انظر منازل آل منقذ إنها

انظر منازل آل منقذ إنها

عظة اللبيب وعبرة للناظر

عظة اللبيب وعبرة للناظر

Look at the dwellings of the house of Munqidh; they are

Behold the abodes of the family of Manqidh

a warning to the wise and a lesson to the beholder.

They are lessons for the wise and admonitions for the onlooker

كانوا بها في نعمة محروسة

كانوا بها في نعمة محروسة

بمكارم وذوابل وبواتر

بمكارم وذوابل وبواتر

They lived there in prosperity, protected

They dwelt there in protected prosperity

by noble deeds, slender spears, and keen swords.

With virtues, achievements, and glories

ما رامها ملك ولا ذو قدرة

ما رامها ملك ولا ذو قدرة

إلا انثنى عنها بقلب طائر

إلا انثنى عنها بقلب طائر

No king, nor anyone with power, sought to seize them

No king or man of authority coveted them

without turning back from them, his heart fluttering in fear,

Except he retreated from them, his heart fluttering

متلهفا ما اسطاعها ومن الذي

متلهفا ما اسطاعها ومن الذي

يلج العرين على الهزير الخادر

يلج العرين على الهزير الخادر

in anguish, unable to take them. And who would

Yearning for them but unable to obtain them

enter the den to confront the lion lurking there?

And who dares to enter the lair of the watchful lion?

فأصابها قدر فأهلك من بها

فأصابها قدر فأهلك من بها

وأعاد شامخها كرسم دائر

وأعاد شامخها كرسم دائر

Then fate struck them and destroyed those within,

But fate befell them and destroyed those within

and left their towering structures like an effaced trace.

And returned its lofty edifices to the cycle of fate

فإذا ذكرتهم عرتني حسرة

فإذا ذكرتهم عرتني حسرة

تمري سحائب دمعي المتبادر

تمري سحائب دمعي المتبادر

And whenever I remember them, grief overtakes me,

When I remember them, a sorrow seizes me

drawing rain from the clouds of my rushing tears.

Clouds of my rushing tears gather