حلولُك في محلّ الضيم داما

حلولُك في محلّ الضيم داما

وحدُّ السيف يأبى أن يُضاما

وحدُّ السيف يأبى أن يُضاما

Your stay in the abode of oppression has lasted,

Your solutions replace oppression forever

And the sword's edge refuses to be wronged.

The sharpness of the sword refuses to be blunt

وكيف تمسُّ جانِبَك الليالي

وكيف تمسُّ جانِبَك الليالي

بِذُلٍّ أو تحلّ به اهتضاما

بِذُلٍّ أو تحلّ به اهتضاما

And how can the nights touch your side

How can the long nights touch your honorable side

With abasement, or inflict humiliation upon it?

With humiliation or gather indignities

ولم تنهض بأعباءٍ ثقالٍ

ولم تنهض بأعباءٍ ثقالٍ

بهنَّ سواك لَم يطقِ القياما

بهنَّ سواك لَم يطقِ القياما

And you have not risen to shoulder heavy burdens

You did not get up with heavy burdens

That no one but you could bear,

That none but you could endure arising

ولم تُضرم بحدِّ السيفِ حرباً

ولم تُضرم بحدِّ السيفِ حرباً

إلى كبد السما ترمي الضراما

إلى كبد السما ترمي الضراما

Nor kindled with the sword's edge a war

You did not ignite with the sharpness of swords, a war

That hurls flames into the heart of the sky,

Whose arrows reach to the liver of the sky

فيملأ طرفُك الآفاقَ نقعاً

فيملأ طرفُك الآفاقَ نقعاً

ويملأ سيفُك الأقطارَ هاما

ويملأ سيفُك الأقطارَ هاما

So that your steed fills the horizons with dust

So your gaze fills horizons with carnage

And your sword fills the lands with heads.

And your sword fills regions with hot blood

أتبذلُ للخمول جنابَ حُرٍّ

أتبذلُ للخمول جنابَ حُرٍّ

يحاذر أن يُعاب وأن يُداما

يحاذر أن يُعاب وأن يُداما

Would you surrender a free man's dignity to obscurity,

Do you give to laziness the side of a free man

One who fears being faulted and reviled?

Who is cautious of blame and violation

وآلك بالضبا شرعوا المعالي

وآلك بالضبا شرعوا المعالي

وجيش الموتِ يزدحم ازدحاما

وجيش الموتِ يزدحم ازدحاما

And your kin established glory with sword blades,

While your family parts the glories

While death's army pressed in a dense throng,

And the army of death is crowded with crowds

غداةَ طريدةُ المختار جاءت

غداةَ طريدةُ المختار جاءت

تقود لحربهِم جيشاً لُهاما

تقود لحربهِم جيشاً لُهاما

On the morning when the Chosen One's outcast came,

The morning the Chosen One's fugitive came

Leading a vast army to wage war upon them,

Leading their army violently enraged

ورامت أن تسومَ الضيمَ ندباً

ورامت أن تسومَ الضيمَ ندباً

أبى من عزِّه عن أن يُضاما

أبى من عزِّه عن أن يُضاما

And sought to inflict humiliation on a gallant man

She wanted to count the oppression as loss

Who, in his dignity, refused to be wronged.

But he refused from his dignity to be damaged

فأفرغَ جاشَهُ درعاً عليه

فأفرغَ جاشَهُ درعاً عليه

ونقعَ الموتِ صيَّره لِثاما

ونقعَ الموتِ صيَّره لِثاما

So he cast his courage as armor upon himself,

So he poured his contents as armor over him

And made death's dust a veil for his face.

And made the carnage of death his headwrap

يؤازره أخو صدقٍ شمامٌ

يؤازره أخو صدقٍ شمامٌ

يساندُ من أباطِحه شَماما

يساندُ من أباطِحه شَماما

A true brother supports him, a Shammam,

Supporting him, a brother of truth, valiant

Buttressing Shammam from his gravelly valleys.

Propping up his supporter fiercely courageous

وصلٌّ في صريمتهِ مُواسٍ

وصلٌّ في صريمتهِ مُواسٍ

لصلٍّ ينفث الموتَ الزؤاما

لصلٍّ ينفث الموتَ الزؤاما

And a viper in his resolve, giving aid

A stalwart in his cry, sympathizing

To a viper that spits out swift, terrible death.

With stalwarts spewing out violent death

هو العباسُ ليثُ بني نزارٍ

هو العباسُ ليثُ بني نزارٍ

ومن قد كان للاّجي عِصاما

ومن قد كان للاّجي عِصاما

He is al-Abbas, lion of the sons of Nizar,

He is Al-Abbas, the lion of Bani Nazar

And he who was a safeguard for the seeker of refuge,

And who had been to the weakened a protector

هزبرٌ أغلب تخذَ اشتباكَ ال

هزبرٌ أغلب تخذَ اشتباكَ ال

رماح بِحومة الهيجا أُجاما

رماح بِحومة الهيجا أُجاما

A thick-necked lion who made the tangle of the

Huzayr prevailing, seizing the entanglement

Spears in the thick of battle his thickets.

Of spears with the ardency of battle

فمدَّت فوقه العُقبان ظِلاًّ

فمدَّت فوقه العُقبان ظِلاًّ

ليُقريها جسومَهم طعاما

ليُقريها جسومَهم طعاما

So the eagles spread shade above him,

So the crows spread shade over him

To serve them his foes' bodies as food.

For his body to roast them as food

وواجهت الضبا منه محيًّا

وواجهت الضبا منه محيًّا

منيراً نورُه يجلو الضلاما

منيراً نورُه يجلو الضلاما

And the sword blades met his countenance,

And the young men faced from him an awakening

Radiant, its light dispelling the darkness.

His light dispelling the darkness

أخلاّءٌ تُصافحه يراها

أخلاّءٌ تُصافحه يراها

إذا اختلفت بجبهته لِطاما

إذا اختلفت بجبهته لِطاما

He sees them as dear friends shaking his hand,

Gallant men handshake with him when they see

When they strike his brow in successive slaps.

His forehead adorned with blood

أبيٌّ عند مسّ الضيم يمضي

أبيٌّ عند مسّ الضيم يمضي

بعزمٍ يقطع العضب الحُساما

بعزمٍ يقطع العضب الحُساما

Unbowed, when humiliation touches him, he advances

My father, when oppression touches, proceeds

With a resolve that cleaves the keen, cutting sword.

With resolve that cuts through the sharp swords