لما رأيتَ الرومَ تَبذُل جَهدَهَا

والدينُ مِنهَا جَاهِدٌ مجهودُ

When you saw Rome exerting her utmost might,

And religion being fiercely assailed by her,

أمضَيتَ في ذاتِ الإلهِ ودينِهِ

عَزماً له التصويبُ والتصعِيد

You resolved firmly for God and His faith,

To set it upright and raise it aloft;

وغزوت لُورقَةَ معقلَ الكفر الذي

قد عانَدَ الأفكارَ مِنهُ عَنِيدُ

And you raided Lorca, the fortress of unbelief,

Whose obdurate thoughts had always defied;

من فاتكٍ في كلِّ حِينٍ لَم يَزَل

يُوهي قُوَى الإسلام مِنهُ جَلِيدُ

With warriors who never failed to sap

The might of Islam, and mar it when waxing;

فتركتَهُ قاعاً يَباباً مثلمَا

تركت مساكِنَها العِظامَ ثَمُودُ

So you left it a waste, a hollow, like dwellings

Abandoned by Thamud when lightning smote them.

والآن أعمَلتَ الرِّكابَ لِعَزمَةٍ

مِن شانِها الإدراكُ والتسدِيدُ

And now you are spurring your steed to battle

With a host whose goal is fixed and resources sure;

جَهَّزتَ نحوَ الرومِ جُنداً غالباً

وله مِنَ النَّصرِ العزيزِ جُنودُ

You have marshalled an army bound for Rome,

With squadrons of victors and troops in multitudes.