دَعِ الدِّمَنَ القِفارَ لِمَنْ بَكاها

دَعِ الدِّمَنَ القِفارَ لِمَنْ بَكاها

وُقْم فاختَرْ لَنا رَبْعاً سِواها

وُقْم فاختَرْ لَنا رَبْعاً سِواها

Leave the desolate ruins to whoever wept over them.

Leave the barren valleys to those who weep for them,

And rise, then choose for us a dwelling other than these.

And arise, choose for us instead a different quarter,

وخَلِّ الكاسَ فارِغَةً هواءً

وخَلِّ الكاسَ فارِغَةً هواءً

فليسَ يِنا انحطاطٌ في هَواها

فليسَ يِنا انحطاطٌ في هَواها

And leave the cup empty, holding only air,

And pour the goblet out, empty of air,

For we do not stoop to craving it.

For we feel no decline in our love of it,

ألْم ترَ أنَّنا نسعى لنرقى

ألْم ترَ أنَّنا نسعى لنرقى

إلى العَلياء في أقصى ذُراها

إلى العَلياء في أقصى ذُراها

Have you not seen that we strive to rise

Do you not see that we strive to ascend

To eminence, at its highest summits,

To the sublime, to the farthest reach of its domain?

وأنّا لا نُفكّرُ في المنايا

وأنّا لا نُفكّرُ في المنايا

إِذِا السِسا عزّا وجاها

إِذِا السِسا عزّا وجاها

And that we do not think of death

And that we do not think of death

When [word unclear in the source] honor and standing?

When glory and fame greet us.

ونحنُ إذا تَصَدّيْنا لِحربٍ

ونحنُ إذا تَصَدّيْنا لِحربٍ

عَبوسٍ وجهُها دانٍ ضُحاها

عَبوسٍ وجهُها دانٍ ضُحاها

And when we face a war,

And if we are opposed in war

Grim-faced, with its morning near,

By a grim face, humbling those near,

نُبَكِّي المَشْرَفَّي دماً نَجيعاً

نُبَكِّي المَشْرَفَّي دماً نَجيعاً

وضِحْكُ المَشْرَفيَّةِ في بُكاها

وضِحْكُ المَشْرَفيَّةِ في بُكاها

We make the Mashrafi sword weep fresh blood,

We make the prominent weep blood profusely

And the Mashrafi swords' laughter lies in their weeping.

While the laughter of the prominent is in their weeping.

غرسْنا في مساعِينا غُروساً

غرسْنا في مساعِينا غُروساً

يَطيبُ على اللَّيالي مُجْتَناها

يَطيبُ على اللَّيالي مُجْتَناها

We have planted saplings in our endeavors,

We planted in our efforts saplings

Whose harvest is sweet through the nights.

That give off a sweet scent in the nights, nurtured.

وشَيَّدْنا مَبانِيَ لِلمَعالي

وشَيَّدْنا مَبانِيَ لِلمَعالي

يَدومُ على الزَّمانِ قُوى بُناها

يَدومُ على الزَّمانِ قُوى بُناها

And we have raised edifices to noble attainments,

And we built edifices for great things

Whose structural strength endures through time.

That will endure through time, strong its structure.