1. We obeyed your love when it called us,
And disobeyed the blamers when they forbade us.

2. We brought from the sea of your love a blossom,
Pure, above which the buds have withered.

3. We sacrificed our souls, then never shirked,
Striking without cease, and thrusting with spears.

4. We favored the taste of death in your cause,
As if death in it brings life.

5. How often for your sake, did we smash boldly,
Sometimes with sword, another time with spear!

6. We attained your sanctuary, and attained it,
An ascent leaving the valiant craven.

7. We saw harsh matters becoming smooth,
How many a rugged place seems gentle to lovers!

8. O my era of ruins and praying place,
In the valley of Al-Naqa you were watered for an age.

9. How long we populated those hills with hopes,
When we took surety from the nights for a time.

10. We rose up at once and never flagged,
No procrastinator ever attained his wish.

11. We dragged behind us tails of joy,
And trailed from bliss overlong trains.

12. In meadows that mimicked the clouds,
Weaving from its blossoms manifold hues.

13. We approved of no meadow afterwards,
Neither its dwellers nor dwellings again.

14. O sweet hours in the valley of Al-Shaab
Whose showers of bounty gave life meaning!

15. We never ceased remembering the friendly campfire;
Does its memory, think you, ever recall us?