بَلغتْ مَطيُّكَ أَوّلَ الرُّكبانِ
ورَمتْ بَرحْلِكَ أبعدُ الأوطانِ
Your horse reached the first of the caravans
And threw your luggage to the farthest of homelands
حَدَتِ النَّوى بك أربعينَ عَوابساً
شُوهَ الوُجوهُ ذميمةَ الألوانِ
The determination guided you with forty relentless ones
Ugly faces, despicable colors
مالَ الأسَى بِرحالِها وجرَى دماً
ماءُ الشُّؤونِ فمالَ بالأرسانِ
Sorrow turned away with its luggage and blood flowed
The water of affairs, so it turned towards the saddlebags
تمضِي جَوافلُها بأغبرَ مُوحَشٍ
تَنسابُ فيه نواعبُ الغِربانِ
Its regiments pass through a desolate fearful darkness
In which the flirtations of ravens flow
وادي النَّوى اختطّتْ به لذويِ الأَسَى
مَسْرَى الهُمومِ ومَسرحَ الأحزانِ
The valley of determination, they charted it for those in sorrow
A passage for worries and a theater for sorrows
يُزجِي الرّكائبَ كلَّ يومٍ شَطْرَهُ
غادى الفراقِ ورائحُ الإخوانِ
It moves the riders every day in its direction
To the separation that departed and to the beloved brothers
زالوا سِراعاً كالحُصونِ هَوَى بها
قَدَرٌ من الزَّلزالِ ذي الرَّجَفانِ
They quickly disappeared like the fallen fortresses
Which fate with its tremors struck
عَدَتِ الخطوبُ فَطاحَ في غَمَرَاتِها
شَعبٌ بأفياءِ الكِنانةِ عانِ
Misfortunes befell and fell in its depths
A people with the banners of defeat complained
ضاحِي المَقاتلِ ما يَزالُ يَنوشُه
ضاحي العَداوةِ بارزُ الشَّنآنِ
The fighting warrior continues to be intoxicated
By the fighting enmity, prominent hostility
ما انفَّك يُجزَعُ بالحُماةِ أعزّةً
مُستكبرينَ على ذَوِي التِّيجانِ
Those proud of the protectors have not ceased to be alarmed
Arrogant over those with crowns
مُتمرِّدينَ على الزَّمانِ يَسومُهم
سِمةَ الهَوانِ وخُطَّةَ الإِذعانِ
Rebelling against time making them
A stigma of humiliation and a mark of submission
نهضَ الأُباةُ بهم إلى مُستشرفٍ
تَنجابُ عنه قوارعُ الحِدْثانِ
The refusal arose with them to a noble horizon
From which the hits of events recoil
عَالٍ لَوَ اَنَّ الجِنَّ في سُلطانهِا
هَمَّتْ به لَهَوتْ على الأذقانِ
High, if jinn in their power
Had designs on it, they would have fallen from the minds
يَستصغرُ الخَطرَ المَهِيبَ نَزيلُه
ويراه أَهْيَبَ مَنزلٍ ومكانِ
The frightening danger, its resident underestimates
And sees it as a humiliating residence and place
مَرقَى الرّجالِ إلى الخُلودِ وسُلَّمٌ
يَنحطُّ عنه العاجزُ المُتواني
The ladder of men to immortality and a ladder
From which the incapable coward falls
وإذا رُزِقْتَ النَّفسَ دائبةَ القُوى
فَاهْنَأْ فلستَ على الزَّمانِ بفانِ
And if you are granted an enduring soul
Then congratulations, you are not bound to perish in this world
أَعليُّ ما بكَ غيرُ رَوْحةِ نازعٍ
قَلِقِ المطالبِ ثائرِ الأشجانِ
The most valuable thing in you is nothing but the spirit of the challenger
Restless in demands, raging in sorrows
ضاقت به الدّارُ الشَّقيَّةُ فَانْتَحى
دارَ النَّعيمِ ومنزلَ الرِّضوانِ
The miserable house was too narrow so he headed off
To the house of bliss and the abode of contentment
عَزَّ الشّهيدُ وراح تاركُ حقِّهِ
في ذِلَّةٍ من عَيْشهِ وهَوانِ
The martyr prevailed and left granting his right
To the humiliation of his living and decline
