لَعَمرُ أَبيكَ يا اِبنَ أَبي مُرَيٍّ

لَعَمرُ أَبيكَ يا اِبنَ أَبي مُرَيٍّ

لِغَيرُكَ مَن أَباحَ لَها الدِيارا

لِغَيرُكَ مَن أَباحَ لَها الدِيارا

By your father's life, O son of Abu Murayy,

By the life of your father, O son of Abi Muraih

it was someone other than you who opened the lands to them.

It was not for others that he made the lands lawful

أَباحَ لَها أَبارِقَ ذاتَ نَورٍ

أَباحَ لَها أَبارِقَ ذاتَ نَورٍ

تَرَعّى القَفّ مِنها وَالعَرارا

تَرَعّى القَفّ مِنها وَالعَرارا

He opened to them sandy, rocky hills bearing blossoms,

He made them lawful for flashing lights of radiance

where they graze on dry herbage and fragrant ‘arār flowers.

That pasture on the rugged hills and plains

بِحَمدِ اللَهِ ثُمَّ فَتى قُرَيشٍ

بِحَمدِ اللَهِ ثُمَّ فَتى قُرَيشٍ

أَبي وَهبٍ غَدَت بُطُناً غِزارا

أَبي وَهبٍ غَدَت بُطُناً غِزارا

Thanks to God, and then to the young man of Quraysh,

Praise be to God, then a man of Quraish

Abu Wahb, they became full-bellied and rich in milk.

Whose belly swelled, becoming abundantly fertile

أَباحَ لَها وَلا يُحمي عَلَيها

أَباحَ لَها وَلا يُحمي عَلَيها

إِذا ما كُنتُم سَنَةً جَزارا

إِذا ما كُنتُم سَنَةً جَزارا

He gave them free access, withholding no pasture from them,

He made it lawful, though none protected it

when, in a drought year, you were slaughterers.

When you were a year of drought and barrenness

فَتىً طالَت يَداهُ إِلى المَعالي

فَتىً طالَت يَداهُ إِلى المَعالي

وَطحطَحَتا المُقطَّعَة القِصارا

وَطحطَحَتا المُقطَّعَة القِصارا

A young man whose two hands reached the heights of honor,

A young man whose hands reached for the heights

and crushed the short, stunted hands.

And cut down the stunted and small