لمَّا مررتَ إلى المُصَلى قائِماً

لمَّا مررتَ إلى المُصَلى قائِماً

بسكينَةِ التَّقوَى مقام مناجِ

بسكينَةِ التَّقوَى مقام مناجِ

When you passed toward the prayer ground, taking your stand

When you passed by the mosque standing

With piety's serenity, in the stance of one communing in prayer,

With the tranquility of pious devotion in place of intimacy

في عسكرٍ لجب يسرُّ أولي الهُدَى

في عسكرٍ لجب يسرُّ أولي الهُدَى

لكنَّه لأولي الضَّلالَةِ ثاجِ

لكنَّه لأولي الضَّلالَةِ ثاجِ

Amid a clamorous army that gladdens the rightly guided,

In an army whose youths delight the rightly guided

Yet surges against those astray.

But for the misguided they are thorns

فيه أسودُ الحربِ في غِيل القَنَا

فيه أسودُ الحربِ في غِيل القَنَا

من فَوقِ كُلِّ مطهَّم هملاجِ

من فَوقِ كُلِّ مطهَّم هملاجِ

Within it are lions of war amid thickets of spears,

In it are the black horses amidst the dust of battle

Upon every well-built, smooth-gaited steed:

Above every overburdened, exhausted conveyance

من دارعٍ يَلقَى القَنا بِلبانِهِ

من دارعٍ يَلقَى القَنا بِلبانِهِ

في كلِّ مأزق حطمة ولاّج

في كلِّ مأزق حطمة ولاّج

Among them, a mail-clad warrior who meets spears with his breast,

Armored men meet the foe with their chests

A crushing fighter, ever plunging into each narrow fray;

In every strait, breaking and charging

أو نابلٍ ذي عِمَّةٍ تركيةٍ

أو نابلٍ ذي عِمَّةٍ تركيةٍ

راقَ العيونَ بشارة مبهاج

راقَ العيونَ بشارة مبهاج

Or an archer wearing a Turkish turban,

Or archers with Turkish quivers

Who charmed the eyes with delightful finery,

Whose eyes gleam with joyful tidings

متنكب قوساً له عربيّة

متنكب قوساً له عربيّة

موشية زِينَت بقبضةِ عاج

موشية زِينَت بقبضةِ عاج

Carrying his Arabian bow over his shoulder,

Bearing an Arabian bow adorned

Ornamented, adorned with an ivory grip.

With decoration made of elephant tusk