يا آلَ تَميمٍ أَلا لِلَّهِ أُمُّكُمُ

يا آلَ تَميمٍ أَلا لِلَّهِ أُمُّكُمُ

لَقَد رُميتُم بِإِحدى المُصمئِلّاتِ

لَقَد رُميتُم بِإِحدى المُصمئِلّاتِ

O clan of Tamim—ah, God bless your mother!

O clan of Tamim, by Allah, he is your protector

You have indeed been struck by one of the crushing calamities.

You have been hit with one of the fatal blows

فَاِستَشعِروا بِثِيابِ اللُؤمِ وَاِعتَرِفوا

فَاِستَشعِروا بِثِيابِ اللُؤمِ وَاِعتَرِفوا

إِن لَم تَروعوا بَني أَفصى بِغاراتِ

إِن لَم تَروعوا بَني أَفصى بِغاراتِ

So wear the garments of baseness against your skin, and confess,

So dress yourselves in the garments of infamy and confess

If you do not terrify the sons of Afsa with raids,

If you are not deterred, O sons of eloquence, by raids

وَتَقتُلوا بِفَتى الفِتيانِ قاتِلَهُ

وَتَقتُلوا بِفَتى الفِتيانِ قاتِلَهُ

أَو تُقتَلونَ جَميعاً غَيرَ أَشتاتِ

أَو تُقتَلونَ جَميعاً غَيرَ أَشتاتِ

And kill his killer in vengeance for the finest of youths,

And you kill the killer of the best of young men

Or you are slain all together, not in scattered groups.

Or you all die, scattered, not united

لَلَّهِ دَرُّ فَتىً مَرّوا بِهِ أُصُلاً

لَلَّهِ دَرُّ فَتىً مَرّوا بِهِ أُصُلاً

مُهَشَّمَ الوَجهِ مَكسورَ الثَنِيّاتِ

مُهَشَّمَ الوَجهِ مَكسورَ الثَنِيّاتِ

God bless the youth they brought past in the late afternoon,

Praise Allah for a young man they passed by

His face battered, his front teeth broken.

His face mutilated, his bones broken

راحوا بِأَبيَضَ مِثلِ البَدرِ يَحمِلُهُ

راحوا بِأَبيَضَ مِثلِ البَدرِ يَحمِلُهُ

غُتمُ العُلوجِ بَأَقيادٍ مُذِلّاتِ

غُتمُ العُلوجِ بَأَقيادٍ مُذِلّاتِ

They went off with a fair youth like the full moon, borne

They took away the one white like the full moon

In humiliating fetters by foreign brutes of unintelligible speech.

The slaves of injustice, in humiliating shackles