تَطاوَلَ لَيلي بِهَمٍّ وَصِب

وَدَمعٍ كَسَحِّ السِقاءِ السَرِب

My night grew long with worries and wakefulness

And tears like the downpour of heavy rain

لِلعبِ قُصَيٍّ بِأَحلامِها

وَهَل يَرجِعُ الحلمُ بَعدَ اللَعِب

For the fate of Quraysh with its dreams

Can a dream return after the end of play?

وَنَفيِ قُصَيٍّ بَني هاشِمٍ

كَنَفيِ الطُهاةِ لطافَ الخَشَب

And the exile of Quraysh, the Banu Hashim

Is like the carpenter's repudiation of the finest wood

وَقَولٍ لِأَحمَدَ أَنتَ اِمرُؤٌ

خَلوفُ الحَديثِ ضَعيفُ السَبَب

And the word to Ahmad: "You are a man

Weak in argument, unreliable in reasoning"

وَإِن كانَ أَحمَدُ قَد جاءَهُم

بِحَقٍّ وَلَم يَأتِهِم بِالكَذِب

Though Ahmad came to them with truth

And did not approach them with lies

عَلى أَنَّ إِخوانَنا وازَروا

بَني هاشِمٍ وَبَني المُطَّلِب

Moreover, our brothers lined up

Against Banu Hashim and Banu al-Muttalib

هُما أَخَوانِ كَعَظمِ اليَمين

أَمرّا عَلَينا بِعقدِ الكَرب

The two brothers bound like the right hand

Their matter weighs heavily upon us

فَيالَ قُصَيٍّ أَلَم تُخبَروا

بِما حَلَّ مِن شُؤونٍ في العَرَب

Oh Quraysh, have you not been told

Of what has befallen the Arabs?

فَلا تُمسِكُنَّ بِأَيديكُمُ

بُعَيدَ الأُنوفِ بعَجبِ الذَنَب

So do not, with your hands

Seize the distant, the arrogant because of his sin

وَرُمتُم بِأَحمَدَ ما رُمتُمُ

عَلى الأَصَراتِ وَقُربِ النَسَب

And you threw at Ahmad what you threw

At the noble families, the closest in lineage

إِلامَ إِلامَ تَلاقَيتُمُ

بِأَمر مُزاجٍ وَحِلمٍ عَزَب

Why, why did you collide

In a matter of caprice and untamed reason?

زَعَمتُم بِأَنَّكُمُ جيرَةٌ

وَأَنَّكُمُ إِخوَةٌ في النَسَب

You claimed to be neighbors

And brothers in lineage

فَكَيفَ تُعادونَ أَبناءَهُ

وَأَهلَ الدِيانَةِ بَيتَ الحَسَب

Then how can you be hostile to his sons

And the people of his religion, the people of merit?

فَإِنّا وَمَن حَجَّ مِن راكِبٍ

وَكَعبَة مَكَّةَ ذاتِ الحُجُب

We and all pilgrims who ride

And the Kaaba of Mecca of curtains

تَنالونَ أَحمَدَ أَو تَصطَلوا

ظُباةَ الرِماحِ وَحَدَّ القُضُب

Will take on Ahmad or seek him out

Among the tips of spears and the edges of clubs

وَتَعتَرِفوا بَينَ أَبياتِكُم

صُدورَ العَوالي وَخَيلاً عُصب

And you will acknowledge among yourselves

The forelocks of the noble steeds and armored horses

إِذِ الخَيلُ تَمزَعُ في جَريِها

بِسَيرِ العَنيقِ وَحَثِّ الخَبَب

As the horses jerk in their galloping

With the walk of the she-camel and the drive of prodding

تَراهُنَّ مِن بَينِ ضافي السَبيبِ

قَصيرَ الحِزامِ طَويلَ اللَبَب

You see them from between the dangling straps

Short-girded, long-garmented

وَجَرداءَ كَالظَبي سَيموحَةٍ

طَواها النَقائِعُ بَعدَ الحَلَب

And bare like the oryx, slim and erect

Covered by the mantle after weaning

عَلَيها كِرامُ بَني هاشِمٍ

هُمُ الأَنجَبونَ مَعَ المُنتَخَب

Upon them the honor of Banu Hashim

They are the finest along with the chosen