1. في كريم المرابع

    وصميم الأجارع

    In noble dwelling-grounds,

    And the heart of sandy tracts,

  2. امة من بسالة

    كونت لم تضارع

    A nation made of valor

    Was formed, never equaled.

  3. تقرع الخصم بالقنا

    والظبي ان تقارع

    It strikes the foe with spears,

    And sword blades when it does battle.

  4. تصرع الاسد عنوة

    في الفلا ان تصارع

    It fells the lion by force,

    In the wilderness, if it wrestles.

  5. فتية في زئيرهم

    زعزعٌ من زعازع

    Young men whose roaring holds

    A gale among gales.

  6. في حنايا قلوبهم

    محرقات الفواجع

    In the recesses of their hearts

    Are calamities' searing fires.

  7. في ثنايا صدورهم

    انة في الاضالع

    Within the folds of their breasts,

    A groan among their ribs.

  8. كلهم بين دامع ال

    طرف حزناً وخاشع

    All of them—some with tearful

    Eyes from sorrow, others humbled.

  9. قد اضاعوا شهيدهم

    في الليالي البواقع

    They have lost their martyr

    In nights of calamity.

  10. غاله من عرشهم

    خسة في الطبائع

    From their throne, he was treacherously slain

    By baseness of character.

  11. فاذا هم تذكروا

    قتله في البلاقع

    And when they remembered

    His killing in the wastelands,

  12. واذا هم تخاطروا

    نحوه بالاصابع

    And when they gestured to one another

    Toward him with their fingers,

  13. واذا هم تأوهوا

    للمنايا الصوادع

    And when they groaned

    At deaths that shatter,

  14. واستثارت نفوسهم

    ذكريات المصارع

    And their souls were stirred

    By memories of fatal falls,

  15. ودعوا يا الهنا

    ما شهيد بضائع

    And they called, 'O our God,

    No martyr is ever lost.'

  16. شمت قوماً غطارفاً

    هزئوا بالطوالع

    I beheld a noble people,

    Who scoffed at the omens.

  17. تتجافى جنوبهم

    عن ذليل المضاجع

    Their sides draw away

    From lowly beds,

  18. وتسامى نفوسهم

    عن دنيء المطامع

    And their souls rise

    Above base ambitions.

  19. ونساء بواهت

    واكفات المدامع

    And women, stunned,

    Their eyes streaming,

  20. باسمات عوابس

    شبعات جوائع

    Smiling, yet frowning,

    Sated, yet hungry,

  21. يتزين حسرة

    واسى في الاضالع

    Adorn themselves with anguish,

    And sorrow within their ribs,

  22. وجوى اثره جوى

    لاذع في اللواذع

    And burning grief, with burning grief in its wake,

    Searing among searing pains.

  23. هن يحملن في الأسى

    همة لم تدافع

    Amid sorrow they bear

    A resolve never repelled.

  24. في اساهن نفحة

    في الطيور السواجع

    In their sorrow is a breath

    That lives in cooing birds.

  25. ان ذكرى محمد

    قرنت بالفجائع

    Indeed, the memory of Muhammad

    Was joined to calamities.

  26. ان ذكرى محمد

    تليت بالفجائع

    Indeed, the memory of Muhammad

    Was recited with calamities.

  27. ان ذكرى محمد

    تليت بالروائع

    Indeed, the memory of Muhammad

    Was recited with wonders.

  28. امه يا لامه

    في سواد البراقع

    His mother—alas for his mother—

    In the blackness of face veils,

  29. حين نادت محمد

    في النجوم السواطع

    When she called to Muhammad,

    Among the shining stars,

  30. خالد في سمائه

    فاكففي يا مدامع

    Immortal in his sky—

    So cease, O weeping eyes:

  31. انه مات ميتة

    عذبة في المسامع

    Indeed, he died a death

    Sweet to the ears.

  32. واخته يا لاخته

    في شتيت النوازع

    And his sister—alas for his sister—

    Amid scattered impulses,

  33. في جنون مبرح

    ما له من مضارع

    In agonizing madness

    That has no equal.

  34. انها في جنونها

    كالدمى في الصوامع

    Indeed, in her madness she is

    Like statues in hermitages.

  35. ومساكين صبية

    بين دام ودامع

    And poor children,

    Some bleeding, others weeping.

  36. ايه صرعى المطامع

    وضحايا الفظائع

    Ah, you slain by greed,

    And victims of atrocities,

  37. هالني ما اراه من

    بدع أو بدائع

    I am appalled by what I see:

    Oddities, or wonders.

  38. عرب طبعون لا تنوا

    انتم في الودائع

    Arabs, sluggish, do not falter!

    You are among the treasures held in trust.

  39. في امتشاق الظبي

    ما لكم من منازع

    In brandishing sword blades,

    You have no rival.

  40. قد صبرتم وصبركم

    لكم خير شافع

    You have endured, and your endurance

    Is your best intercessor.

  41. فانبذوا لذة الدتى

    للنفوس الطوامع

    So leave base pleasures

    To covetous souls,

  42. ودعو اراحة الكرى

    للعيون الهواجع

    And leave the repose of sleep

    To slumbering eyes.

  43. واطلقوها دويةً

    صرخة في المجامع

    And unleash it, resounding—

    A cry in the assemblies:

  44. نحن قوم نفوسنا

    كالسيوف اللوامع

    'We are a people whose souls

    Are like gleaming swords.

  45. لم يفلها الصدا

    بل قراع القوارع

    They were not blunted by rust,

    But by the battering of calamities.'

  46. واصرخوا يا شهيدنا

    انت خير الطلائع

    And cry out, 'O our martyr,

    You are the best of the vanguard!'

  47. واهتفوا يا إلهنا

    ما شهيدٌ بضائع

    And call out, 'O our God,

    No martyr is ever lost!'