1. أَلَم تَرَنا أَولادَ عَمروِ بنِ عامِرٍ

    لَنا شَرَفٌ يَعلو عَلى كُلِّ مُرتَقي

    Have you not seen us, the sons of Amr ibn Amir?

    Ours is a nobility rising above every summit.

  2. رَسا في قَرارِ الأَرضِ ثُمَّ سَمَت بِهِ

    فُروعُ تُسامي كُلَّ نَجمٍ مُحَلَّقِ

    It stood rooted in earth's depths, then was raised aloft

    by branches that rival every high-soaring star.

  3. مُلوكٌ وَأَبناءُ المُلوكِ كَأَنَّنا

    سَواري نُجومٍ طالِعاتٍ بِمَشرِقِ

    Kings and sons of kings, we are like

    night-faring stars rising in the east.

  4. إِذا غابَ مِنها كَوكَبٌ لاحَ بَعدَهُ

    شِهابٌ مَتى ما يَبدُ لِلأَرضِ تُشرِقِ

    When one star among them sets, there appears after it

    a blazing star: whenever it appears to earth, she shines.

  5. لِكُلِّ نَجيبٍ مُنجِبٍ زَخَرَت بِهِ

    مُهَذَّبَةٌ أَعراقُها لَم تُرَهَّقِ

    For each noble sire of noble sons, the mother who bore him

    was nobly bred, her ancestry never sullied.

  6. كَجَفنَةَ وَالقَمقامِ عَمروُ بنِ عامِرٍ

    وَأَولادِ ماءِ المُزنِ وَاِبني مُحَرَّقِ

    Like Jafna and the mighty chieftain Amr ibn Amir,

    and the sons of Maʾ al-Muzn and the two sons of Muharriq,

  7. وَحارِثَةَ الغِطريفِ أَو كَاِبنِ مُنذِرٍ

    وَمِثلِ أَبي قابوسَ رَبِّ الخَوَرنَقِ

    and Haritha the noble lord, or like the son of Mundhir,

    and like Abu Qabus, lord of al-Khawarnaq.

  8. أولَئِكَ لا الأَوغادُ في كُلِّ مَأقِطٍ

    يَرُدّونَ شَأوَ العارِضِ المُتَأَلِّقِ

    Those men, not the baseborn, on every battlefield

    repel the onrush of the flashing storm-cloud,

  9. بِطَعنٍ كَإيزاعِ المَخاضِ رَشاشُهُ

    وَضَربٍ يُزيلُ الهامَ مِن كُلِّ مَفرِقِ

    with spear-thrusts whose spray is like pregnant camels' spurting urine,

    and blows that cleave heads at every crown.

  10. أَتانا رَسولُ اللَهِ لِما تَجَهَّمَت

    لَهُ الأَرضُ يَرميهِ بِها كُلُّ موفِقِ

    The Messenger of God came to us when

    the earth scowled at him, and every marksman shot at him there.

  11. تُطَرِّدُهُ أَفناءُ قَيسٍ وَخِندِفٍ

    كَتائِبُ إِن لا تَعدُ لِلرَوعِ تَطرُقِ

    The clans of Qays and Khindif kept driving him away—

    battalions that, if not charging into battle, raided by night.

  12. فَكُنّا لَهُ مِن سائِرِ الناسِ مَعقِلاً

    أَشَمَّ مَنيعاً ذا شَماريخَ شُهَّقِ

    So we, from among all people, became his stronghold,

    lofty, impregnable, with towering peaks,

  13. مُكَلَّلَةٍ بِالمَشرَفِيِّ وَبِالقَنا

    بِها كُلُّ أَظمى ذي غِرارَينِ أَزرَقِ

    crowned with Mashrafi swords and with spears,

    bearing every dusky weapon, blue-grey and double-edged.

  14. تَذودُ بِها عَن أَرضِها خَزرَجِيَّةٌ

    كَأَسدِ كَراءٍ أَو كَجَنَّةِ نَمنَقِ

    With these a Khazraji host defends its land,

    like the lions of Karaʾ, or the jinn of Namnaq.

  15. تُؤازِرُها أَوسِيَّةٌ مالِكِيَّةٌ

    رِقاقُ السُيوفِ كَالعَقائِقِ ذُلَّقِ

    An Awsi host of Malik's line lends it aid,

    with slender swords like lightning-flashes, keen-edged.

  16. نَفى الذَمَّ عَنّا كُلَّ يَومِ كَريهَةٍ

    طِعانٌ كَتَضريمِ الأَباءِ المُحَرَّقِ

    On every day of battle, blame was kept from us

    by spear-thrusts like the blazing of reeds set alight,

  17. وَإِكرامُنا أَضيافُنا وَوَفاؤُنا

    بِما كانَ مِن إِلٍّ عَلَينا وَمَوثِقِ

    and by our honoring our guests and keeping faith

    with every covenant and solemn pledge binding upon us.

  18. فَنَحنُ وُلاةُ الناسِ في كُلِّ مَوطِنٍ

    مَتى ما نَقُل في الناسِ قَولاً نُصَدَّقِ

    So we are the rulers of men in every place;

    whenever we utter a word among the people, we are believed.

  19. تُوَفَّقُ في أَحكامِنا حُكَماؤُنا

    إِذا غَيرُهُم في مِثلِها لَم يُوَفَّقِ

    Our sages are rightly guided in our judgments,

    when others in such matters are not rightly guided.