إِذا ما أَلحَدَت أُمَمٌ بِجَهلٍ

فَقابِلها بِتَوحيدِ السُيوفِ

If nations, through ignorance, depart from faith,

then fight them with swords made one.

كَأَنّا في سَجايانا نُقودٌ

كَثيراتُ البَهارِجِ وَالزُيوفِ

As though, in our inborn dispositions, we were coins—

so many of us debased, so many counterfeit.

وَهَذي الأَرضُ لِلمَلِكِ المُرَجّى

نُلِمُّ بِها كَإِلمامِ الضُيوفِ

And this earth belongs to the king in whom hope is placed;

we stop upon it only as guests stop awhile.