1. طُفْ بالمصارعِ وَاسْتَمِعْ نَجواها

    وَالْثِمْ بأفياءِ الجِنانِ ثَراها

    Go round the places where they fell and hear their whispers;

    and kiss their earth in the shade of Paradise's gardens.

  2. ضَاعَ الشَّذَى القُدسِيُّ في جَنَباتها

    فَانْشَقْ وَصِفْ لِلمُؤمنين شذاها

    The sacred fragrance has spread through their precincts;

    so breathe it in, and describe their fragrance to the faithful.

  3. حِلَلٌ يَروعُ جَلالُها ومنازلٌ

    مِن نُورِ ربِّ العالَمِينَ سَناها

    Abodes whose majesty inspires awe, and dwellings

    whose radiance comes from the light of the Lord of all worlds.

  4. ضَمّتْ حُماةَ الحقِّ ما عَرَف امْرُؤٌ

    عِزّاً لهم من دُونِهِ أو جاها

    They embraced the defenders of truth; no man has known

    honor or standing for them apart from it.

  5. الطّالِعينَ بهِ على أعدائهِ

    مَوْتاً إذا نشروا الجُنودَ طَواها

    Those who rose with it against its enemies,

    as death that folded their troops away whenever they deployed them;

  6. الخائِضينَ من الخُطوبِ غِمَارها

    المُصْطَلِينَ مِنَ الحُروبِ لَظاها

    who plunged into the depths of calamities,

    and braved the blazing fires of war;

  7. الباذِلَين لَدَى الفِدَاءِ نُفوسَهُمْ

    يَبغونَ عِند إلهِهمْ مَحياها

    who offered up their souls in sacrifice,

    seeking life for them with their God.

  8. ما آثروا في الأرضِ إلا دِينَهُ

    دِيناً ولا عَبدوا سِواهُ إلها

    On earth they chose none but His religion

    as their faith, and worshipped no god but Him.

  9. سَلكوا السَّبيلَ مُسدَّدين تُضيئهُ

    آيُ المُفصَّل يَتبعونَ هُداها

    They trod the path, rightly guided, illuminated

    by the verses of al-Mufassal, whose guidance they followed.

  10. قَومٌ هُم اتّخذوا الشَّهادةَ بُغيةً

    لا يبتغونَ لَدَى الجِهادِ سِوَاها

    A people who made martyrdom their goal,

    seeking nothing else in struggle for the faith.

  11. هُمْ في حِمَى الإيمانِ أوّلُ صخرةٍ

    فَسَلِ الصخورَ أما عرفن قُواها

    Within faith's sanctuary, they are the first rock;

    ask the rocks: did they not know its strength?

  12. حَملتْ جِبالَ الحقِّ في دنيا الهُدَى

    بيضاً شواهقَ ما تُنالُ ذُراها

    It bore the mountains of truth in the world of guidance,

    white and towering, their summits beyond reach.

  13. تُؤْتِي الممالكَ والشُّعوبَ حيَاتَها

    وتُقيمُ من أمجادِها وعُلاها

    It gives kingdoms and peoples their life,

    and builds up their glories and their grandeur.

  14. ذَهبتْ تُرفرِفُ في مَسابحِ عزِّها

    ومَضَتْ يَفوتُ مدَى النُّسورِ مَداها

    It went fluttering through the expanses of its glory,

    and flew on, its reach surpassing the range of eagles.

  15. تَجرِي الرياحُ الهُوجُ طَوْعَ قَضائِها

    وتَخافُها فَتحيدُ عن مَجراها

    The raging winds run obedient to its decree,

    and fear it, swerving from its course.

  16. طافَ الغمامُ مُهلِّلاً بظلالِها

    فَسقتْهُ مِن بَركاتِها وسقَاها

    The clouds circled its shadows, chanting praise;

    so it watered them from its blessings, and they watered it.

  17. شُهداءَ بدرٍ أنتمُ المثلُ الذي

    بَلغَ المدى بعد المدى فتناهَى

    Martyrs of Badr, you are the example that

    reached limit after limit, then attained the utmost.

  18. عَلَّمتُمُ الناسَ الكفاحَ فأقبلوا

    مِلْءَ الحوادثِ يَدفعونَ أذاها

    You taught people to struggle, and they came forth,

    in the thick of calamities, warding off their harm.

  19. أمّا الفِداءُ فقد قَضيتُمْ حَقَّهُ

    وجَعلتموهُ شَريعةً نَرضاها

    As for sacrifice, you have paid its due,

    and made it a law we accept.

  20. مَن رامَ تفسيرَ الحياةِ لقومِهِ

    فَدمُ الشّهيدِ يُبينُ عن مَعناها

    Whoever seeks to explain life to his people—

    the martyr's blood makes its meaning clear.

  21. لولا الدِّماءُ تُراقُ لم نرَ أمّةً

    بلغَتْ من المجدِ العَريضِ مُناها

    Without blood being shed, we would have seen no nation

    attain its hopes of vast glory.

  22. أدنى الرجالِ من المهالك مَن إذا

    عَرضتْ منايا الخالدينَ أباها

    The man nearest to destruction is he who, when

    the deaths of the immortals are offered, refuses them.

  23. وأَجْلُّ من رفعَ الممالكَ مظهراً

    بانٍ من المُهَجِ السِّماحِ بناها

    And noblest of those who raised kingdoms in outward splendor

    is a builder who built them of generous souls.

  24. كم أُمّةٍ لم تُوقَ عادِيةَ الرَّدى

    لولا الذي اقْتَحَمَ الرَّدى فوقاها

    How many a nation would not have been spared death's onslaught,

    but for one who braved death and shielded it!

  25. تَسمو الشُّعوبُ بكلِّ حرٍّ ماجدٍ

    وجَبتْ عليه حقوقُها فقضاها

    Peoples rise through every free, noble man

    bound to honor their claims, which he fulfilled.

  26. ما أكرمَ الأبطالَ يَومَ تَفيَّأوا

    ظُلَل المنايا يبتغون جَناها

    How noble the heroes, the day they took shelter

    beneath the canopies of death, seeking its fruit!

  27. راحوا من الدّمِ في مَطارِفَ أشرقتْ

    حُمْرُ الجراح بها فكنَّ حِلاها

    They departed in mantles of blood, in which shone

    crimson wounds that became their ornaments.

  28. لو أنّهم نُشِرُوا رَأيتَ كُلومَهم

    تَدْمَى كأنّكَ في القتالِ تراها

    Were they resurrected, you would see their wounds

    bleeding, as though you saw them in battle.

  29. ليسوا وإن وَرَدُوا المنيَّةَ لِلأُلى

    غَمَر البِلَى وُرّادَهَم أشباها

    Though they have entered death, they are not like those

    whose dead decay has swallowed up.

  30. هُمْ عِندَ ربِّك يُرزَقون فَحيِّهم

    وَصِفِ الحياةَ لأنْفُسٍ تَهواها

    They are nourished with your Lord; salute them,

    and describe life to souls that yearn for it.

  31. اللهُ باركَها بِبَدْرٍ وقعةً

    كلُّ الفُتوحِ الغُرِّ مِن جَدْواها

    God blessed it at Badr—a battle

    from whose bounty come all radiant conquests.

  32. مَنعتْ ذِمارَ الحقِّ حِينَ أثارَها

    وحَمتْ لِواءَ اللهِ حين دَعاها

    It defended truth's sanctity when He roused it,

    and guarded God's banner when He summoned it.

  33. بَخِلَ الزمانُ فكنت من شُعرائها

    لو شاءَ رَبِّي كنتُ من قَتلاها

    Time was miserly, so I became one of its poets;

    had my Lord willed, I would have been among its slain.

  34. كم دولةٍ للشّركِ زُلزِلَ عَرْشها

    بدماءِ بَدْرٍ واسْتُبِيحَ حماها

    How many a realm of idolatry had its throne shaken

    by Badr's blood, and its sanctuary overrun,

  35. في دولةٍ للمسلمين تشوقُهم

    أيّامُها وتهَزُّهم ذِكراها

    under the Muslims' dominion—they are stirred to longing

    by its days, and moved by its memory.

  36. يا ويحَ لِلأممِ الضِّعافِ اتَنْقَضِي

    دُنيا الشُّعوبِ وما انْقَضتْ بلواها

    Alas for the weak nations! Will it end—

    the world of peoples—while their ordeal endures?

  37. أُممٌ هَوالِكُ ما لَمستُ جِراحَها

    إلا بكتْ وبكيتُ من جَرّاها

    Doomed nations—never did I touch their wounds

    but they wept, and I wept on their account.

  38. لم أدرِ إذ ذهبَ الزَّمانُ بريحِها

    ماذا من القَدَرِ المُتَاحِ دَهاها

    I did not know, when time bore away their wind of might,

    what allotted fate had struck them.

  39. إنّ الذي خَلَقَ السّهامَ لِمثلِها

    جَمعَ المصائبَ كُلَّها فَرماها

    Indeed, the One who made arrows for their like

    gathered all calamities and hurled them at those nations.