أَرى آلَ يُربوعٍ وَأَفناءَ مالِكٍ

أَعضُّوكَ في الحَربِ الحَديدِ المُنَقَّبا

I see the tribe of Yarbou' and the estates of Malik

They attack you in war with honed iron

هُمُ رَفعوا فَأسَ اللِجامِ فَأَدرَكَت

لِهاتَكَ حَتّى لَم تَدع لَكَ مَشرَبا

They raised the axe of dissolution but your blows

Prevailed over them and left them no drink

فَإِن عُدتَ عادوا بِالَّتي لَيسَ فَوقَها

مِنَ الشَرِّ إِلاّ أَن تَبيتَ مُحَجَّبا

If you return, they will retaliate in ways

Worse than you can imagine, beyond description

وَتُصبِح تُدري الكُعكَبِيَّةَ قاعِدا

وَيُنتَفَ مِن ليتيكَ ما كانَ أَزغَبا

You will wake to find yourself sitting confined

With your splendor stripped bare of its glow

فَهَل سَأَلوا فينا سَواءَ الَّذي لَهُم

وَهَل نَحنُ أَعطَينا سِواهُ فَتَعجَبا

Did they ask us the same that they took for themselves?

Did we give them anything other than wonder and awe?