أقِلُّوا فقدْ عادَ البناةُ مُجدَّدا

بعينٍ لها الشيطانُ وابنهُ مهَّدا

Lessen, for the builders have returned to rebuild

With an eye for which Satan and his son have paved the way

على أرضِ نجدٍ والحجاز بمنْهجٍ

لعهدِ العُتاةِ من قريشٍ مُجَدِّدا

In the land of Najd and Hijaz with a method

To renew the era of the transgressors from Quraish

مؤاخاةُ أديانٍ وقدْ روّجُوا لها

وليستْ سوى إحياءِ شركٍ تبدَّدا

The fraternity of religions, and they have promoted it

It is nothing but the revival of polytheism that has faded away

بها تعدلُ الأوثانُ ربّاً مُوَحَّدا

ويعدلُ عمْرو بنُ هشامٍ مُحمَّدا

With it, idols equate the One God

And Amr bin Hisham equates Muhammad

بها يرقبُ الدجّالُ يومَ طلوعهِ

على اللّاتِ والعُزّى إلهًا مُسوَّدا

With it the Antichrist overlooks the day of his emergence

To Lat and Uzza as a blackened god

بها أُبدلَ الفِقهُ بشرحٍ مُهوَّدٍ

وشيخٌ مفقّهٌ بشيخٍ تهوَّدا

With it jurisprudence was replaced with adorned explanation

And a learned jurist with a jurist who adorned himself

أقِلّوا من التحليلِ والشّرحِ إذْ جلى

الغبارُ عن البيتِ الحرامِ مُصفَّدا

Lessen the analysis and interpretation, for the dust has cleared

From the Sacred House, chained

بألفٍ من الأصْنامِ قرْنُ كبيرِها

يبوحُ بأنّ اللّاتَ عادَ وشُيِّدا

With a thousand idols, the horn of its elder

It proclaims that Al-Lat has returned and been rebuilt

بدتْ مِنْ أعاليها كرسمٍ يشذُّ عنْ

هُ بيتٌ كما لو كان للحُسْنِ مُفْسِدا

From its heights, the form of something deviant has appeared

It is a house as if it were made to corrupt virtue

وعنْ مرقَصٍ فوق قُبورِ صحَابةٍ

بهِ حُيّيَ القيْنُ الّذي صارَ سيِّدا

And about a church above the graves of the Companions

In it, the priest who has become master was revived

وعنْ موكبِ الشّيطان يطويْ بلادَكمْ

ويتركُ عندَ كلِّ بابٍ مُجنَّدا

And about the procession of Satan traversing your countries

And leaving a soldier at every door

لرصْدِ الّذي أبى علىْ الجُندِ مخْدَعا

وقتْلِ الّذي في نومهِ غاثَ أحْمَدا

To ambush those who refused to be fooled by the army

And to kill those who in their sleep came to the aid of Ahmad

أقِلّوا الرّجاءَ في حقوقٍ يبثُّها

المَريدُ لكي تُمسوا لذي العينِ عُبَّدا

Lessen hope in rights that the loyalist dictates

To those whose eyes he has enslaved

إليها مردّ كل عقلٍ تبلّهَ

وكلّ فؤادٍ حسّهُ قد تبلّدا

To it turns back every mind he has confused

And every heart whose senses he has deadened

بها أصْبحَتْ ليلى تُباعُ وتُشترىْ

وأمسىْ الوليدُ للقِيانِ مُقلِّدا

With it, Layla became purchasable and sellable

And al-Walid became subservient to destruction

حقوقٌ بها الأهلُونَ شرٌّ من العِدا

بهمْ يغلبُ الشيطانُ غُلباً مُؤكَّدا

Rights with which the ignorant are an evil worse than enemies

With them, Satan wins a definite victory

بها تلتقونَ أجْدعاً كلّ ليلةٍ

علىْ ما افْترَشْتُموه جِسْماً مُمدَّدا

With them you meet tailless every night

Upon what you have spread out as an outstretched corpse

وأبناؤكُم ليسُوا بكُم إنّما بمَنْ

يبيعهمُ الإلْحادَ عِلْماً مُجرَّدا

And your children are not like you, rather with those

Who sells them atheism, bare knowledge

ونهْجاً مُمّدناً وجِنساً مُسلسَلا

وحِبراً وأقلاماً ورأْياً مؤيّدا

And civilized approach, chained ancestry

And ink and pens and supported opinion

أقِلّوا من النومِ فأعمارُكمْ سدىً

ومنْ يعِش اليومَ يكُنْ موتُهُ غدا

Lessen sleep, for your lives are in vain

And whoever lives today, his death will be tomorrow

وقدْ طالَ نومُكمْ وما طالَ يومُكمْ

فبتُّم ترونَ كلَّ خصمٍ مُخلَّدا

Your sleep has been long while your day has not

You have spent the night seeing every opponent as immortal

وقد سلَّط اللهُ عليكمْ مُذنَّبا

لنومٍ فجالَ في السّما مُتفرِّدا

And God has unleashed upon you a sinner

For sleep, so he has wandered alone in the sky

بخيطٍ من النارِ تظنّونَه الضِّيا

يخطُّ دروبَ الشّركِ في موطنِ الهُدى

With a thread of fire you think is lightning

Traversing the paths of polytheism in the abode of guidance

بحُرّيةٍ فُكَّ بها غُلُّ من ردى

وغُلَّ الكريمُ ذو الإباءِ وجُلِّدا

With a freedom with which the fetter of transgression was undone

And the precious one of dignity and humility was fettered

أقلّوا من اللهوِ فإنّه إنّ فشا

غدا لمصائرِ الشّعوبِ مُحّدِّدا

Lessen play, for if it spreads

It will determine the fate of nations tomorrow

وإنّ الهوانَ رحمُهُ القلبُ إنْ لها

ومقبرُهُ قلبٌ عن اللّهوِ أبعدا

And humiliation, may the heart have mercy on it if

And its graveyard is a heart far from play

وقد صارَ لهوكُمْ لذي العينِ مرْجِعا

وما يفعلُ الشيطانُ وابنهُ مَرْصَدا

For your play has become a refuge for he of the eye

And what Satan and his son have observed

على قدْرِ لهوِكمْ يكونُ هوانكُمْ

وإنّ لكم إنْ أيْقنوا الحالَ موْعِدا

According to your play will be your humiliation

And you will have, if you are certain of the situation, an appointment

أقلّوا خطاباً يرِدُ الدينَ مُفسِدا

وهُبّوا لسحقِ من عصا وتمرَّدا

Lessen discourse that corrupts religion, defiant

And leave the killing of Sheikh to a stick and rebellion

أوائلُهُ مدْحُ أميرٍ تهوَّدا

وآخرُهُ تضَرُّعٌ أنْ يُسَدَّدا

Its beginnings are praise of a leader who adorned himself

And its endings are supplications to be guided

وما بينَ ذا وذا رواياتُ مجدِكمْ

كأنّي بها أسْرى خطابٍ تردّدا

And what is between this and that are the battle glories of your past

As if I am reading fluctuating discourse

فيا تعسَ مجْدٍ يسْتعيدُهُ حَبركُمْ

ليقضيَ في الخطابِ حُكماً مُؤبَّدا

So woe to a glory your pens seek to restore

To pass in discourse an eternal judgment

أقلّوا وفرّحوا سيوفاً جراحُها

جراحُ الّذيْ باتَ لأهْليهِ فاقِدا

Lessen and unsheathe swords whose wounds

Are the wounds of one who has lost his family

أراها تسَربلَتْ بأدمُعها فيا

ليومٍ بهِ تسَربلَتْ بدمِ العِدا

I see them cloaked with their tears, so woe

To a day in which they cloaked themselves in the blood of enemies

أقلّوا فإنّ أصغرَ القومِ في العِدا

علىْ عُمدةِ الدّيارِ يعْدُ متى عَدا

Lessen, for the youngest of the people in enmity

Against the pillar of the abode counts when he passes judgement

أقلّوا فإنّكم ملاقوهُ طُوَّعا

وإنّ لقاءَ ربّكمْ ليسَ أبْعَدا

Lessen, for you will surely meet Him willingly

And surely the meeting with your Lord is no farther

أقلّوا لكيلا تخْسروا الدّينَ والدنى

فلنْ يبْسُطَ الناسُ لكمْ حينَها يَدا

Lessen so that you do not lose this life and the next

For then people will not extend to you a hand

أقلّوا فأكرمُ البيوتِ بيوتُكمْ

وأكرمُها ما انفكّ للحقِّ رافِدا

Lessen, for the most generous of houses are your houses

And the most generous of them is what continuously flows to the truth

أقلّوا فأوّلُ البيوتِ بداركِمْ

وأوّلُها ما انفكّ للنّاسِ مَقصِدا

Lessen, for the best of houses is your abode

And the best of them is what continuously flows to people as a place of return