1. Tell our tribe, the diseased and the maimed,
The words of he whose beloved is their honor:
١. أَبلِغا قَومَنا جُذاماً وَلَخماً
قَولَ مَن عِزُّهُم إِلَيهِ حَبيبُ
2. Your fathers, when people made war
And they were the more numerous, wars
٢. كانَ آباؤُكُم إِذا الناسُ حَربٌ
وَهُمُ الأَكثَرونَ كانَ الحُروبُ
3. They prevented the gap between Homs
And the two mills, no stranger within.
٣. مَنَعوا الثَغرَةَ الَّتي بَينَ حمصٍ
وَالكَهاتَينِ لَيسَ فيها غَريبُ