر الأبد

That you drew it against yourselves, O sons of Hasan?

You slipped it from your grip, O sons of Hassan

No success is yours, to the very end of time.

You have no other success until the end of time

وأصبحت لبني العباس صافية

وأصبحت لبني العباس صافية

يجدع آناف أهل البغي والحسد

يجدع آناف أهل البغي والحسد

And it became the uncontested possession of the sons of al-Abbas.

And it became perfectly clear for the Abbasids

He cuts off the noses of the rebellious and envious.

Severing the noses of the people of tyranny and envy

وأصبحت كلهاة اللّيثِ في فمِه

وأصبحت كلهاة اللّيثِ في فمِه

ومن يحاوِل شيئاً في فم الأسَد

ومن يحاوِل شيئاً في فم الأسَد

And it became like the lion’s uvula in his mouth;

And it became like a lioness's throat in its jaws

And who would seek anything in the lion’s mouth?

And whoever attempts anything in the jaws of a lion

بعذاريها أناساً نام حلمهم

بعذاريها أناساً نام حلمهم

عنا وعنك وعنها نومة الفهد

عنا وعنك وعنها نومة الفهد

By its two cheek-straps—people whose judgment slept,

Putting to sleep people whose dreams about us, you and it

Heedless of us, of you, and of it, in a cheetah’s sleep.

Were like the slumber of a leopard