فَإِن تَنجُ يَدمى عارِضاكَ فَإِنَّنا

فَإِن تَنجُ يَدمى عارِضاكَ فَإِنَّنا

تَرَكنا بَنيكَ لِلضِباعِ وَلِلرَخمِ

تَرَكنا بَنيكَ لِلضِباعِ وَلِلرَخمِ

So if you escape with both cheeks bleeding, then we

Though you escape while Fortune's blows still miss,

Have left your sons for the hyenas and vultures.

We left your sons to jackals and to worms,

جَزَيتُ عَياضاً كُفرَهُ وَعُقوقَهُ

جَزَيتُ عَياضاً كُفرَهُ وَعُقوقَهُ

وَأَخرَجتُهُ مِنَ المُدفَأَةِ الدَهمِ

وَأَخرَجتُهُ مِنَ المُدفَأَةِ الدَهمِ

I repaid Iyad for his ingratitude and disloyalty,

I paid Ayadh back for his misdeeds and sins,

And drove him from the teeming herds of black camels.

And from the fiery furnace cast him out.

أَلا هَل أَتاهُ ما رَكِبنا سَراتَهُم

أَلا هَل أَتاهُ ما رَكِبنا سَراتَهُم

وَما قَد عَقَرنَ مِن صَفِيٍّ وَمِن قَرمِ

وَما قَد عَقَرنَ مِن صَفِيٍّ وَمِن قَرمِ

Listen—has word reached him of how we assailed their chiefs,

Does he not know what happened when we marched

And of the choice milch camels and breeding camel stallions they have hamstrung?

Against his clans, and broke their spears and swords?