مجْدٌ على هامَةِ العَيُّوقِ مَرْفوعُ

راقَ الوَرى مِنْهُ مَرْئِيٌ وَمَسْمُوعُ

Glory raised aloft on the summit of glory

Radiant over the world both seen and heard

وَسُؤْدَدٌ لم يَجُبَّ الدَّهْرُ غارِبَهُ

وَغَيْرُهُ في نَدِيِّ الحَيِّ مَدْفوعُ

Never has time darkened its bright rising

While others in life’s meadow are downtrodden

طَرْفُ الحَسودِ غَضيضٌ دونَ غَايَتِه

وَسِنُّهُ بِبنان العَجْز مَقْروعُ

The envious man’s glance falls short of its goal

His teeth broken on the rocks of failure

وَقَدْ وَرِثْناهُما غُرّاً جَحا جِحةً

أَريبُهُمْ في الندى بِالحمْدِ مَخْدوعُ

Yet we have inherited from them rancor and spite

While we remain mild and praised in gentleness

لكنَّنا في زَمانٍ لَيْتَ دابِرَهُ

بِما يَشُقُّ على الأَوْغادِ مَقْطوعُ

If only fate’s end were to cut short

What grieves base cowards and brings them pain

غَاضَ الكرامُ كما فاضَ اللِّئامُ بِهِ

فَالخَيْرُ مُجْتَنَبٌ وَالشَّرُّ مَتْبوعُ

The noble have departed as the vile increase

Good is shunned while evil spreads its wings

وَما لَهُمْ نَسَبٌ لكنْ لَهم نَشَبٌ

وَكُلُّ لُؤْمٍ بِهِ في النّاسِ مَرْقوعُ

Though they boast no lineage, yet they have temerity

Each villain among the people is feared

وَهَلْ يَضُرُّهُمُ أَنْ ليسَ عَمَّهُمُ

عَمرُو العُلا هاشِمٌ وَالخَالَ يَرْبوعُ

Does it harm them that their uncle is not

Amr al-Ula, Hashim, or Rabia?

وَهُمْ شِباعٌ رِواءٌ في الغِنى وَلَنا

أَحْسابُ آلِ أَبي سُفيَانَ وَالْجوعُ

While we are sated, quenched in wealth, yet ours

Are the fortunes of Abu Sufyan's house and hunger