لَكَ البُشْرَى ودُمْتَ قريرَ عَيْنِ

بشأْوَيْ كوكَبَيْكَ النَّاقِبَيْنِ

You have good tidings as long as your two bright stars remain delightful to the eye,

The two kings of Kindah who grew up and came of age wearing the crowns of glory,

مليكَيْ حِمْيَرٍ نَشَآ وشَبَّا

بتيجانِ السَّناءِ مُتَوَّجَيْنِ

My two pure bred steeds on whom the diseases of Ma'add did not grow,

And my two swords of Kindah unsheathed on the two sublime summits,

صَفِيَّي مَا نَمَتْ عُلْيَا مَعَدٍّ

وسِبطَيْ يَعْرُبٍ فِي الذِّرْوَتَيْنِ

My two polished Indian swords on your two valiant shoulders,

And my two towering spears, your two objects of pride,

وسَيْفَيْ عاتِقَيْكَ الصَّارِمَيْنِ

وطودَيْ مفخَرَيْكَ الشامِخَيْنِ

Both of them the pillars of religion and life,

Equal in their dark hair and sidelocks on both temples,

هُما للدينِ والدنيا مَحَلّاً

سُوَيْدَاوَاهُما فِي المُقْلَتَيْنِ

You have devoted them to the defense of Allah’s religion,

So they kept their vow, fully committed,

نَذَرْتَهُما لدينِ اللهِ نَصْراً

فَقَدْ قاما لنَذْرِكَ وَافِيَيْنِ

And they still are - and will always be - shouldering the burdens of the caliphate,

You initiated laws and they kept listening and working diligently,

وَمَا زالا لَدَيْكَ ولَنْ يَزَالا

بأَعباءِ الخلافَةِ ناهِضَيْنِ

They rose like two lights in the sky of your glory,

Like the shining rise of two brilliant stars,

شَرَائِعُ كُنْتَ مُبْدِعَها وَكَانَا

عَلَى مسعاكَ فِيهَا دائِبَيْنِ

So the kingdom gained the strongest of fortresses,

And the faith gained the most impregnable of strongholds,

وقاما فِي سماءِ عُلاكَ نُوراً

وإِشْرَاقاً مقامَ النَّيِّرَيْنِ

With the Hashimite sun of the state of Abd Shams,

And the Sword of Allah among them in both hands,

فحاطَ الملكَ أَكْلأُ حائِطَيْنِ

وحَلَّ الدينُ أَمنَعَ مَعْقِلَيْنِ

And its supporter who guaranteed protection over its highest frontiers,

You nurtured them on wars’ milk until you made them intimate with it,

بحاجِبِ شَمْسِ دَوْلَةِ عبدِ شَمْسٍ

وسيفِ اللهِ منها فِي اليَدَيْنِ

And they still are its suckling babies, adolescents and youths.

So your hopes did not prove false when they came forward

وناصِرِها الَّذِي ضَمِنَتْ ظُباهُ

حِمى الثَّغْرَيْنِ منها الأَعْلَيَيْنِ

Competing for the farthest extent of glories.

Nor were your wishes unfulfilled when they towered

غَذَوْتَهُما لِبانَ الحربِ حَتَّى

تَرَكْتَهُما إِلَيْها آنِسَيْنِ

Over the highest ranks of loftiness,

Without forgetting the covenants of the two Harithas,

وَمَا زالا رَضِيعَيْها عَوَاناً

وبِكْراً ناشئَيْنِ ويافِعَيْنِ

Or losing track of Mundhir’s last wishes,

Without disgracing Dhu Kala's exploits,

فما كَذَبَتْ ظنونُكَ يومَ جاءا

إِلَى أَمَدِ المكارِمِ سابقَيْنِ

Or Kulaib and Rabi’a’s women forgetting the two Ru’yns.

And when Islam cried out for help,

ولا خابَتْ مُناكَ وَقَدْ أَنافا

عَلَى رُتَبِ المعالي سامِيَيْنِ

To its ancient customs you promptly responded,

As you did in its early days when you personally

ولا نُسِيَتْ عهودُ الحارِثَيْنِ

ولا ضَاعَتْ وصايا المُنْذِرَيْنِ

Received the swords of its enemies with your palms,

An inherited honour you snatched decisively

ولا خَزِيَتْ مآثِرُ ذِي كَلاعٍ

ولا أَخْوَتْ كواعِبُ ذِي رُعَيْنِ

From your cousins in the battle of Hunayn,

And you held its reins carefully and wisely,

ولمَّا اسْتَصرَخَ الإِسلامُ طاعا

إِلَى العاداتِ منكَ مُلَبِّيَيْنِ

Handing it over to your first two grandsons.

Oh glory of guidance when they took over, independently

كما لَبَّيْتَهُ أَيَّامَ تلقَى

سيوفَ عُداتِهِ بالرَّاحَتَيْنِ

The party of God, unreliant on others!

And oh disgrace of enemies when they confronted them

تراثٌ حزتَ مفخَرَهُ نِزاعاً

إِلَى أَبناءِ عَمِّكَ فِي حُنَيْنِ

As army commanders with their regiments!

Good omens foretold their coming,

وقدتَ زمامَهُ حِفْظاً ورَعْياً

إِلَى سِبْطَيْ عُلاكَ الأَوَّلَيْنِ

And the luckiest stars rose to assist them.

The troops of victory marched in abundance

فيا عِزَّ الهُدى يومَ اسْتَقَلّا

لحزبِ اللهِ غَيْرَ مُوَاكِلَيْنِ

Seeking shade under the banner of honour.

Battalions thronged like the wings of night,

ويا خِزْيَ العدى لما استَتَمَّا

إِلَيْهِمْ بالكتائِبِ قائِدَيْنِ

Lodging over the full moon with their darkness,

With every creepy crawly thing makingmoves,

وَقَدْ نَهَدَا بأَيمَنِ طائِرَيْنِ

وَقَدْ طَلَعَا بأَسْعَدِ طالِعَيْنِ

As if wearing a coat of two frayed patches.

A warrior the lofty summits gave birth to,

وَقَدْ جاءَتْ جُنودُ النصرِ زحفاً

تلوذُ بظلِّ أَكرمِ رايتَيْنِ

And the carpet-weaver of death bore his twin,

As if his teeth were the swords of a transgressing army

كتائِبُ مثل جُنحِ الليلِ تَبْأَى

عَلَى بدرِ الظلامِ بِغُرَّتَيْنِ

Storming wildly with Al-Hussein’s blood,

And every rough-edged Indian scimitar,

بكُلِّ مُقَضْقِضِ الأَقرانِ ماضٍ

كَأَنَّ بثوبِهِ ذا لِبْدَتَيْنِ

And polished double-edged sword.

As though they and the night of war cloaking in darkness

فتىً وَلَدَتْهُ أَطرافُ العَوَالِي

ومُقْعِصَةُ المنايا تَوْأَمَيْنِ

Were two flickering lights within it.

But when they shone illuminated

كَأَنَّ سِنَانَهُ شِيعيُّ بَغْيٍ

تَقَحَّمَ ثائِراً بِدَمِ الحُسَيْنِ

By the glow of the two shining moons,

They wreaked freely havoc and destruction

وكُلِّ أَصَمَّ عَرَّاصِ التَّثَنِّي

وذِي شُطَبٍ رقيقِ الشَّفْرَتَيْنِ

Upon the settlements of the unbelievers.

The armies of death writhed among them

كَأَنَّهُما وليلُ الحربِ داجٍ

سَنا بَرْقَيْنِ فِيهَا خاطِفَيْنِ

In awful horror, more terrifying than two monsters.

As if the orbit of planets surrounded them

أَمَا وسَناهُما يومَ اسْتَنارا

بنورِ الأَبلَجَيْنِ الأَزهرينِ

Toting them in between the two dog stars.

The mounts of polytheists were led away from it

وراحَا بالمنايا فاسْتَباحا

ديارَ لَمِيقُ غيرَ مُعَرِّدَيْنِ

To exile as they became the guides.

They cried out in blood over its dwellings

وَقَدْ جاشَتْ جُيوشُ الموتِ فِيهَا

بأَهْوَلَ من توافي الأَيْهَمَيْنِ

A life for the religion, the bellow of two cattle-raids.

With willpower supported and aim guided straight,

كَأَنَّ مَجَرَّةَ الأَفلاكِ حَفَّتْ

بِهَا محفوفَةً بالشِّعْرَيَيْنِ

And might helped and bestowed with victory.

Thus the fortresses of security were transformed

وَقَدْ زُمَّتْ رِكابُ الشِّرْكِ منها

إِلَى سَفَرٍ وَكَانَا الحادِيَيْنِ

Into deathbeds for every insolent transgressor.

Therein a treacherous sword of betrayal was unsheathed

وناءا بالدماءِ عَلَى رُباها

حَياً للدِّينِ نَوْءَ المِرْزَمَيْنِ

As the crow croaked on the day of Bayn.

So it became as a second haunt

لعزم موفَّقين مسدَّدَيْنِ

وبأس مؤيدين مظفَّرَيْنِ

And a third home for the two hyenas.

The allies there invoke: “Would that between me and you

وَقَدْ خَسَفا كُرُنَّةَ بالعَوَالِي

و بُوغَةَ بادِئَيْنِ وعائِدَيْنِ

Was the breadth of the two horizons beforehand!”

Had you found him more ominous than ill fortune,

لقد زَجَرَ الهُدى يومَ استطارا

إِلَى الأَعداءِ أَيْمَنَ سانِحَيْنِ

You would deem him more disastrous than Hunayn.

Losing the kingdom, all hopes are shattered,

وشامَ الكفرُ يومَ تَيَمَّمَاهُ

بجندِ الحَقِّ أَشْأَمَ بارِقَيْنِ

And failing might one of the two deathblows.

If rogues were to feel its dread,

فتلكَ مصانِعُ الأَمنِ اسْتَحالَتْ

مصارِعَ كُلِّ ذي خَتْرٍ ومَيْنِ

Wolves would flee with the two bellies.

Every deceiver of you did not deceive

لغاوٍ سَلَّ سيفَ النَّكْثُ فِيهَا

كما نَعَبَ الغرابُ بيومِ بَيْنِ

The swords that fatally strike with both edges.

Their schemes collapsed into the most disgraceful abyss

فأَضْحَتْ منه ثانِيَةً لِحَزْوى

ووَلَّى ثالِثاً للقارِظَيْنِ

Of the lowliest stream of everlasting humiliation.

With a sword whose sharpness souls cannot endure

تنادِيهِ المعاهِدُ لَيْتَ بَيْنِي

وبينَكَ قَبْلُ بُعْدَ المَشْرِقَيْنِ

Appearing from behind the two steel blades.

Your enemy thereupon fell, deceived of hopes

لئِنْ وَجَدَتْهُ أَشْأَمَ من قُدارٍ

لقد عَدِمَتْهُ أَخْيَبَ من حُنَيْنِ

And life itself, suffering twofold disappointment.

Thus polytheism gets both the two disgraces

سَليبَ المُلْكِ مُنْبَتَّ الأَمانِي

وفَقْدُ العِزِّ إِحْدى المِيتَتَيْنِ

While Islam gets one of the two beauties.

Spoils that only the records of the two guard angels can compass,

طريدَ الرَّوْعِ لَوْ حَسِبَ الزُّبانى

تلاحِظُهُ لَغارَ مع البُطَيْنِ

As if the land had gently come to us walking

With the mounts of Wajrah or the two slopes of Shi'b,

وكلُّ مُخادِعٍ لَكَ لم يُخَادِعْ

حُسامَكَ منه حَسْمُ الأَخْدَعَيْنِ

Adorned with the highest and proudest of necks bent over

With arms bound as captives between two banners.

هَوَتْ بِهِمُ مَوَاطِئُ كُلِّ غَدْرٍ

إِلَى أَخْزى موارِدِ كُلِّ حَيْنِ

Royal tents whose ropes your sword has loosened

From their fixings out of energy and pride.

لسيفٍ لا تَقِي حَدَّاهُ نَفْساً

تَرَاءى من وراءِ الصَّفْحَتَيْنِ

Oh joy of spears and pride between two swords on day of might!

And oh iron rod who pierces the thickness of the two armours!

فباءَ عِداكَ من خُلفِ الأَمانِي

ومن فَقْدِ الحياةِ بِخَيْبَتَيْنِ

With the stabbing of two most generous and bountiful,

And the striking of two most glorious and perfect.

فللإِشراكِ كِلْتا الخِزْيَتَيْنِ

وللإِسلامِ إِحْدى الحُسْنَيَيْنِ

To God belong the pulpits when a conquest comes

After the two glad tidings!

مغانِمُ لا يُحيطُ بِهِنَّ إِلّا

حسابُ الكاتِبَيْنِ الحافِظَيْنِ

If "Fath" (conquest) is its name, then "Tamam" (fulfilment)

Is its title, completing the two bounties.

كَأَنَّ الأَرضَ جاءَتْنَا تَهادى

بِوَجْرَةَ أَوْ بِشِعْبَيْ رَامَتَيْنِ

A conquest that covered the whole world in darkness,

Beneath it bowed the necks of the people of the two scriptures.

بكُلِّ أَغَرَّ سامِي الطَّرْفِ غُلَّتْ

يداهُ للإِسارِ بيارِقَيْنِ

Everywhere the cross fell dead,

Lying slain on its face and palms.

وأَغْيَدَ أَذْهَلَتْ سَيفاكَ عَنهُ

هَرِيتَ الشِّدْقِ عَبْلَ السَّاعِدَيْنِ

The exploits of two wealthy ones have prevailed, flourishing In the spheres of glories.

Ambitions that compete racing

فيا سُمْرَ القَنا زَهْواً وفخراً

بَيْنَ الجَحْفَلَيْنِ

For the inheritance of Mundhir and Hujr’s realm,

Two suns showing superiority and pride over all glory,

ويا قُضُبَ الحديدِ خَلاَكِ ذَمٌّ

بما أَحْرَزْتِ من قَصَبِ اللُّجَيْنِ

So renounce praising them and the west!

Two seas of generosity, lions against every opponent,

بطَعْنِ الأَكرَمَيْنِ الأَجْوَدَيْنِ

وضربِ الأَمجَدَيْنِ الأَنْجَدَيْنِ

Thus ban your two enemies from visiting the two cattle enclosures!

And oh Qutb of Glory, you have bestowed bounty

فلِلَّهِ المنابِرُ يومَ تَبأَى

بفتحٍ جاءَ يتلُو البُشْرَيَيْنِ

That you have completed through the two sweet basils!

May the two delightful ones you gave birth to

لئِنْ كَانَ اسمُهُ فِي الأَرضِ فَتْحاً

فَكُنْيَتُهُ تمامُ النِّعمتَيْنِ

Always remain joy to the eyes of Islam!

فتوحٌ عَمَّتِ الدنيا وذَلَّتْ

لَهُنَّ رقابُ أَهلِ الخافِقَيْنِ

وخَرَّ لَهَا الصليبُ بكلِّ أَرضٍ

صريعاً للجبينِ ولِلْيَدَيْنِ

مآثِرُ عامِرِيَّينِ اسْتَبَدَّا

لساحاتِ المكارِمِ عامِرَيْنِ

وهِمَّاتٌ تَنازَعُ سابِقاتٍ

إِلَى ميراثِ مُلْكِ التُّبَّعَيْنِ

هما شمسا مفارِقِ كلِّ فخْرٍ

فَخَلِّ سَناهُما والمَغْرِبَيْنِ

وبحرَا الجودِ ليثا كلِّ غابٍ

فَكِلْ عَدْوَيْهِمَا بالعُدْوَتَيْنِ

ويا قُطْبَ العُلا مُلِّيتَ نُعْمى

تَمَلّاها بقُرْبِ الفَرْقَدَيْنِ

فَقُرَّةُ أَعيُنِ الإِسلامِ أَلّا

تزالَ بمَنْ وَلَدْتَ قَريرَ عَيْنِ