رَمَى الجَاهِلُ البَاغِي فَأَوْدَى بِجَارِهِ

تَوَهمَ أَنَّ اللهَ بِالشَّرِّ يُخْدَمُ

The ignorant oppressor attacked and destroyed his neighbor

Believing that evil serves God

فمَا قَوْلُكُمْ فِي مُصْلِحٍ صُنْعَ رَبِّهِ

وَحِكْمَتُهُ قَوْسٌ وَمَغْزَاهُ أَسْهُمُ

What do you say of one who improves the work of his Lord?

His wisdom is a bow and his means are arrows

أَيَنْقُضُ حَرْباً لَمْ يَرَ اللهُ نَقْصَهُ

وَيَنْمِي عَدِيدَ وَاللهُ مُرغَمُ

Does he undo a war not diminished by God?

And multiply armies while God is forced?

أَلا أَيُّهَا الجَّانِي عَلَى نُظَرَائِهِ

وَإِخْوَتِهِ سَاءَ الَّذِي تَتَوَهَّمُ

Oh you who wrong your peers and brothers

Evil is what you assume

أَخَاكَ فَأَحْبِبْهُ بِأَنَّكَ نَاصِرٌ

لِعِيسَى وَسَالِمْهُ بِأَنَّكَ مُسْلِمُ

Love your brother for you are Christ's helper

And greet him well for you are Muslim

وَإِلاَّ فَأَيَّاً كَانَ دِينُكَ لَمْ تَكُنْ

مُجَاهِدَ حَرْبٍ إِنَّمَا أَنْتَ مُجْرِمُ

Otherwise whatever your religion you were no

Warrior but a criminal

أَيُقْبِلُ يَوْمٌ تَنْتَفِي مِنْ نُفُوسِنَا

ضَغَائِنُ تَخْبُو حِقْبَةً ثُمَّ تُضْرَمُ

Will there come a day when hatred in our souls

Hidden for an era then ignited, passes?

وَقَفْنَا بِهَا مُسْتَأْخِرِينَ لِضِعْفِنَا

وَأَدْنَى البَرَايَا دُونَنَا تَتَقَدَّمُ

We stand behind it weakened while

The lowest of creatures surpass us