Sol 6.1

  1. أَعيدوا الحَديثَ وَقولوا أَجَلْ

    أَجابَ الرَجاءُ وَلَبّى الأَمَلْ

    Repeat the message and say: Yes!

    Hope has answered, and aspiration has responded.

  2. أَجَل هَكَذا فَليُنادي المُلوكُ

    بِحَقِّ الشُعوبِ وَأَمرِ الدُوَلْ

    Yes, thus let kings speak out

    on peoples' rights and the affairs of states.

  3. أَجَل هَكَذا فَليَجِلّ المَقامُ

    وَيَسمُ المَرامُ وَيَعلُ المَثَلْ

    Yes, thus let rank be exalted,

    the aim grow lofty, and the ideal rise high.

  4. أَرى الشَرقَ يَهتَزُّ مِمّا رَأى

    كَما اِهتَزَّ ذو النَشواتِ الثَمِلْ

    I see the East quiver at what it has seen,

    as one drunk with rapture sways.

  5. تَخايَلَ فيهِ بَريدُ المُلوكِ

    يُقِلُّ المَمالِكَ فيما حَمَلْ

    The kings' courier appeared there in splendor,

    carrying kingdoms within its load;

  6. يُقِلُّ الكِنانَةَ في عِزِّها

    وَأُبَّهَةِ الفاتِحينَ الأُوَلْ

    carrying Kinana in her glory

    and the splendor of the earliest conquerors.

  7. تَسيرُ مَواكِبُها فَخمَةً

    تَهِلُّ البِقاعُ لَها وَالسُبُلْ

    Her processions advance in grandeur,

    the lands and roads cheer for them.

  8. مَواكِبُ مُطلَقَةٌ حُرَّةٌ

    تَعافُ الحِجالَ وَتَأبى الكَلَلْ

    Processions unfettered and free,

    shunning bridal chambers and rejecting weariness.

  9. مُلوكَ الكِنانَةِ سيروا بِها

    فَقَد نَشَطَت بَعدَ طولِ المَلَلْ

    Kings of Kinana, go forward with her,

    for she has roused herself after long weariness.

  10. وَما نَكَبَت عَن مَعالي الأُمورِ

    عَلى الرَيثِ مِن أَمرِها وَالعَجَلْ

    Nor has she swerved from lofty pursuits,

    whether deliberate or hasty in her affairs.

  11. أَضيئوا الشِعابَ وَروضوا الرِكابَ

    إِذا نَدَّ جامِحُها أَو جَفَلْ

    Light the mountain passes and train the riding camels,

    if an unruly one among them bolts or shies.

  12. فَنِعمَ السَبيلُ السَوِيُّ الأَمينُ

    وَنِعمَ المَطِيُّ السِماحُ الذُلُلْ

    How fine, then, the straight and safe road,

    and how fine the willing, docile mounts!

  13. وَخَيرُ العَتادِ لَها هِمَّةٌ

    يَذوبُ لَها الخَطبُ أَو يَضمَحِلْ

    And her best equipment is resolve,

    before which calamity melts or vanishes;

  14. وَرَأيٌ يُسَدِّدُ مِنها الخُطى

    وَيُمسِكُ أَقدامَها أَن تَزَلْ

    and counsel that guides her steps aright

    and keeps her feet from slipping.

  15. سَكَتُّم وَضَجَّت تُنادي الشُعوبُ

    فَكانَ السُكوتُ لِأَمرٍ جَلَلْ

    You kept silent while the peoples clamored, calling out;

    that silence, then, was for a momentous matter.

  16. فَمَن يُنكِرُ اليَومَ أَو مَن يَقولُ

    بِلادٌ هَواءٌ وَشَعبٌ هَمَلْ

    Who, then, denies it today, or who will say:

    “A land of empty air, a people left untended”?

  17. نُعيدُ الحَديثَ إِذا ما اِمتَرى

    وَنُسهِبُ فيهِ إِذا ما جَهِلْ

    We repeat the message whenever anyone doubts,

    and expound it whenever he does not know.

  18. جَعَلناهُ دَعوَتَنا في الصَلاةِ

    إِذا خَرَّ ساجِدُنا يَبتَهِلْ

    We have made it our supplication in prayer,

    when our worshipper falls prostrate, imploring.

  19. أَقولُ لِمِصرَ وَمِصرُ الحَياةُ

    حَياةُ الغَدِ الدائِمِ المُتَّصِلْ

    I say to Egypt—and Egypt is life,

    the life of an everlasting, unbroken tomorrow—

  20. لَقَد جَدَّ شَعبُكِ في شَأنِهِ

    فَما يَتَوانى وَما يَتَّكِلْ

    Your people have indeed striven earnestly for their cause,

    so they neither slacken nor rely on others.

  21. قَضى اللَهُ رَبُّكِ أَن تَخلَعي

    قُيودَ الهَوانِ وَأَن يَستَقِلْ

    God, your Lord, has decreed that you cast off

    the shackles of humiliation, and that your people gain independence.