نحن الفوارس يوم الشعب ضاحية

نحن الفوارس يوم الشعب ضاحية

والضاربون على ما كان من ألم

والضاربون على ما كان من ألم

We are the horsemen on the day of al-Shiʿb, in broad daylight,

We are the knights on the day the people were raging,

And those who strike, whatever pain there may have been,

And the ones who struck what was of pain,

والمعلمون وعظم الخيل لاحقة

والمعلمون وعظم الخيل لاحقة

مبتوتة كعجيم ترَّ عّنْ جَرَمِ

مبتوتة كعجيم ترَّ عّنْ جَرَمِ

And those bearing battle-marks, while most steeds are gaunt,

And the teachers, and the chasing horses neighed,

Worn out, like date-stones cut away from their flesh.

Died away like a foreigner who escaped the crime.

هلا سألت وقول الحق أصدقه

هلا سألت وقول الحق أصدقه

عنا وعنكُم وعن من نلق بالرقم

عنا وعنكُم وعن من نلق بالرقم

Why did you not ask—and truthful speech is the truest—

Why don't you ask and the truest words I say,

About us, about you, and about those we meet at al-Raqam:

About us and about you and whom we meet with numbers,

أنا جدعنا بصفر من أنوفكم

أنا جدعنا بصفر من أنوفكم

أنفاً أشم فأمسى حق مصطلم

أنفاً أشم فأمسى حق مصطلم

How we cut off at Ṣafr, from among your noses,

I am truthful with the zeros of your noses,

A proud, high-bridged nose, which by evening was utterly severed?

A nose I smell so the truth becomes authorized.

يا عام لا تفسد الدعوى وقد تركت

يا عام لا تفسد الدعوى وقد تركت

منكم عصائب بين الوج والرخم

منكم عصائب بين الوج والرخم

O ʿĀm, do not distort the claim; already left behind were

O people do not spoil the case when you have left

Bands of your people between al-Wajj and al-Rakham.

From among you bands between the cheeks and the arms,

مالت عليهم لغيظ غبية بركت

مالت عليهم لغيظ غبية بركت

فيهم أحاديثهم في الناس كالحلم

فيهم أحاديثهم في الناس كالحلم

A rain-burst from Ghayẓ swept upon them and settled

Inclined upon them the stupidity of blessing knelt

Among them; their tales among the people are like a dream.

In them their talks among people like dreams.