أَنَهدِيّاً إِذا ما جِئتَ نَهداً

أَنَهدِيّاً إِذا ما جِئتَ نَهداً

وَتُدعى بِالجَزيرَةِ مِن نِزارِ

وَتُدعى بِالجَزيرَةِ مِن نِزارِ

Are you a Nahdi when you come to Nahd,

When you come wailing to those slopes,

yet in al-Jazira you are called one of Nizar?

Called after you “the peninsula of an-Nizar,”

أَلا تُغني كِنانَةُ عَن أَخيها

أَلا تُغني كِنانَةُ عَن أَخيها

زُهَيرٍ في المُلِمّاتِ الكِبارِ

زُهَيرٍ في المُلِمّاتِ الكِبارِ

Will Kinana not aid her brother,

Does not Kananah's singing avail

Zuhayr, in grave calamities,

Her brother Zuhair in grave events?

فَيَبرُزَ جَمعُنا وَبَنو عَدِيٍّ

فَيَبرُزَ جَمعُنا وَبَنو عَدِيٍّ

فَيُعلَمَ أَيُّنا مَولى صُحارِ

فَيُعلَمَ أَيُّنا مَولى صُحارِ

so that our host and the sons of Adi may come forth,

Then our band will sally forth, and the sons of 'Adiyy,

and it may be known which of us is Suhar's patron?

And it will appear which of us is the prop of Suhár.