لا قُدِّسَتْ دارُ السُّلَيْ

مانيةِ الشوهاءِ دارا

The cursed home of the deformed Suleiman

Was not a home for Muslims, nor Jews, nor Christians

ما أهلها بالمسلمي

ن ولا اليهودِ ولا النصارى

They are the worst dregs that debauchery begat

A tomcat conceived of the seed of drunkards

هم شرُّ ما أوعى البغا

يا قطُّ من نُطَفِ السكارى

We were compelled to dwell therein and we

Established our dwellings upon its wastelands

رُمْنَا النزول بها فأل

فينا منازلها قِفارا

Our honor was violated therein so we

Turned away fleeing

وتُنُوولِت أَعراضُنا

فيها فولَّينا فِرارا

We did not gain victory and the free man

Does not hope for triumph from the ignoble

لم ننتصرْ والحرُّ لا

يرجو من النذلِ انتصارا

The villages of Aleppo are more

Beloved to me than dwelling in them

ما قُرى حلبٍ أح

بُّ إلى القِرى منها ديارا

It borders you, O Ghawth, so have you

Praised it for its vicinity?

هيَ في جوارِكَ يا قُوَيْ

قُ فهل حَمِدْتَ لها جوارا

It has brought you shame, O Ghawth

In being near it, and that suffices as dishonor

كسبتك عاراً يا قوي

قُ بقربها وكفاكَ عارا

Branded by inauspiciousness, may its

Inauspiciousness intensify and spread

موسومةٌ بالشؤْمِ أَنْ

جَدَ شُؤْمها فيها وغارا

If it were personified, it would be

personified none other than as perfidy

لو صُوِّرتْ بشراً إِذنْ

ما صُوِّرتْ إلا قُدارا

It pained Abu Hafs and whomsoever

Its hands did not enervate, it weakened

قَسَرَتْ أبا حفصٍ ومَنْ

لم تحوهِ يدُها اقتسارا

After it took his brother

And his son, a painful taking

من بعدِ ما أَخذتْ أَخا

ه وابنَهُ أَخذاً ضِرارا

O Lord, protect Abu Ali wherever

He settled and wherever he traveled

يا ربِّ فاكفِ أبا عل

ي حيث حلَّ وحيثُ سارا

And pour upon its regions

Famine, and destroy it with destruction

واصببْ على أقطارِها

قَحْطاً ودمِّرها دَمارا