أَلَم تَرَني صَبِرتُ عَلى خَريمٍ

وَكانَ فِداؤُهُ أَهلي وَمالي

Did you not see me be patient with an infirm old man

Do you not see how I patiently endured the loss of Kharim,

Whose ransom was my family and wealth?

Even though my family and my wealth would have been his ransom?

وَلوَ أَنّي شللت مِن يَميني

لأفردت اليَمين عَن الشِمال

And had my right hand been paralyzed

And even if my right hand were to wither,

I would have isolated it from the left

Leaving the right severed from the left,

وَلَكِنّي صبرت عليهِ إِنّي

رأيت الصَبر أَحجى بِالرِجال

But I was patient with him, for I

Yet I bore his loss with patience, for indeed I

Saw patience as the mark of great men

Deemed patience the most worthy trait for men.

فَتى حازَ المَكارِم وَهوَ طفل

وَأورى يافِعاً زند المَعالي

A young man who attained glory as a child

A young man who possessed noble virtues while merely a child,

And showed manliness while still a youth

And struck the flint of high glory while still an adolescent,

وَشادَ لِقَومِهِ مَجداً سَيَبقى

بَقاءَ الراسِيات مِن الجِبال

He brought glory to his people, glory that will last

And built for his people a glory that will remain,

As long as the firm mountains stand

Lasting as long as the firmly anchored mountains.

وَكانَ لَنا الخَليفَةَ مِن أَبيهِ

لِيَنهَض بالملمّات الثِقالِ

And he was for us a successor to his father

He was for us the true successor of his father,

To undertake with strong resolve this heavy task

Rising to shoulder the heavy burdens of calamity.

فَلا تبعَد فكلّ فَتى أُناسٍ

سَيفجعهم بِهِ صَرفَ اللَيالي

So do not despair, for every man of character

So may you not be cast far from mercy, for every tribe's youth

Will grieve them when the nights go by

Shall be taken from them by the turning of the nights.

فَإِن تَكُ للبِلى أَمسَيتَ رَهناً

فَقَد أَبقَيتَ مَجداً غَيرَ بالِ

And if you are destined for ruin, you will remain

For if you have now become a hostage to decay,

A glory that does not disappear or fade

You have surely left behind a glory that shall never fade.