Claude 2

  1. نَشَجْتَ وَهَلْ لَكَ منْ مَنْشَجِ

    وكنْتَ مَتَى تَذَّكِرْ تَلْجَجِ

    You yearned, but do you have a yearner?

    And when did you, remembering, quiver?

  2. تذكُّرَ قَومٍ أتاني لَهَمُ

    أحاديثُ في الزَمَنِ الأَعْوَجِ

    Remembering a people who came to me,

    With crooked-time conversations,

  3. فَقَلْبُكَ مِنْ ذِكْرِهِم خافِقٌ

    مِنَ الشَّوقِ والحَزَنِ المُنْضِجِ

    So your heart quivers from remembering them

    From ardour and ripened sorrow,

  4. وقَتْلاهُمُ في جِنانِ النَّعيمِ

    كِرامُ المداخلِ والمَخْرَجِ

    And their killing in the gardens of bliss

    Is the honour of entry and exit,

  5. بما صَبَروا تَحْتَ ظِلِّ اللِّواءِ

    لواءِ الرسولِ بذي الأَضْوَجِ

    Due to their patience under the banner’s shade,

    The banner of the Messenger with curved staff,

  6. غداةَ أجابَتْ بأَسْيافِها

    جميعاً بَنُو الأَوْسِ والخَزْرَجِ

    On the morrow when the sons of Aws and Khazraj

    Responded with their swords altogether,

  7. وأشياعُ أَحْمَدَ إذ شايَعوا

    على الحقِّ ذي النورِ والمَنْهَجِ

    And the adherents of Ahmad when they adhered

    To the creed of light and method,

  8. فما بَرِحُوا يَضْرِبُونَ الكُماةَ

    ويمضونَ في القَسْطلِ المرْهجِ

    So they never ceased striking the tyrants

    And travelled on in the well-paved road,

  9. كذلِكَ حَتَّى دَعَاهُمْ مَلِيكٌ

    إلى جَنَّةٍ دَوْحَةِ المُولِجِ

    Thus until a King called them

    To a garden, sanctuary of admission,

  10. فكلُّهُمُ مَاتَ حُرَّ البلاءِ

    على مِلَّةِ اللهِ لَمْ يَحْرَجِ

    And so they all died free of tribulation

    To God’s religion, unhesitating,

  11. كَحَمْزةَ لمّا وَفَى صادِقاً

    بذي هِبَةٍ صارِمٍ سَلْجَجِ

    Like Hamzah when he fulfilled loyally

    With the generous, brandishing, edged sword,

  12. فلاقاهُ عَبْدُ بَني نَوْفَلٍ

    يُبرِبْرُ كالجَملِ الأَدْعَجِ

    So the slave of Banu Nawfal met him

    Braying like a trained camel,

  13. فأَوْجَزَهُ حَرْبَةً كالشِّهابِ

    تَلَهَّبُ في اللَّهَبِ المُوهَجِ

    And [Hamzah] dispatched him with a spear

    That blazes in intensive flames,

  14. ونَعمانُ أَوْفى بمِيثاقِهِ

    وَحَنْظَلَةُ الخيرِ لَمْ يُحْنَجِ

    And Nu’man fulfilled his covenant

    And Hanzalah the benevolent was not hesitant

  15. عَنِ الحق حَتَّى غَدَتْ رُوحُهُ

    إلى مَنْزِلٍ فاخِرِ الزِّبْرَجِ

    To the truth until his soul went

    To an eminent, gilded residence,

  16. أولئِكَ لا مَنْ ثَوَى مِنْكُمُ

    مِنَ النّارِ في الدَّرَكِ المُرْتَجِ

    They are the ones, not those of you

    Who will stay, due to sins, in hell.