مَا لِلنِّيَاقِ إِذَا حَدَا جَمَّالُهَا
What Is With the She-Camels When Their Driver Chants to Them?
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مَا لِلنِّيَاقِ إِذَا حَدَا جَمَّالُهَا
تَدَعُ الْعَنَاءَ وَلَا تَمَلُّ مَلَالَهَا
mā lilnniyāqi idhā ḥadā jammāluhā
tadaʿul ʿanā’a walā tamallu malālahā
What is with the she-camels when their driver chants to them?
They cast aside their weariness and do not grow tired of the road
وَتَرَىٰ لَهَا فِي السَّيْرِ جِدًّا وَاضِحًا
شَوْقًا تَمُدُّ يَمِينَهَا وَشِمَالَهَا
watarāā lahā fīs sayri jiddan wāḍiḥan
shawqan tamuddu yamīnahā washimālahā
You see in their stride a clear determination,
out of longing they stretch to the right and to the left
وَتَبَاشَرَتْ لَمَّا أَتَتْ بَدْرًا رَأَتْ
نُورَ النَّبِيِّ الْهَاشِمِيِّ بَدَا لَهَا
watabāsharat lammā atat badran ra’at
nūran nabiyyil hāshimiyyi badā lahā
They rejoiced when they arrived and beheld Badr,
for the light of the Hashimite Prophet appeared before them
غَنِّ لَهَا يَا سَعْدُ بِاسْمِ مُحَمَّدٍ
فَلَعَلَّهَا تُصْغِي لِمَنْ غَنَّىٰ لَهَا
ghanni lahā yā saʿdu bis mi muḥammadin
falaʿallahā tuṣghī liman ghannāā lahā
So sing to them, O Saʿd, with the name of Muhammad,
perhaps they will listen to the one who sings for them