شربت ايطاليا كاس العطب

في طرابلس بأسياف العرب

Italy drank the cup of ruin

In Tripoli, by the swords of the Arabs.

حدثتها كذباً آمالها

انها تبلغ بالحرب الأرب

Her hopes spoke falsely to her,

Saying she would attain her goal through war.

فصدقناها بضرب علمت

منه ان الصدق للبيض القضب

So we told her the truth with blows; she learned

From them that truth belongs to bright, keen blades.

طربت للفتح لكن الوغى

بدلت بالحزن ذياك الطرب

She rejoiced at conquest, but battle

Replaced that joy with sorrow.

هيجت كل كمي باسل

دارع بالصبر نباذ اليلب

It roused every valiant armored warrior,

Clad in patience, casting leather armor aside.

يكره المرهف في هام العدا

أو يرى من حده ما قد أحب

He drives the keen sword into the heads of foes

Until he sees its edge bring him what he desired.

اصبحت اسيافنا كافلة

انها تبدي من الضرب العجب

Our swords have become guarantors

That they will reveal wonders with their blows.

مشرفيات عليها رقمت

آية النصر وعنوان الغلب

Mashrafi swords upon which were inscribed

The sign of victory and the emblem of triumph.

كلما ثار سحاباً جيشهم

عصفت فيه المنايا فانسحب

Whenever their army rose like a cloud,

Death swept through it, and it withdrew.

وإذا ما برقت أسيافهم

في سماء النقع بالموت انسكب

And whenever their swords flashed

In the sky of battle-dust, their host poured down in death.

فكأني بأساطيلهم

أصبحت وهي اساطيل الهرب

So I seem to see their fleets

Turned now into fleets of flight.

رب معصوب يتاج منهم

عاد معصوباً بسيف ذي شطب

Many a man among them, his head bound with a crown,

Returned with his head bound by a grooved sword.

جزعت روما على مصرعه

انها احدى حظيات النكب

Rome was distraught at his death;

She is one of calamity's favorites.

لست أشكو الحرب بل اشكرها

اننا فزنا بهذا المحترب

I do not complain of war; rather, I thank it,

For we have triumphed in this conflict.

هذبت من كل شوب صفونا

مثلما هذبت النار الذهب

It purged every taint from our pure substance,

Just as fire refines gold.

فنهضنا باتحاد صادق

مثلما تنهض أخوان النسب

So we rose in true unity,

As brothers of one lineage rise.

دول الإسلام قد أضحت يداً

مثلما عادت إمارات العرب

The states of Islam have become one hand,

As have the emirates of the Arabs.

وقف الشهم السنوسي بها

حامياً وقفة مجد وحسب

The gallant al-Sanusi stood there,

A defender, taking a stand of glory and ancestral honor.

ما دجى ليل الوغى حتى جلا

ليله ابلج وضاح النسب

Battle's night had scarcely darkened before

A radiant man of illustrious lineage dispelled its darkness.

هتف الإسلام بالكرب به

فأتى يرقل فراج الكرب

Islam cried out to him in distress;

So he came hurrying, a dispeller of distress.

انهضت افريقيا دعوته

نهضة من هولها الغرب اضطرب

His call roused Africa

To an uprising whose terror made the West tremble.

كل خواض وغى يمشي لها

مشية الظامي إلى الماء العذب

Every warrior who plunges into battle strides toward it

With the stride of the thirsty toward sweet water.

لذ طعم الموت في أفواههم

فكأن الموت ضرب من ضرب

Death's taste grew sweet in their mouths,

As though death were a kind of honey.

عرب لكنهم ما عرفوا

وهو من الفاظهم معنى الرهب

Arabs, yet they have never known

The meaning of fear, though it is a word of theirs.

خطر ما مثله من خطر

طرق الإسلام من كل حدب

A danger unmatched by any other danger

Has assailed Islam from every height.

ابلغ الإسلام عني نفثة

جمرها بين الحيازيم التهب

Convey to Islam a breath from me;

Its ember has blazed between my ribs.

انها حرب الصليب انبعثت

فابعثوها وهي ترمي اللهب

This is the war of the Cross, now arisen;

So unleash it, as it hurls forth flame.

ما وراء الدين ترجى غاية

وإذا لم ننصر الدين ذهب

No goal beyond the faith is hoped for;

And if we do not defend the faith, it will be lost.

فاز من حامي على أوطانه

وعل الدين فأدى ما وجب

Triumphant is whoever defends his homelands

And the faith, thereby fulfilling his duty.

أيها الشرق انتبه من نومة

ضجت الاعصر منها والحقب

O East, awaken from a sleep

That has made ages and epochs cry out.

أو لم يغضبك ما أنت به

شيمة الليث إذا ضيم غضب

Has your plight not angered you?

The lion's nature is to rage when wronged.

قد سلبت العز والعز إذا

لم تذد عنه المواضي يستلب

You have been robbed of glory; and glory, if

Keen blades do not defend it, is stolen away.

ما أراك اليوم الا جسداً

ضرجوه بدماء فاختضب

Today I see you as nothing but a body

They have smeared with blood until it is stained.

ما أراك اليوم الا مغنماً

عاد مقسوماً ونهباً ينتهب

Today I see you as nothing but spoils

Now divided up, booty being plundered.

ثروة تجنى ومجد يقتنى

وعلا تحوى وأرض تغتصب

Wealth to be reaped, glory to be acquired,

Eminence to be possessed, land to be usurped.

فاضرب التقسيم بالسيف تكن

حاسماً فيه أماني من حسب

So strike partition with the sword, and you will be

Cutting short, with it, the hopes of those who reckoned.

فإلى كم تكثر العتبى ولا

يعتب الغرب ضعيفاً ان عتب

So how long will you keep pleading for redress, when

The West will not appease the weak, even if they protest?

كنت غابا بالمواضي أشباً

فاستباحوا ذلك الغاب الاشب

You were a forest thick with keen blades;

Then they ravaged that tangled forest.

كنت للعلم سماء زينت

بشموس تتجلى وشهب

You were a sky for learning, adorned

With suns shining forth and shooting stars.

فمتى تسترجع العلم الذي

سامه أهلك جهلا فاغترب

So when will you reclaim the learning that

Your people subjected to ignorance, so it went into exile?