1. Ghmadan recited the sublime hymns in wonder
For you are more eloquent than a singer or orator

2. O towering sublime one, as if you have
A mother from the galaxy and the skies as a father

3. Events marched through your courtyard hammering
As if your mirror inspired awe in them

4. Yesterday, the Arab delegations came carrying
Praise that satisfies you and kinship

5. In it, the crown of Ibn Dhi Yazan illuminated
A crown that changes the stars and comets of the horizon

6. So the grandfather of the Messenger of Allah delivered his sermon
And every nobility traced its roots

7. And the sorcerer Ibn Al-Salt recited a masterpiece
At which the brides of art were enraptured

8. None celebrates here in the lands of eternity
Unless they have shed blood for it till satiation

9. And none chants the victory anthem proudly
Except one who has drawn Indian bamboo and reed

10. Today, O people, we enumerate among those who
Made life for us and forged glory for us

11. And we remember the injustice in what their hands did
Even if the memory brings discomfort

12. The tyrants who thought the world was created for them have gone
And became a lesson for later generations from those who perished

13. Banishment and death killed some of what they earned
And man only reaps what he sows

14. O people, you have achieved a victory unattainable without
Toil that furrows the face and distress that elicits a monument

15. And an unyielding resolve whose zeal
Was like a knight ransoming Aleppo

16. You have cleansed your land of vileness and filth
And crossed a raging sea of horrors

17. You have resolved that truth will not live oppressed
And wrongdoing will not be seen in the Arab homelands

18. By God and history, the blood of the innocent
Poured upon the soil of truth and freedom

19. The blood of Egypt and Yemen intermingled
An intermingling that defined history and lineage

20. Adversities converged against you and enemies' hands stirred
Woe and war

21. Treacherous betrayal emerged everywhere
A vile heart turned against its goals

22. And the rule of an individual who ignorantly
Bought power, and ignorance still buys money and ambition

23. And the plot of a colonizer who emptied his quiver
Making his grandfather mere play

24. I see Europe persisting in its blindness
Despite the sciences it built towers for

25. It legislated the rights of humankind believing
In opinion as a limit and elected rule

26. Yet when it forgot in them the desire for
The dignity of living, it furrowed its face in anger

27. The West is still the enemy of the East, delighted
That it does not rise up and remains indebted

28. Ask about Belgium's atrocities and cruelty
Against the natives of Congo that it plundered

29. They renewed the law of the jungle and committed
Unfathomable oppressions

30. They cut off hands or severed heads to
Increase diamonds or hoard gold

31. And ask about the Crusades whose wounds
In the East's core still ache after healing

32. They attacked the fortress of Islam and massed
On land and sea, in darkness or clouds

33. But they were pounded by the East's storm
That shook them, spewing flames

34. Hattin poured hellfire on them
Making their legions into kindling

35. How many kings did Saladin drag in defeat
And how many tasted death's bitterness beyond propriety

36. O people, your victory's gains are manifest
So do not place them in the winds of storms

37. Leave laziness, for only activity will erase
Civilizations, however vast

38. And do not listen to preachers of division, for those
Who destroy virtues give life to race and lineage

39. And take care to use time, the precious scale, for if
You weighed it in your palm, it would tremble