جُزيتَ الطَيِّباتِ أَخاً لِقَومٍ

جُزيتَ الطَيِّباتِ أَخاً لِقَومٍ

أَخاً يا عُروَ كُنتَ لَهُم جِماعا

أَخاً يا عُروَ كُنتَ لَهُم جِماعا

May you be rewarded with blessings, a brother to a people—

You were rewarded with blessings, O brother of a people

a brother, O ʿUrwa—you were their unifying bond.

O Urwa you were a leader for them

وَثَغرٍ قَد شَهِدتَ فَلَم تُضِعهُ

وَثَغرٍ قَد شَهِدتَ فَلَم تُضِعهُ

وَلَولا ما شَهِدتَ لَكانَ ضاعا

وَلَولا ما شَهِدتَ لَكانَ ضاعا

And many a frontier you manned and did not neglect;

And a gaping wound you witnessed but did not expose

but for your presence, it would have been lost.

Had you not witnessed it, it would have been lost

وَكَم مِن مَأزِقٍ جَلَّيتَ عَنهُ

وَكَم مِن مَأزِقٍ جَلَّيتَ عَنهُ

إِذا كانَ الرِجالُ بِهِ رَعاعا

إِذا كانَ الرِجالُ بِهِ رَعاعا

And how many a perilous strait you delivered them from,

And how many straits did you clear from it

when the men within it were a rabble.

When the men were with it commoners

تَخَيَّرَتِ المَنايا يَومَ زارَت

تَخَيَّرَتِ المَنايا يَومَ زارَت

نَواصِيَنا تُقَمِّعُها اِنقِماعا

نَواصِيَنا تُقَمِّعُها اِنقِماعا

Death singled out, on the day it visited,

Death chose when it visited

our forelocks, crushing them into submission.

Our foreheads it lowers them in submission