1. To whom does grandeur excel all grandeur?
Is it Arabism in its lofty care?

2. Is it the zeal excited by one springing up
Who trod the den and was set on taking prey?

3. Those are the delegations from the East who came
To fulfill their nation's reproach and kin's.

4. Each one's forehead adorned with explicit might
Is the might of the swords and the aid of heroes.

5. Its various outstanding traits, its people inherited
The lineages of a time in remote antiquity.

6. It seeks a life precious for its lands
And checks the sentence of the lurking tyrant.

7. They conspired for the good of a house founded
In both Easts for benevolent deeds.

8. For the protectresses, the defenders of zeal
The ones shouldering misfortunes' burdens.

9. The perceivers of truth which cries out in alarm
And stirs between the claws of beasts.

10. Or did the sleep of the protectors suffice, and what
Did those beds gain from harm and sorrows?

11. A free soul's dignity is the honor of life
That refuses a life of injustice and humiliation.

12. If a people weakens and does not defend
Its basin, it spends the night in the worst situation.

13. It is, O Palestine, the struggle, and did any
Homeland, without struggle, escape its fate?

14. Do not deny the traits of souls, and receive good news
Of the most beloved transformation and best outcome.

15. Trust in your Lord, indeed He is your helper
None can help like Him, nor any ally.

16. Say to Roosevelt, who hopes for his justice:
"Roosevelt, I have nothing to do with the unjust."

17. How high is sheltering the exile, and from my blood
Someone is fed and sated after my family was killed.

18. The worst judges are most wicked by nature
A judge who sees justice as unlawful.

19. O you sellers of Arabism's honor, shame on you!
Do not be ignorant - Arabism's honor is precious.

20. If you want permissible sale, then only
With spilled blood, not with money.

21. A world of caprices, if it does not wake up
It is swept away by a world of calamities.

22. They erected a structure based on fancy and did not know
That disasters violently shake.

23. Delusion inflated them, so the tyrant imagined
That Arabism heralded its demise.

24. Have they not seen it, in its positions of glory
Wrathful as lions, defiant as cubs?

25. Ages' treasure, so if you doubt
The people, it is the generations' trust.

26. Indeed, I gained, through the excellent ones, guidance
The most precious lessons and most eloquent parables.

27. The one who falsely claimed the impossible for his people
And went on speaking the words of ignoramuses, lied.

28. For the countries, there are fortresses of doctrine
And of white blades, blades of white swords.

29. How many people, if you look, you see them
Among men when they are not men!

30. Of everyone cowed in zeal, inert,
Weak in strength, with flaccid limbs.

31. Indifferent, he spends the night while calamities pound his people
And he spends the night in leisure with a carefree mind.

32. Resolve that brings relief during adversities, and ambition
That covers the horizon and roams every place.

33. If the Arab nations continue their gratitude
For its successive, ongoing favor.