دَعني أَجِدُّ إِلى العَلياءِ في الطَلبِ

وَأَبلُغُ الغايَةَ القُصوى مِنَ الرُتَبِ

Let me strive to ascend the heights in my quest,

And reach the utmost summit of the ranks,

لَعَلَّ عَبلَةَ تُضحي وَهيَ راضِيَةٌ

عَلى سَوادي وَتَمحو صورَةَ الغَضَبِ

Perhaps Ubla will make peace happily

Overlooking my darkness and erasing the face of anger,

إِذا رَأَت سائِرَ الساداتِ سائِرَةً

تَزورُ شِعري بِرُكنِ البَيتِ في رَجَبِ

When she sees the elite ladies visiting

My poetry in the corner of the house in Rajab,

يا عَبلَ قومي اِنظُري فِعلي وَلا تَسَلَي

عَنّي الحَسودَ الَّذي يُنبيكِ بِالكَذِبِ

O Ubla arise and look at my actions, do not ask

The envious one about me, who misleads you with lies,

إِذ أَقبَلَت حَدَقُ الفُرسانِ تَرمُقُني

وَكُلُّ مِقدامِ حَربٍ مالَ لِلهَرَبِ

When the eyes of the knights peered at me

And every brave warrior turned to flee,

فَما تَرَكتُ لَهُم وَجهاً لِمُنهَزِمٍ

وَلا طَريقاً يُنَجّيهِم مِنَ العَطَبِ

I left them no face of one who flees,

Nor an escape route to save them from ruin,

فَبادِري وَاِنظُري طَعناً إِذا نَظَرَت

عَينُ الوَليدِ إِلَيهِ شابَ وَهوَ صَبي

So hurry and watch a stab when the eye of Al-Walid

Looks at it, it will grow up while he is still a boy,

خُلِقتُ لِلحَربِ أُحميها إِذا بَرَدَت

وَأَصطَلي نارَها في شِدَّةِ اللَهَبِ

I was created for war, I protect it when it cools down,

And ignite its fire in the intensity of the flames,

بِصارِمٍ حَيثُما جَرَّدتُهُ سَجَدَت

لَهُ جَبابِرَةُ الأَعجامِ وَالعَرَبِ

With a sword wherever I unsheathe it,

The tyrants of non-Arabs and Arabs bow down to it,

وَقَد طَلَبتُ مِنَ العَلياءِ مَنزِلَةً

بِصارِمي لا بِأُمّي لا وَلا بِأَبي

And I have sought from the Most High a position

With my sword, not with my mother or father,

فَمَن أَجابَ نَجا مِمّا يُحاذِرُهُ

وَمَن أَبى ذاقَ طَعمَ الحَربِ وَالحَرَبِ

Whoever responds will be saved from what he fears,

And whoever refuses will taste the flavor of war and wars.