1. سِيرِي الهُوْيْنَى دُومَة الجندلِ

    أمعنتِ في الظُّلمِ ولم تُجملي

    Tread gently, Dumat al-Jandal.

    You went too far in injustice and showed no restraint.

  2. أكُلُّ مَن مرَّ خفيفَ الخُطى

    تَرمِينَهُ بالفادحِ المُثقل

    Must everyone who passes with light steps

    be assailed by you with grievous, crushing harm?

  3. المسلمون استصرخوا ربَّهم

    فاستعصمِي منه ولن تفعلي

    The Muslims cried to their Lord for help;

    so find protection against Him—you never will.

  4. مضى رسولُ اللهِ في جحفلٍ

    ما مثلُه في البأسِ من جحفل

    God's Messenger marched amid a mighty host,

    no host its equal in martial might.

  5. يمشي إذا اسودّت وجوهُ الوغى

    في ساطعٍ من وحيهِ المُنزَل

    He walks, when the faces of battle grow black,

    amid the radiance of His revelation sent down.

  6. لولا الذي استعظمتِ من أمرهِ

    لم يُهزمِ القومُ ولم تُخذلي

    But for what you deemed so mighty in his cause,

    the people would not have been routed, nor you abandoned.

  7. أهلوكِ طاروا خَوْفَ تقتالِه

    فأيُّهم بالرُّعبِ لم يُقتلِ

    Your people flew in fear of fighting him;

    which of them was not slain by terror?

  8. كلٌّ له من نفسهِ ضاربٌ

    إن يُدبرِ الخوفُ بهِ يُقبلِ

    Each has a striker within his own soul;

    if fear retreats, that striker brings it back.

  9. تلك لعمري من أعاجيبهم

    ويبتلي ربُّكِ من يبتلي

    Such, by my life, are some of their marvels;

    and your Lord tests whomever He tests.

  10. شرَّدَهم مَذكورُ من دارهِمِ

    لا كنتِ من دارٍ ومن منزلِ

    Madhkur drove them from their home—

    may you be no home, no dwelling!

  11. هلّا رعوا إذ أدبروا جُفَّلاً

    ما رِيعَ من أنعامكِ الجُفَّل

    Why, as they fled in panic, did they not tend

    the frightened beasts of your stampeding herds?

  12. ماذا يريد الجيشُ من عَوْرَةٍ

    حلَّتْ من الذِلّةِ في موئل

    What does the army seek from a defenseless place

    that has found in abasement a refuge?

  13. لولا المروءات وسلطانُها

    لانقضَّ أعلاها على الأسفلِ

    But for noble virtues and their sway,

    its heights would have crashed down upon its depths.

  14. شريعةُ الإسلامِ في أهلهِ

    أهلِ الحجا والشرفِ الأطولِ

    Such is Islam's law among its people,

    people of wisdom and the loftiest honor,

  15. وسُنَّةُ المختارِ من ربِّهِ

    والمصطفى من خلقهِ المُرسَلِ

    and the way of the one chosen by his Lord,

    and elected from His creation, sent as a messenger.

  16. جاءَ بملءِ الأرضِ مِن نورهِ

    والنّاسُ من حيرى ومن ضُلّل

    He came with his light filling the earth,

    while people were either bewildered or astray.

  17. لا عُذرَ للمصروفِ عن رُشدِهِ

    لم يَبْقَ من داجٍ ولا مجهَل

    No excuse remains for one turned from his right path;

    no dark or unknown place remains.

  18. مَعالِمُ الإيمانُ وضّاحةٌ

    والحقُّ مِلءُ العينِ للمُجتلي

    The landmarks of faith are clear and bright,

    and truth fills the beholder's eye.

  19. إيهٍ قنيصَ اللّهِ في حبلهِ

    ظَفِرتَ بالأمنِ فلا تَوْجَلِ

    Come now, God's quarry in His snare:

    you have won safety; do not be afraid.

  20. جئتَ مُعافىً في يَدَيْ صائدٍ

    لم يخدعِ الصيدَ ولم يَخْتَلِ

    You came unharmed into the hands of a hunter

    who neither deceived the quarry nor used guile.

  21. أقبِلْ فهذا خيرُ من أبصرت

    عيناك في الجيشِ وفي المحفلِ

    Come forward: this is the finest ever beheld

    by your eyes, in army or assembly.

  22. هذا الذي أعرضَ عن حقِّهِ

    قَومُكَ من باغٍ ومن مُبطِلِ

    This is he whose rightful claim was rejected

    by your people, aggressors and upholders of falsehood.

  23. لو أنّهم جاؤوه فاستغفروا

    رأوا سجايا المُنعِمِ المفضلِ

    Had they come to him and sought forgiveness,

    they would have seen the virtues of a generous benefactor.

  24. أسلمتَ تأبى دِينهم أوّلاً

    فمرحباً بالمسلمِ الأوّل

    You embraced Islam first, rejecting their creed;

    so welcome to the first Muslim!

  25. عُيَيْنَةُ المغبونُ في نفسهِ

    ماذا جِنِى من دائِه المُعضِلِ

    Uyaynah, cheated in his own soul—

    what did he reap from his intractable malady?

  26. حَمَّلهُ ما لو تلقّت ذُرى

    مُستَشرفِ العرنينِ لم يَحمل

    It burdened him with what even the peaks

    of a lofty-crested mountain could not bear.

  27. ألوَى به الجدبُ فأفضى إلى

    أكنافِ وادٍ مُعشِبٍ مُبقلِ

    Drought harried him, and he came to

    the sheltered reaches of a grassy, herb-rich valley,

  28. من أنعُم الغيثِ الكثيرِ الجدا

    ومكرماتِ العارضِ المسبل

    through the blessings of rain abundant in bounty

    and the generous gifts of a cloud pouring down.

  29. حتى إذا أعجبه شأنهُ

    وغرّه من مالِه ما يلي

    Then, when his circumstances pleased him

    and the wealth he held beguiled him,

  30. أتى بها شنعاءَ مكروهةً

    من سيّئاتِ الأحمقِ الأثول

    he committed a hideous, hateful deed,

    one of the misdeeds of a witless fool.

  31. بئس المغيرُ انقضَّ في غِرّةً

    على لقاحِ الغابةِ الهمَّل

    What a vile raider, swooping in an unguarded moment

    upon al-Ghabah's unattended milch camels!

  32. ما وقعةُ اللصِ بمأمونةٍ

    ولا أذاةُ الضَّرِعِ الذُّمَّلِ

    A thief's assault is not to be trusted,

    nor the harm of a feeble, contemptible man.

  33. آذى رسولَ اللهِ في مالهِ

    وآثرَ الغدرَ ولم يحفِلِ

    He harmed God's Messenger in his property,

    and chose treachery, giving no heed.

  34. لو ارتضى دينَ الهدى صانه

    وزانه بالخُلُقِ الأمثل

    Had he accepted the faith of guidance, it would have guarded him

    and adorned him with the noblest character.

  35. يا أمَّ سعدٍ لستِ من همّهِ

    سعدٌ عن الأهلين في مَعزلِ

    O mother of Sa'd, you are not his concern;

    Sa'd is far removed from his kin.

  36. إنْ أهلُهُ إلاّ الأُلى استوطنوا

    دارَ الوغَى في دُومةِ الجندلِ

    His kin are only those who have made their home

    in the abode of battle at Dumat al-Jandal.

  37. لا تذرفي الدّمعَ على راحلٍ

    في اللّهِ لولا اللَّهُ لم يرحل

    Do not shed tears for one who set out

    in God's cause; but for God, he would not have gone.

  38. واستقبلي الموتَ على هَوْلِه

    إنّي أراهُ سائِغَ المنهل

    And face death, despite its terrors;

    I see its watering-place as sweet to drink from.

  39. ظَمِئتِ من سعدٍ إلى نظرةٍ

    تُطفِئُ حَرَّ اللاعجِ المشعَل

    You thirsted for a glimpse of Sa'd

    to quench the heat of searing, blazing anguish.

  40. رَوَّاكِ ربُّ النّاسِ من سرحةٍ

    ألقى عليها ظِلَّهُ من عَل

    The Lord of humankind has slaked your thirst from a spreading tree

    over which He cast His shade from on high,

  41. تُؤتي الجَنى كالأرْيِ طِيباً إذا

    كان الجنَى كالصّابِ والحنظل

    yielding fruit as sweet as honey when

    the fruit is like bitter sap and colocynth.

  42. صلاةُ أصفى النّاسِ ممّا سقى

    أفنانَها ذو النّائلِ السَّلْسَل

    The purest of men's prayer was among the waters poured

    upon its boughs by the Giver of flowing bounty.

  43. لو وُزِنَتْ كلُّ صلاةٍ بها

    من أنبياءِ اللَّهِ لم تَعدلِ

    Were every prayer weighed against it,

    from God's prophets, none would equal it.

  44. يا أمَّ سعدٍ إنّها نِعمةٌ

    جاءتكِ لم تُطلَبْ ولم تُسأَل

    O mother of Sa'd, this is a blessing

    that came to you unrequested and unasked.

  45. هذا جِوارُ اللَّهِ فاستبشري

    وهذه جنّاتُه فادخلي

    This is God's protection; rejoice,

    and these are His gardens, so enter.