1. كيفَ المآلُ إذا تكونُ الحالُ

    بالجزعِ تَقضي نِسوةٌ ورِجالُ

    What will the outcome be, when things are such—

    Women and men perish in anguish?

  2. هذا الضعيفُ أمامَكم مُستَرحِماً

    يرجو النَّوال فهل لديكَ نَوالُ

    This helpless man is before you, pleading for mercy,

    Hoping for bounty—have you any bounty?

  3. هذا أبو الأيتامِ خلفَك سائِلاً

    وأبو اليتَامى دَأبُه التَّسآلُ

    Here is the father of orphans behind you, begging,

    And the father of orphans is ever asking.

  4. فَعَسَاكَ تُشفِقُ من ألِيمِ عَذابِه

    وإذا فعَلتَ فرَبُّنا فَعَّل

    Perhaps you will take pity on his painful suffering;

    And if you do, our Lord is ever at work.

  5. آه لأرملةٍ تقود صغارها

    والدمع من أجفانهم هطال

    Alas for a widow leading her little ones,

    While tears pour from their eyelids!

  6. آهٍ لَها آهٍ لها آهٍ لَها

    لو كانَ يُجدي آه حينَ يُقالُ

    Alas for her, alas for her, alas for her!

    If only 'alas' could help when spoken!

  7. ظلَّت تَطوفُ على الأكُفِّ بهم وما

    أجداهمُ الإدبارُ والإٍِقبالُ

    She kept going from hand to hand with them, but

    Their going and coming brought them no relief.

  8. حتى إذا ما الليلُ أقبلَ كاشِراً

    مُتَبِّيناً من منهمُ يَغتالُ

    Until, when night approached, baring its teeth,

    Picking out which of them it would slay,

  9. وجرت دموعُ اليأسِ فوقَ خُدودهم

    واليأسُ تَعلمُ أنَّه قَتَّالُ

    And tears of despair flowed over their cheeks—

    And despair, you know, is deadly—

  10. نَظروا السماءَ بأعينٍ مُبتَلَّةٍ

    وعلى التُّرابِ لهم فِراشٌ مَالوا

    They gazed at the sky with tear-wet eyes,

    And lay down upon the dust, their bed.

  11. فَيبيتُ يغزو بالسُّمومِ جُسومَهم

    أما الجَليدُ فَللجلودِ وبَالُ

    So it spends the night assailing their bodies with poisons;

    As for frost, it is a scourge upon their skin.

  12. آهٍ لأطفالٍ صِغارٍ أوشَكَت

    بالجُوعِ تَقضِي نَحبَها الأطفالُ

    Alas for little children—so close

    Are the children to dying of hunger!

  13. آه لأطفال تجود بنفسها

    في حجر أمٍّ دمعها سيال

    Alas for children yielding up their lives

    In the lap of a mother whose tears stream down!

  14. آهٍ لأشياخٍ تَفانى جِسمُهُم

    فكأنهم لِشُحوبِهم أطلالُ

    Alas for old men whose bodies have wasted away,

    So, in their pallor, they seem like ruins.

  15. عارٌ علينا أن تَموت ضِعافُنَا

    جوعاً وتفضُلَ عندنا الأموالُ

    It is a disgrace to us that our weak should die

    Of hunger, while we have wealth to spare.

  16. إخوانَنا ألله في إخواننا

    فبِبَطنِهم تَتَقَطَّعُ الأوصَالُ

    Our brothers, fear God in how you treat our brothers!

    For their innards are being torn apart.

  17. ألله في البؤَساءِ إنَّكَ مِنهُمُ

    لولا كريمٌ واهبٌ مِفضالُ

    Fear God concerning the wretched: you would be among them,

    But for a generous, bountiful giver.

  18. لا فرقَ بينكمُ وبينهمُ سِوى

    أنتم ذَوو مالٍ وهُم لا مالُ

    There is no difference between you and them except:

    You possess wealth, and they have none.

  19. ولَكَم مُقِلٍّ قبلُ أصبحَ ذا غِنىً

    وأخِي غِنىً قد نابَهُ الإقلالُ

    And how many a once-poor man has become wealthy,

    And many a wealthy man has been overtaken by poverty!

  20. قد ساءتِ الأحوالُ لكن ما نرَى

    منكم به تَتَحَسَّنُ الأحوالُ

    Conditions have worsened, but what we see

    From you is making conditions better.

  21. جمعٌ لنورِ الهَدي نُورٌ واهتِدا

    وَلذِى الضَّلالِ مَسَبَّةٌ وضَلالُ

    A gathering for guidance's light is light and guidance,

    And for one astray, it is reproach and error.

  22. حققتمُ الآمالَ في إخوانكِم

    حاشا تَخيبُ لديكمُ الآمالُ

    You have made your brothers' hopes come true;

    Far be it that hopes should fail with you!

  23. سَألوا فلَبَّيتُم سُؤالَ ذَويكمُ

    ما ضاعَ بين المُسلمينَ سُؤالُ

    They asked, and you answered the plea of your own people;

    No plea among Muslims has gone unanswered.

  24. ضاءت قلوبُكمُ بنورِ هِدايةٍ

    إيَّاكمُ أن يَعتَريه مَلالُ

    Your hearts have shone with the light of guidance;

    Beware lest weariness overtake it.

  25. سِيمَا وبَاشانا وكَهفُ مَلاذِنا

    ألقولُ قَولٌ والفِعالُ فِعالُ

    Especially with our Pasha, the cave of our refuge:

    Words are words, and deeds are deeds.

  26. ما القولُ قَولٌ عِندَه إن لَم تكُن

    منكم بِهِ قَد شُفِّعت أعمالُ

    To him, words are not words unless

    Deeds from you have been joined to them.

  27. ولَقد رأيتُم منهُ صولَةَ ضَيغَمٍ

    في رِقَّةٍ هىَ للزُّلالِ زلاَلُ

    And you have indeed seen in him a lion's charge,

    Within a gentleness that is clear water to clear water.

  28. ورأيتُمُ رُوحا أخفَّ مِن الوِصا

    لِ على مُحِبٍّ طالَ عنه وِصَالُ

    And you have seen a spirit lighter than reunion

    To a lover long without reunion.

  29. ورَأيتُم إخلاصَه ورأيتُم

    منهُ الذِي به يَستسِرُّ الحالُ

    And you have seen his sincerity, and you have seen

    From him that by which the state of affairs is concealed.

  30. فَتآزرُوا وتَناصَرُوا مِن حولِه

    إنَّا النُّجومُ وإنهُ لهِلاَلُ

    So join forces and support one another around him;

    We are the stars, and he is indeed a crescent moon.

  31. وبِحقِّه وبحقِّكُم قولُوا معِي

    لِيُدم له الإعظامُ والإجلالُ

    And for his sake and yours, say with me:

    May veneration and reverence endure for him.