لَعمرك لَو أصبحتُ في دارِ منقذٍ

لَعمرك لَو أصبحتُ في دارِ منقذٍ

لَما ضيمَ سعدٌ وهو جارٌ لأبياتي

لَما ضيمَ سعدٌ وهو جارٌ لأبياتي

By your life, had I awoken in Munqidh's abode,

For your life, if I were to live in a supportive home

Sa'd would not have been wronged, a neighbor to my tents.

Sa'd would not have wronged me, he being a neighbor to my verses,

وَلَكنّني أَصبحتُ في دارِ غربةٍ

وَلَكنّني أَصبحتُ في دارِ غربةٍ

مَتى يعدُ فيها الذئبُ يعدُ عَلى شاتي

مَتى يعدُ فيها الذئبُ يعدُ عَلى شاتي

But I have awoken in a land of strangers;

But I have woken up in an alien house

Whenever the wolf runs there, it attacks my ewe.

Wherein the wolf counts, counting against my ewes.

فَيا سعدُ لا تغرر بِنَفسك واِرتَحل

فَيا سعدُ لا تغرر بِنَفسك واِرتَحل

فَإنّك في قومٍ عنِ الجارِ أمواتِ

فَإنّك في قومٍ عنِ الجارِ أمواتِ

So, O Sa'd, do not endanger yourself; depart.

So O Sa'd, be not fooled by yourself, and move on,

For you are among a people dead to their neighbor.

For you are among a people, dead to the neighbor.

وَدونك أَذوادي فإنّي عنهمُ

وَدونك أَذوادي فإنّي عنهمُ

لَراحلةٌ لا يَفقدوني بنيّاتي

لَراحلةٌ لا يَفقدوني بنيّاتي

And take my small camel herds, for from those people

And beneath you my supporters - for I am to them

I shall surely depart; may my little daughters not lose me.

A departure, they will not miss my intentions.

وَسر نَحوَ جُرم إن جرماً أعزّةٌ

وَسر نَحوَ جُرم إن جرماً أعزّةٌ

وَلا تكُ فيهم لاهياً بين نسواتِ

وَلا تكُ فيهم لاهياً بين نسواتِ

And journey toward Jurm, for Jurm are mighty,

And travel toward a crime, if crimes are supporters,

And do not idle among them in the company of women.

And be not distracted among them, between forgetful women,

إِذا لَم يَقوموا لي بِثأري وَيَصدقوا

إِذا لَم يَقوموا لي بِثأري وَيَصدقوا

طِعانهم وَالضربَ في كلّ غاراتِ

طِعانهم وَالضربَ في كلّ غاراتِ

If they do not rise to avenge me and fight in earnest

If they do not rise for me, avenging,

With their spear-thrusts and blows in every raid,

And confirm their stabbing in every raid.

فَلا آبَ ساعيهم ولا سدَّ فَقرهم

فَلا آبَ ساعيهم ولا سدَّ فَقرهم

وَلا زالَ في الدنيا لَهم شرّ نكباتِ

وَلا زالَ في الدنيا لَهم شرّ نكباتِ

Then may their striver never return, nor their poverty be relieved,

So I do not blame their messenger, or close their poverty,

And may the worst calamities never leave them in this world.

Or cease, in life, their worst reversals.