1. قلْ لقومٍ ما لكمْ في

    ما قضى الرّحمن حِيلَهْ

    Say to a people: you have no recourse against

    what the All-Merciful has decreed.

  2. كانتِ النّياتُ منكمْ

    كلُّها غيرَ جَميلَهْ

    Your intentions were

    all far from noble.

  3. رمتُمُ الغِيلةَ والمُغْ

    تالُ من يذهب غِيلَهْ

    You sought treacherous murder; its victim

    is he who perishes by treachery.

  4. ومودَّاتٌ لكمْ ما

    تتْ وقد كانت عليلَهْ

    And affections for you have died,

    having already been ailing.

  5. ربّ من يرجع بالنّق

    صِ وقد أمَّ الفضيلَهْ

    Many a person returns diminished,

    though he had sought virtue.

  6. لم تكنْ دولتُكمْ إل

    لا كما نهوى فَلِيلَهْ

    Your rule was only

    as we wished it—broken.

  7. فخذوها حسرةً تَبْ

    قى على الدّهر طويلَهْ

    So take it as a grief that will remain

    long throughout the ages.

  8. لمُرَدّيكمْ وشيكاً

    مِنّةٌ فينا جزيلَهْ

    He who swiftly lays you low

    does us a mighty kindness.

  9. ما ضربتمْ يومَ جدّلْ

    تُمْ بأسيافٍ كَليلَهْ

    You were not struck, the day you were felled,

    with blunted swords.

  10. لا ولا جادتْ عليكمْ

    بالرّدى كفٌّ بخيلَهْ

    No, nor were you showered

    with death by a miserly hand.