حيِّ الديارَ مَحا مَعارِفَ رَسمِها
طولَ البِلى وَتَراوُحُ الأَحقابِ
Revive the abodes whose features time has erased
Despite the long ravages and revolving epochs
فَكَأَنَّما كَتبَ اليَهودُ رُسومَها
إِلّا الكَنيفَ وَمُعقِدَ الأَطنابِ
As though the Jews inscribed its lines
Save the synagogue and builder of the spider's web
قَفراً كَأَنَّكَ لَم تَكُن تَلهو بِها
في نِعمَةٍ بِأَوانسٍ أَترابِ
Desolate as if you never frolicked there
In bounty and intimate gatherings of loved ones
فَاِترُك تَذَكُّرَ ما مَضى من عِيشَةٍ
وَمَحِلَّةٍ خَلَفِ المَقامِ يَبابِ
Forget the past life
And home behind the dwelling long collapsed
وَاِذكُر بَلاءَ مَعاشِرٍ وَاِشكُرهُم
ساروا بِأَجمَعِهم مِنَ الأَنصابِ
Remember instead the company of fellows and thank them
Together they left from the idols
أَنصابِ مَكَّةَ عامِدينَ لِيثرِبٍ
في ذىِ غَياطِلَ جَحفَلٍ جَبجابِ
Idols of Mecca, their goal Yathrib
Through empty barren tracts and twisting canyons
يَدعُ الحُزونَ مَناهِجا مَعلومَةً
في كُلِّ نَشزٍ ظاهِرٍ وِشعابِ
Leaving the saddened familiar routes
Through every open plain and winding valley
فيهِ الجيادُ شَوازِبٌ مَجنونَةٌ
قُبُّ البُطونِ لَواحِقُ الأَقرابِ
Where the steeds gallop wildly
With bulging stomachs and outstretched necks
مِن كُلِّ سَلهَبَةٍ وَأَجرَدَ سَلهَبٍ
كَالسيدِ بادَر غَفلَةَ الرُقابِ
Of every smooth and fully shorn sorrel
Like the master brandishing his sword to heads turned away
جَيشٌ عُيينةُ قاصِدٌ بِلوائِهِ
فيهِ وَصَخرٌ قائِدُ الأَحزابِ
An army with Uyainah leading its banners
And Sakhra commanding the factions
قَرمانِ كَالبَدرينِ أَصبَحَ فيهما
غَيثُ الفَقيرِ وَمَعقِلُ الهُرّابِ
Like two full moons they appeared
A rain for the poor and refuge for the dispossessed
حَتّى إِذا وَرَدوا المَدينَةَ وَاِرتَدَوا
لِلمَوتِ كُلَّ مَجّرَّب قَضّابِ
Until they reached Medina and returned
To death every experienced warrior
شَهراً وَعشراً قاهِرينَ مُحَمَّداً
وَصِحابُهُ في الحَربِ خَيرُ صِحابِ
For ten months suppressing Muhammad
And his companions the finest of comrades
نادَوا بِرحلَتِهم صَبيحَةَ قُلتُمُ
كِدنا نَكونُ بِها مَعَ الخُيّابِ
They declared one morn their departure
"We almost joined them!" you exclaimed
لَولا الخَنادِقُ غادَروا مِن جَمعِهم
قَتلى لِطَيرٍ سُغَّبٍ وَذِئابِ
Were it not for the trenches many corpses
Would have been left for the birds and beasts
