1. With your dawn this disgrace has dispersed
And the shackle has fallen off your pursuer and broken

2. I shook evil wherever a corner remained
Where it sneaks in and not left a refuge

3. O nation, no idol has withdrawn from her chest
Except it bequeathed an incessant seeker to it

4. For every harvester, a hand feeds him
Boiling water, and for the suckling of the breast that nursed

5. For today each will be recompensed for what they have done
God is Greatest, how you gave respite to a tyrant

6. Except so he reaps the fire he planted
A generation with angry eyes and a caravan

7. Of two generations' wrath gathered at your appointment
And from it swooped down upon the oppressor and his band

8. A shadow that jumped over the fence and fortress
Like a torrent of magma and fire of injustice

9. And death, if only it contained that horror
What is the fear of Cain when he dashes so his brother pursues him

10. With his buried eyes wherever he turned
The earth split open for him from their stares a ghost

11. Poured upon him the spilled blood so it spread
A day more terrible than the horror that suddenly

12. Struck its disaster upon the little tyrant so it swelled
A day every heart that contained it gathered

13. And the palace shook until it leaned and cracked
And from where he turned, wearing a prisoner's shackle

14. The steel and glitter around him turned black
In a standstill the beggar breathed his humiliation

15. While the prince who fed on their hunger satiated
And a band of thieves, whatever they gathered

16. Did not prevent the people's decree or drive it back
You have lowered its highness with the white revolution

17. And hastily cut off its head and severed
Vengeance was not quenched from the nation's tormentor

18. Until the fire burned him and he collapsed
So it took from the corpse of the tormentor, estimating

19. From it the number of victims from the blood it shed
This one to whom every bereaved woman is his problem

20. And who made the victims permissible, if only he trembled
And the thief of light from my children's eyes he extinguished

21. And made sleep in the cradle of my son anguish
Yesterday we were captives under his rule

22. Today we give him what he gave and what he deprived
The rising masses did not shred him

23. Except with what he shredded and did not cut
The army did not lie except the fancy of a rabble

24. Who thought it would follow whatever they desired
The army was nothing but the fence of its nation

25. Lifting injustice from it whenever it fell
Whether it rises or touches one of us

26. It touches it more painfully if we call it answers
The army was nothing but its leader's secret

27. This one who freed the necks when it emerged
Abdul Karim who made his revolution run

28. Water and light like a raining cloud it shone
Yesterday Baghdad was sleeping under the night

29. In its prison while Suhail had just emerged
So it barely breathed or morning began to shine

30. Except it had smashed the idols and uprooted
In a revolution where the people returned victorious

31. And truth thriving and tyranny collapsed
Until every inch of Iraq beamed and in

32. Its port today the dawn's light has emerged