إذَا اللَّهُ عَادَى أهْلَ لُؤْمٍ وَرِقَّةٍ

فَعَادَى بَنِي العَجْلاَنِ رَهْطَ ابْنِ مُقْبِلِ

If God opposes the people of oppression and weakness

Then He opposes the tribe of Al-Ajlan, the folks of Ibn Muqbil

قَبِيِّلَةٌ لاَ يَغْدِرُونَ بِذِمَّةٍ

وَلاَ يَظْلِمُونَ النَّاسَ حَبَّةَ خَرْدَلِ

A tribe who never betray a covenant

Nor oppress people even an iota

وَلاَ يَرِدُونَ المَاءَ إلا عَشِيَّةً

إذا صَدَرَ الوُرَّادُ عَنْ كُلّ مَنْهَلِ

They only return to water in the evening

When the water-bearers have left every spring

تَعَافُ الكِلاَبُ الضَّارِيَاتُ لُحُومَهُمْ

وَتَأكُلُ مِنْ كَعْبٍ وَعَوْفٍ وَنَهْشَلِ

Wild dogs refrain from their meat

And eat of Ka'b, 'Awf and Nahshali

وَمَا سُمِّي العَجْلاَنَ إلاَّ لِقَوْلِهِ

خُذِ القَعبَ واحْلُبْ أيُّهَا العَبْدُ واعْجَلِ

Al-Ajlan were named so only because he said

Take the udder and milk, O slave, and be quick

أولئِكَ إخْوَانُ اللَّعِينِ وأسْرَةُ ال

هَجِينِ وَرَهْطُ الوَاهِنِ المُتَذَلِّلِ

They are the brothers of the accursed one and family of

The vile one, and followers of the disgraced submissive one