1. أَفيقوا بَني غالِبٍ وَاِنتَهوا

    عَنِ البَغيِ في بَعضِ ذا المَنطِقِ

    Come to your senses, sons of Ghalib, and desist

    From wrongdoing in some of this talk.

  2. وَإِلّا فَإِنّي إِذاً خائِفٌ

    بَوائِقَ في دارِكُم تَلتَقي

    And if not, then I indeed fear

    Calamities converging in your abode,

  3. تَكونُ لِغَيرِكُمُ عِبرَةً

    وَرَبِّ المَغارِبِ وَالمَشرِقِ

    That will be a lesson to others,

    By the Lord of the wests and the east—

  4. كَما نالَ مَن كانَ مِن قَبلِكُم

    ثَمودٌ وَعادٌ فَمَن ذا بَقي

    Like what befell those who were before you:

    Thamud and Ad—who, then, survived?

  5. فَحَلَّ عَلَيهِم بِها سَخطَة

    مِنَ اللَهِ في ضَربَةِ الأَزرَقِ

    Then wrath descended upon them for it,

    From God, at the blue-eyed one's blow,

  6. غَداةَ أَتَتهُم بِها صَرصَرٌ

    وَناقَةُ ذي العَرشِ إِذ تَستَقي

    On the morning a fierce, cold wind brought it upon them,

    And the she-camel of the Lord of the Throne, when she sought water,

  7. غَداةَ يعضُّ بِعُرقوبِها

    حُساماً مِنَ الهِندِ ذا رَونَقِ

    On the morning he made her hock feel the bite

    Of a gleaming sword from India.

  8. وَأَعجَبُ مِن ذاكَ مِن أَمرِكُم

    عَجائِبُ في الحَجَرِ المُلصَقِ

    And stranger than that, among your affairs,

    Are marvels in the stone stuck fast

  9. بِكَفِّ الَّذي قامَ من حَينه

    إِلى الصابِرِ الصادِقِ المُتَّقي

    To the palm of the one who rose, driven by his doom,

    Against the patient, truthful, God-fearing man.

  10. فَأَيبَسَهُ اللَهِ في كَفِّهِ

    عَلى رغمِهِ الجائِرِ الأَحمَقِ

    So God made it rigid in his palm,

    Against the will of that unjust fool—

  11. أُحَيمِقِ مَخزومِكُم إِذ غَوى

    لِغَيّ الغُواةِ وَلَم يَصدُقِ

    Your Makhzum's little fool, when he went astray,

    Through the error of the erring, and spoke no truth.