أَلَم يَبلُغكَ ما لاقَت قُرَيشٌ

أَلَم يَبلُغكَ ما لاقَت قُرَيشٌ

وَحَيُّ بَني كِنانَةَ إِذ أُثيروا

وَحَيُّ بَني كِنانَةَ إِذ أُثيروا

Have you not heard what Quraysh endured,

Did not the news reach you of what Quraysh faced,

and the clan of Banu Kinanah, when they were roused?

And the clan of Kinanah, when we attacked them,

دَهَمناهُم بِأَرعَنَ مُكفَهِرٍّ

دَهَمناهُم بِأَرعَنَ مُكفَهِرٍّ

فَظَلَّ لَنا بِعَقوَتِهِم زَئيرُ

فَظَلَّ لَنا بِعَقوَتِهِم زَئيرُ

We fell upon them with a towering, grim host,

With growling lions in the early gloom -

so our roar kept resounding in their courtyard.

Their wailing was our music at daybreak.

نُقَوِّمُ مارِنَ الخَطِيِّ فيهِم

نُقَوِّمُ مارِنَ الخَطِيِّ فيهِم

يَجيءُ عَلى أَسِنَّتِنا الجَزيرُ

يَجيءُ عَلى أَسِنَّتِنا الجَزيرُ

We straighten the pliant shafts of Khatt spears in them;

We straighten the bent spear shafts back to true

butchered flesh comes upon our spearheads.

And death comes to them on our whetted blades.

سَيُخبِرُ أَهلَ وَجٍّ مَن كَتَمتُم

سَيُخبِرُ أَهلَ وَجٍّ مَن كَتَمتُم

وَتَذمي مَن أَلَمَّ بِها القُبورُ

وَتَذمي مَن أَلَمَّ بِها القُبورُ

The people of Wajj will be told whom you concealed,

The young warriors of Wajj will tell their kin

and the graves will reproach whoever visits them.

Of those whose graves are still mourned over.