1. Your sky is melodies and lights
"David" sang to you, or did "Sinai" greet you?

2. Or did the prophets anchor their ships
Promised one, from the blonde nights of the Nile

3. Or did ancient magic reveal to you visions
With which the land, the wind, and the water sing

4. Or did news come to "Thebes" from its lords
Or did its soothsayers come with revelation

5. Or did "Amr" go with the light of victory, so green crystals
In the river welcomed him

6. The doves fluttered with good tidings and valleys
They are ripe, dewy fruits and blond

7. O Egypt, that is the day of the meeting, and at
Its dawn the glorious messengers arrived

8. A spirit and affection crept to you through them
And how many crept to you with the secret of the soul

9. A voice from their Arabism called, so they answered
As the call of the mother is answered by her sons

10. Or a day commanded them with its making
From its command people are dead and alive

11. If their hands do not protect their heritage
It will be lost, and days are fickle

12. It knocked down the foreheads of the weak, and subjected them
As the mighty and staunch desire

13. They are the free of an era, awakened for it
And those who slept are the uneasy dead

14. Children of Arabism, the abode of time turned
And discord came over you, diverse and unkind

15. Yesterday passed with its distress, and before your eyes
The heavens opened for glory

16. Today build as your fatherhood built
In the East, its pillars like the towering mountain peaks

17. Its constitution is ideal unity, its law
Speaking truth, kind Sama

18. For you in your present from your past strife
In it is revival and resurrection for your past

19. Hold fast to the firm cable with your arms
Let no dissenters break you asunder

20. Baghdad did not distance from Egypt, nor
Did Lebanon, the Aqsa Mosque, and Shuba

21. Which of the borders distanced between the four
When they have closeness of spirit and approach

22. A land where our history flowed, and
Blood flowed with which fathers wrote history

23. Blessed is its planting, from it in Andalusia
And Qadisiya, and Yarmouk, branches

24. Khalid's eternal charm did not take its freshness
In heat, cold, dawn, and dusk

25. O people of the East! The eyes are watching
What you prepare, and the ears listening

26. The East observes what its tomorrow holds
O East, tomorrow is destruction and building

27. With the call of peace be not misled
For ambitions there is temptation and misleading

28. The pages of days opened and their
Pens sprang forth, books and news bowed

29. And oppressed nations sighed, and the
Supporters of truth loudly wailed

30. War touched them like those thrust into it
Yet they did not complain or grumble or censure

31. In the world of tomorrow, what is prepared for them
And what do you think nations in war victors are?

32. They drafted covenants for man and legislated
Building a world kindness constructs

33. I fear for them they will lose it
A hand absolved of peace, pure white

34. In an hour of the intoxication of victory, its revelry
For what transpired of yesterday's covenants, forgetful

35. So set your sail, do not deliver its helm
To other than your palm, the wind wayward

36. O East, your glory, if you do not build its rock
With your hands, it will be scattered by winds

37. O East, your right, if your people's breasts do not protect its keeping
Opinions will not save it

38. And the universe is a great epic, its aspects
Blood, fire, storm, and darkness

39. Was it in your power that death makes
With his hands disobedient Adam and Eve?

40. Of a winged being its swimming feared
An ogre, eagle, dragon, and giraffe

41. Its steps swept the carpet of wind and took off
And the earth from its horror black and red

42. It ascends and dives like lightning flash
Almost causing the star to faint

43. And crawlers of steel it has emptied
Of their weight the earth's chest bends

44. If it ascended, mountains are plummeting abysses
Or if it roared, mute rocks are wrecked

45. Neither water nor land is free of its evil
Nor forest or desert safe from its betrayal

46. O East, your day do not miss its flanks
For after today sins are not forgiven

47. In Umar's era the meeting was blessed, and upon
Its gardens the loved ones met

48. It protected Arab lineages, and extended
For it fertile land, growth and cultivation

49. And the sky of his glories blessed it
So for each of his works are banners

50. The East's geniuses are its fathers, and they
Are its lion kings, venerable nobility

51. O union of the "Greater Arab Unity" and its coalition
I wish I could eulogize, singing

52. Beloved lands and spaces
And I do not name the varied virtues of the youths

53. For virtues for the youths are names
Mustafa and his disciples, if mentioned

54. The East awakens, and the West echoes
And you are each for the protection of his homeland a hero

55. A ransom with Qurashi soul redeemer
By God, if you come to the valley and your pillar is

56. Its flowers, it is aromas and songs
And yesterday circled with memories and a

57. Eye competed with tears, and hearts with passions
So fulfill the rights of brotherhood that a

58. Sister seeking refuge in the struggle of time alone takes shelter
Her food is the crumbs of living, anguished

59. And her drink from it is pain and agony
The buyer's gold made lawful for her, and an

60. Era in which the wretched were freed deprived her
Two wars have wounded her, in blood and tears

61. A gut pained, and entrails and bowels
This is Palestine, or this is her story

62. What do you say if the disease is not cured?
She looked to you, did she not have

63. Healing at your hands from the sublime?
You took the covenant for her from your fatherhood

64. Sons are suited to carry the covenant