أَمِن طَلَلٍ بِمَدفَعِ ذي طِلالٍ

أَمَحَّ جَديدَهُ قِدَمُ اللَيالي

From the ruins with echoing cannon

The nights have erased its features

بَكَيتَ وَما بُكا رَجُلٍ حَزينٍ

عَلى رَبعَينِ مَسلوبٍ وَبالي

You wept, no sorrowful man wept

For two abandoned quarters and misfortune

وَمَوماةٍ يَحارُ الطَّرفُ فيها

صَموتِ اللَيلِ طامِسَةِ الجِبالِ

And a love that confuses the eyes

The silent night enveloping the mountains

مَنَنّاهُنَّ بِالإِدلاجِ حَتّى

كَأَنَّ مُتونَهُنَّ عِصِيُّ ضالِ

We entertained them with nightfall until

Their bodies seemed like lost sticks

لَعَمرُكَ ما سُيوفُ بَني عَليٍّ

بِنابِيَةِ الظُباةِ وَلا كِلالِ

By your life, the swords of the Ali's sons

Are not with the zebras nor tiredness

هُمُ القَومُ الأُلى وَرِثوا أَباهُم

تُراثَ مُحَمَّدٍ غَيرَ إِنتِحالِ

They are the finest people who inherited their father

The inheritance of Muhammad without falsehood

وَهُم تَرَكوا المَقالَ لَنا رَفيعاً

وَما تَرَكوا عَلَيهِم مِن مَقالِ

And they left the speech for us high

And they left no speech against them

حَذَوتُم قَومَكُم ما قَد حَذَوتُم

كَما يُحذى المِثالُ عَلى المِثالِ

You have emulated your people as you have emulated

As the example is emulated by the example

فَرُدّوا في جِراحِكُم أَساكُم

فَقَد أَبلَغتُمُ مُرَّ النَكالِ

So return your swords in your wounds

For you have reached the peak of agony