1. دونكموها يا بَني هاشمٍ

    فجدِّدُوا من آيِها الطامِسا

    Take it, O sons of Hashim!

    And restore its effaced signs.

  2. دونكموها لا علا كعبُ من

    أمسى عليكم مُلْكَها نافِسا

    Take it—may he never rise in stature who

    Has come to begrudge you its sovereignty.

  3. دونَكموها فالبَسوا تاجَها

    لا تَعدَموا منكمْ لهُ لابِسا

    Take it, and wear its crown;

    May you never lack among you one to wear it.

  4. خلافة الله وسلطانه

    وعنصر كان لكم دارسا

    God’s caliphate and His dominion,

    And an ancestral root of yours that had faded away.

  5. قد ساسها قبلكم ساسة

    ما اختار إلا منكم فارسا

    Rulers have governed it before you;

    It chose no knight save one from among you.

  6. لو خُيِّر المِنبرُ فرسانَه

    ما اختارَ إلاّ منكمُ فارِسا

    Were the pulpit given a choice of its knights,

    It would choose no knight save one from among you.

  7. والمُلْكُ لو شُوِورَ في سائسٍ

    لما ارتضى غيرَكم سائسا

    And were sovereignty consulted about a ruler,

    It would accept no ruler other than you.

  8. لم يُبْقِ عبدُ الله بالشام من

    آل أبي العاص امرأ عاطِسا

    Abd Allah did not leave in Syria, of

    The house of Abu al-As, a single sneezing man.

  9. فلستُ من أن تملكوها إلى

    هبوطِ عيسى منكمُ آيِسا

    So I am not, as to your ruling it until

    Jesus’s descent, without hope in you.