سلام عليكم من ورا البحر أينما

حللتم فلا تاسوا هي الحال مثلما

Peace be upon you from across the sea, wherever

you may settle. Do not grieve—such is the way of things, even as

بكينا ولكن لا عليكم بكاؤنا

فأيكم المعدود بالحق مجرما

we have wept; yet let our weeping not trouble you.

For which of you is truly reckoned a criminal?

ولكن هي الأحرار هذا مآلها

فحينئذ قل أصبح النفي سلما

But this is the way of the free; this is their fate.

Then you may say: exile has become a ladder.

نلاقي الذي لاقاه في الحق مثلكم

ونرقى كما ترقى الكواكب في السما

We too shall meet what, for truth’s sake, the likes of you have met,

and rise as the stars rise through the heavens.

فأين رضا من كان في دار غربة

على سغب طورا وطورا على ظما

And where now is Rida, who once dwelt in a house of exile,

at times in hunger and at times in thirst?

هو اليوم في دست الإمارة حاكم

وحوله من كاوا الأذلة في الحمى

Today he sits upon the seat of command, a ruler,

surrounded by those once humbled within the homeland.

على رسلكم يا نازحون فإنما

سيرجع كل للايالة مكرما

Take heart, you who have journeyed far, for surely

each shall return, honored, to the province.

وينتقم الديان من كل خائن

يريد انحلالا لاعتصاب تحتما

The Judge will take vengeance upon every traitor

who seeks to dissolve a union firmly ordained.

فبشره قبل الموت بالخزي وصمة

تذيقه من كأس المعرة علقما

Before he dies, give him the tidings of disgrace—a stigma

that makes him taste gall from the cup of ignominy.

سيقي له التاريخ ذكرا مشوها

يسوق من اللعنات جيشا عرمرما

History will preserve for him a disfigured memory

and marshal against him a vast army of curses.

ويلحقه بالأخسرين نكالة

ويذروه مطروحا هشيما محطما

It will consign him to the greatest losers, as punishment,

and scatter him, cast down like shattered straw.

فسيماه فوق الوجه كل منافق

لتنذر فينا كل من كان مسلما

The mark of every hypocrite lies upon his face,

so that every Muslim among us may take warning.

كذاك مآل الخائنين نظيره

كذلك قال اللّه فيهم فدمدما

Such is the fate of traitors—and of every one like him;

so has God spoken of them, and crushed them utterly.