يَقولُ أُناسٌ في حَبيناءَ عايَنوا

يَقولُ أُناسٌ في حَبيناءَ عايَنوا

عِمارَةَ رَحلي مِن طَريفٍ وَتالِدِ

عِمارَةَ رَحلي مِن طَريفٍ وَتالِدِ

Some people in Habina say, having seen

People in Habina saw the adornment of my saddlebags

My baggage brimming with newly acquired and inherited wealth:

From fine craft and stitching, new and antique.

أَصادَفتَ كَنزاً أَم صَبَحتَ بِغارَةٍ

أَصادَفتَ كَنزاً أَم صَبَحتَ بِغارَةٍ

ذَوي غِرَّةٍ حاميهُمُ غَيرُ شاهِدِ

ذَوي غِرَّةٍ حاميهُمُ غَيرُ شاهِدِ

“Did you chance upon a treasure, or make a dawn raid on

"Did you find buried treasure or raid by night

Unsuspecting folk whose protector was absent?”

Hotheads whose rage boiled, no one to curb it?"

فَقُلتُ لَهُم لا ذا وَلا ذاكَ دَيدَني

فَقُلتُ لَهُم لا ذا وَلا ذاكَ دَيدَني

وَلَكِنَّني أَقبَلتُ مِن عِندِ خالِدِ

وَلَكِنَّني أَقبَلتُ مِن عِندِ خالِدِ

I told them, “Neither this nor that is my way;

I said, "It's neither this nor that, my way

Rather, I have come from Khalid.”

Rather I came from being with Khaled."

جَذَبتُ نَداهُ غُدوَةَ السَبتِ جَذبَةً

جَذَبتُ نَداهُ غُدوَةَ السَبتِ جَذبَةً

فَخَرَّ صَريعاً بَينَ أَيدي القَصائِدِ

فَخَرَّ صَريعاً بَينَ أَيدي القَصائِدِ

I gave his bounty a single tug on Saturday morning,

I pulled his rope on Saturday dawn, pulled hard,

And he fell, struck down before the odes.

He fell dead amid odes I had composed.

فَأُبتُ بِنُعمى مِنهُ بَيضاءَ لَدنَةٍ

فَأُبتُ بِنُعمى مِنهُ بَيضاءَ لَدنَةٍ

كَثيرَةِ قَرحٍ في قُلوبِ الحَواسِدِ

كَثيرَةِ قَرحٍ في قُلوبِ الحَواسِدِ

So I returned with a blessing from him, white and supple,

So I was blessed by his bounty, pure and plentiful,

Inflicting many wounds on envious hearts.

Wounds in the hearts of the envious multitudes.

هِيَ الناهِدُ الرَيا إِذا نِعمَةُ اِمرِئٍ

هِيَ الناهِدُ الرَيا إِذا نِعمَةُ اِمرِئٍ

سُواهُ غَدَت مَمسوحَةً غَيرَ ناهِدِ

سُواهُ غَدَت مَمسوحَةً غَيرَ ناهِدِ

It is the full-breasted, plump maiden, while the bounty of a man

It is the star of good fortune when a man's bounty

Other than him has grown flat-chested, not full-breasted.

Makes all others but it seem effaced, no longer radiant.

فَزَعتُ عِقابَ الأَرضِ وَالشِعرِ مادِحاً

فَزَعتُ عِقابَ الأَرضِ وَالشِعرِ مادِحاً

لَهُ فَاِرتَقى بي في عِقابِ المَحامِدِ

لَهُ فَاِرتَقى بي في عِقابِ المَحامِدِ

I took to the mountain passes of earth and poetry, praising

I climbed the heights of earth and poetry praising

Him; then he bore me up through the passes of praiseworthy deeds.

Him, so climbed by his power the peaks of praise.

فَأَلبَسَني مِن أُمَّهاتِ تِلادِهِ

فَأَلبَسَني مِن أُمَّهاتِ تِلادِهِ

وَأَلبَستُهُ مِن أُمَّهاتِ قَلائِدي

وَأَلبَستُهُ مِن أُمَّهاتِ قَلائِدي

So he clothed me in the choicest of his inherited treasures,

He clothed me in the mothers of his lineages noble,

And I clothed him in the choicest of my necklaces.

I clothed him in the mothers of my necklaces and jewels.