لَحَيٌّ مِن أُمَيَّةَ لَي

سَ في أَخلاقِهِم رَنَقُ

A beard from Umayya is not

In their morals there is flamboyance

يَكونُ لِخابِطِ المَعرو

فِ في واديهِمُ وَرَقُ

There will be for the fabricator of poetry

In their valley a leaf

أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِن قَومٍ

إِذا ما أَصبَحوا نَعَقوا

More beloved to me than a people

Who when they wake up, they bleat

غَدَوا مِن دَورَجِ الكَريو

نِ حَيثُ سَفينُهُم حِزَقُ

Going early from a shipyard

Where their boat is worn-out

كَما يَغدو نَشاصٌ مِن

سَحابِ الصَيفِ مُنطَلِقُ

As a hunter goes early

From a summer cloud, speeding

فَلَمّا أَن عَلَونَ الني

لَ وَالراياتُ تَختَفِقُ

So when they ascended the Nile

And the flags flutter

رَأَيتُ الجَوهَرَ الحُكَمي

يَ وَالديباجَ يَأتَلِقُ

I saw the precious wisdom

And the brocade glittering

وَخَزَّ السوسِ وَالإِضري

جَ فَصَّلَ بَينَهُ السَرَقُ

And the lilac and myrtle bloomed

So the theft separated between them

وَخَملَ الأُرجُوانِ عَلى ال

سَفينِ كَأَنَّهُ العَلَقُ

And the purple adorned the

Boat as if it is the blood clot

سَفائِنُ غَيرُ مُقلَعَةٍ

إِلى حُلوانَ تَستَبِقُ

Unanchored boats

To Hulwan speeding

مَحَلٌّ قَد نَحُلُّ بِهِ

لَذيذٌ عَيشُهُ غَدِقُ

A place we endow with

A sweet life, flooding it

يَحِلُّ بِهِ اِبنُ لَيلى وَال

نَدى وَالحِلمُ وَالصِدِقُ

Inhabited by the son of Layla and the

Dew and dream and truth

تَكونُ جِفانُهُ رَغَداً

فَمَصبوحٌ وَمُغتَبَقُ

Its terrain will be comfortable

Happy and compressed

إِذا ما أَزحَفَت رُفَقٌ

أَتَت مِن دونِها رُفَقُ

If a company crept

Another company came after it