أَلَم يَبلُغكَ ما لاقَت قُرَيشٌ

وَحَيُّ بَني كِنانَةَ إِذ أُثيروا

Did not the news reach you of what Quraysh faced,

And the clan of Kinanah, when we attacked them,

دَهَمناهُم بِأَرعَنَ مُكفَهِرٍّ

فَظَلَّ لَنا بِعَقوَتِهِم زَئيرُ

With growling lions in the early gloom -

Their wailing was our music at daybreak.

نُقَوِّمُ مارِنَ الخَطِيِّ فيهِم

يَجيءُ عَلى أَسِنَّتِنا الجَزيرُ

We straighten the bent spear shafts back to true

And death comes to them on our whetted blades.

سَيُخبِرُ أَهلَ وَجٍّ مَن كَتَمتُم

وَتَذمي مَن أَلَمَّ بِها القُبورُ

The young warriors of Wajj will tell their kin

Of those whose graves are still mourned over.