1. بعزك يا ذا الكبرياء والمراحم

    ومعروفك المعروف بين العوالم

    By Your might, O Possessor of majesty and mercies,

    and Your benevolence, known among the worlds,

  2. وأسمائك الحسنى وأوصافك العلى

    فأنت الذي ترجى لكشف العظائم

    and Your most beautiful names and exalted attributes—

    for You are the One hoped in to dispel great calamities—

  3. أبدفئة خانت بعهدك واعتدت

    ورامت لهذا الدين إحدى القواصم

    destroy a faction that betrayed Your covenant and transgressed,

    and sought to deal this religion a shattering blow.

  4. فأبدلهمو يا رب بالعز ذلة

    وقوتهم بالضعف يا ذا المراحم

    So, Lord, replace their might with abasement,

    and their strength with weakness, O Possessor of mercies.

  5. لقد أملوا في الأرض بغياً بظلمهم

    وإفسادهم فيها وهتك المحارم

    They indeed hoped for tyranny on earth through their oppression,

    and their corruption there and violation of sacred bounds,

  6. وإهلاكهم للحرث والنسل جهرة

    وسومهمو للخلق سوء البهائم

    and their open destruction of crops and offspring,

    and their subjecting people to bestial cruelty.

  7. فجاءوا على غيظ وقيظ عداوة

    لنم قام بالإسلام سامي الدعائم

    So they came in fury and the scorching heat of enmity

    against whoever stood for Islam, lofty in its pillars.

  8. يريدون أن يستأصلوا الدين والهدى

    وأن يرفعوا رايات باغ وظالم

    They wish to uproot religion and guidance

    and raise the banners of a transgressor and an oppressor,

  9. فيبقى ذوو الإسلام غرثى أذلة

    وتعلو البوادي باجتباء المظالم

    so that the people of Islam remain hungry and abased,

    and the desert tribes gain ascendancy by exacting unjust levies.

  10. ولكنهم والحمد لله لم تزل

    بهم خيفة من ماضيات الملاحم

    Yet, praise be to God, there has never departed

    from them a fear of the fierce battles of old.

  11. فمالوا إلى الإسلام بعد احتفالهم

    وأعمالهم لليعملات الرواسم

    So they turned toward Islam after their mustering

    and their driving of strong, swift-striding she-camels.

  12. بآبوا بحمد لله لم يدركوا المنى

    ولكنههم آبوا بحوب المأثم

    They returned, praise be to God, without attaining their wishes,

    but they returned with the guilt of sin.

  13. فيا محنة الإسلام من كل فاجر

    وكل جهول بالحدود وغائم

    O Islam's ordeal at the hands of every profligate,

    and everyone ignorant of the limits, and everyone clouded in mind,

  14. ومن مدع للدين والحق ثم لا

    يحامي عن الإسلام عن التزاحم

    and of one claiming religion and truth, yet not

    defending Islam against the press of conflict,

  15. ومنتسب لعلم أضحى بعلمه

    يسوس به الدنيا وجمع الدراهم

    and of one professing learning, who has come, through his knowledge,

    to manage worldly affairs and the amassing of dirhams.

  16. ولكنه أضحى عن الحق ناكباً

    بترك الهدى ميلاً إلى كل ظالم

    Yet he has turned aside from the truth,

    abandoning guidance to lean toward every oppressor.

  17. سيعلم من أضحى يقلد للهوى

    ويقرع غيظاً آسفاً سن نادم

    He who has come to follow desire blindly will learn—

    gnashing his teeth in fury, sorrowful and remorseful—

  18. وبال عقاب الله يوم معادنا

    وفي هذه الدنيا بحوب المآشم

    the dire consequence of God's punishment on the day of our return,

    and in this world too, for the guilt of sins.

  19. أما في كتاب الله ما كان شافياً

    وفي سنة المختار صفوة آدم

    Is there not in God's Book that which brings healing,

    and in the Sunnah of the Chosen One, the choicest of Adam's children?

  20. ففي سورة الشورى بيانٌ لمبتغ

    طريق الهدى فاسئل بها كل عالم

    For in the surah al-Shura is clarification for one seeking

    the path of guidance; ask every scholar about it.

  21. فقد شرع الله اتباع محمد

    وإخوانه والله أعدل حاكم

    For God has indeed ordained following Muhammad

    and his brothers; God is the most just judge.

  22. وفي سورة الأنعام أوضح حجة

    وأقطعها حقاً لكل مخاصم

    And in the surah al-An'am is the clearest proof,

    and truly the most decisive against every disputant.

  23. وفي آل عمران البيان وإنه

    لأوضح تبيان على أنف راغم

    And in Al Imran is the exposition; indeed, it

    is the clearest elucidation, despite the one whose nose is rubbed in dust.

  24. وأما الأحاديث الصحاح فإنها

    لأكثر من إحصائها في المناظم

    And as for the authentic hadiths, they are

    too numerous to enumerate in verse.

  25. ويا حزن الإسلام والدين والهدى

    على أهله السامين أعلى المكارم

    And O sorrow of Islam, religion, and guidance

    over its people, who attained the loftiest virtues,

  26. وحزب الإله الخائطي حومة الوغى

    ويحمونها بالمرهفات الصوارم

    and God's host, threading through the thick of battle,

    and defending it with finely honed, cleaving swords;

  27. ومنتسب للعلم غير مذبذب

    ولا آخذ في لومة الله لائم

    and one professing learning, never wavering,

    nor heeding a reproacher's blame in God's cause.

  28. فيا رب يا منان يا فالق النوى

    ويا فالق الأصباح يا خير حاكم

    So, O Lord, O Bountiful Giver, O Cleaver of date-stones,

    and O Cleaver of daybreak, O best of judges,

  29. ويا رافع السبع الطباق وعالياً

    على عرشه بالذات فوق العوالم

    and O Raiser of the seven layered heavens, and One exalted

    above His Throne in His very essence, above the worlds,

  30. ويا سامع النجوى وأخفى ومبصراً

    بكل جميع المبصرات وعهالم

    and O Hearer of secret counsel and what is more hidden, and Seer

    of all visible things, and All-Knowing,

  31. أقم على الإسلام بعد اندراسه

    وثبت حماة الدين يا ذا المراحم

    restore Islam after its traces have faded,

    and make religion's defenders steadfast, O Possessor of mercies.

  32. وبدد بنصر الدين شمل ذوي الردى

    وأصنارهم من كل باغ وظالم

    And through religion's triumph, scatter the company of those of perdition,

    and their supporters, every transgressor and oppressor.

  33. فيا راكباً عوجاء صادقة السرى

    موثقة الأنساغ درم المناسم

    So, O rider of a lean, bent-legged she-camel, reliable on night journeys,

    firm-jointed, with rounded footpads,

  34. عرندسة تغري الهجير بوخدها

    وأرقالها في طامسات المعالم

    massive, challenging the midday heat with her swift stride

    and her loping through wastes with effaced landmarks—

  35. تحمل هداك الله مني تحية

    إلى الصحب من أخٍ وخلٍ ملازم

    carry—may God guide you—a greeting from me

    to the companions, from a brother and inseparable friend,

  36. تحية مكلوم الفؤاد من النوى

    فعيناه تهمي بالدموع السواجم

    the greeting of one heart-wounded by separation,

    so his two eyes pour forth streaming tears,

  37. بعد وميض البرق والودق أودعا

    هديلاً على الأغصان ورق الحمائم

    after the lightning's flash and rain have instilled

    cooing in the gray doves upon the branches.

  38. وصل إلهي كلما انهل وابل

    على السيد المعصوم صفوة آدم

    And send blessings, my God, whenever a downpour streams,

    upon the infallible master, the choicest of Adam's children,

  39. وأصحابه والآل ما عاذ والتجا

    بعزك يا ذا الكبرياء والمراحم

    and his companions and family, whenever anyone seeks refuge and shelter

    in Your might, O Possessor of majesty and mercies.