لَقَد وَلّى أَلِيَّتَهُ جُؤيٌّ

مَعاشِرَ غَيرُ مَطَلولٍ أَخوها

Indeed, Juyi has turned his back

On companions who never failed him, his brothers.

فَاِن تَهلِك جُؤيُّ فَكُلُ نَفسٍ

سَيَجلِبُها كَذلِكَ جالِبوها

If Juyi perishes, every soul

Will meet the same fate as he did.

وَإِن تَهلِك جُؤيُّ فَإِنَّ حَرَباً

كَظَنِّكَ كانَ بَعدَك موقِدوها

If Juyi perishes, know that after you

War will blaze as you supposed it would.

وَما ساءَت ظُنونُكَ يَومَ تولي

بِأَرماحٍ وَفَى لَكَ مُشرِعوها

Your suspicions were not misplaced the day

You turned away, spears quenching their thirst.

كَأَنَّكَ كُنتَ تَعلَمُ يَومَ بُزَّت

ثِيابُكَ ما سَيَلقى سالِبوها

It was as if you knew, the day

Your clothes were torn, what despoilers would reap.

لِنَذرِكَ وَالنُذورُ لَها وَفاءٌ

إِذا بَلَغَ الخِزايَةَ بالِغوها

Your vows will be kept, vows have loyalty

When their fulfillment reaches the treasury.

صَبَحنا الخَزرَجِيَّةَ مُرهِفاتٍ

أَبادَ ذَوي أَرومَتِها ذَووها

We spent the morning as Khazrajite women

Whose loved ones destruction had bereaved.

فَما عُتِرَ الظِباءُ بِحَيِ كَعبٍ

وَلا الخَمسونَ قَصَّرَ طالِبوها

Neither ibexes nor fifty were exempted

In the Kaba, by those who sought them.

وَلا قُلنا لَهُم نَفسٌ بِنَفسٍ

أَقيدونا بِها إِن لَم تَدوها

We did not say to them, “A life for a life -

Give us the same if you refuse hers.”

وَلَكِنّا دَفَعناها ظِماءً

فَرَوّاها بِذِكرِكَ مُنهِلوها

But we repelled them thirsty

And let them drink deep of your memory.

وَلَو بَلَغَ القَتيلَ فِعالُ حُيٍّ

لَسَرَّكَ مِن سيوفِكَ مُنتَضوها

If the dead could know the deeds of the living,

Your swords would bring you joy in their flashing.