قد أجْمَعوا كَيْدَهُمْ قومٌ وقد جَمَعوا

قد أجْمَعوا كَيْدَهُمْ قومٌ وقد جَمَعوا

جُنْداً لهمْ بينَ قاصِيٍّ ودانِيِّ

جُنْداً لهمْ بينَ قاصِيٍّ ودانِيِّ

Some people have resolved upon their plot, and have gathered

They have gathered their cunning, a people, and they have gathered

an army for themselves from far and near.

An army for them, between the far and the near

رامو أذانا وباتوا في مُوامَرَةٍ

رامو أذانا وباتوا في مُوامَرَةٍ

تَسِنُّ بالوَهْمِ أنيابَ الرُّقاطِيِّ

تَسِنُّ بالوَهْمِ أنيابَ الرُّقاطِيِّ

They sought to harm us and spent the night in a conspiracy

They intended harm and spent the night plotting

that, in delusion, sharpens the fangs of speckled serpents.

So that the fangs of the wretched may sharpen in delusion

صُلْنا عليهمْ بِعَزْمٍ أحْمَدِيِّ يَدٍ

صُلْنا عليهمْ بِعَزْمٍ أحْمَدِيِّ يَدٍ

يَرُدُّ بالمَحْقِ وَثَّابَ الأفاعِيِّ

يَرُدُّ بالمَحْقِ وَثَّابَ الأفاعِيِّ

We charged upon them with the resolve of an Ahmadian hand,

We prayed against them with an resolute Ahmadi hand

that repels, through annihilation, the leaping one among the vipers.

That repels with eradication the coils of snakes

وشَبَّ فيهمْ شِهابُ السِّرِّ فانْمَحَقوا

وشَبَّ فيهمْ شِهابُ السِّرِّ فانْمَحَقوا

كَذاكَ غاراتُ مَوْلانا الرِّفاعِيِّ

كَذاكَ غاراتُ مَوْلانا الرِّفاعِيِّ

And the meteor of the secret blazed among them, so they were obliterated.

And the flame of mystery flared up in them, so they were destroyed

Such are the raids of our master al-Rifa‘i.

Thus are the raids of our Master Ar-Rifa’i