1. تلك العروبةُ جُرحُها يجرِي دَما

    مَن يَمْنَعُ الإسلامَ أن يَتألّما

    There is the Arab nation, its wound streaming blood.

    Who can keep Islam from suffering?

  2. هذا تُراثُ مُحمَّدٍ في قومِه

    أَمْسَى بأيدِي النّاهِبينَ مُقَسَّما

    This is Muhammad's legacy among his people,

    now divided in the plunderers' hands.

  3. أثَرُ السُّيوفِ عليه والدَّمُ حوله

    حرّانَ يصرخُ أين أَبطالُ الحِمَى

    Sword-marks upon it, blood around it,

    burning with anguish, it cries: Where are the homeland's champions?

  4. أين الأُلىَ وَرِثُوا المَمالِكَ حُرَّةً

    تقضِي القضاءَ على القياصرِ مُبْرَما

    Where are those who inherited free kingdoms,

    passing irrevocable judgment upon the Caesars,

  5. تَرْمِي فتهدمُ كُلَّ أَرْعَنَ شاهِقٍ

    ويخافُها رَيْبُ الزّمانِ إذا رَمَى

    striking and toppling every towering peak,

    feared by time's misfortunes when they strike?

  6. تتلفّتُ الدُّنيا إذا رَفَعتْ يداً

    وتَطيرُ من فَزَعٍ إذا فَتَحتْ فما

    The world looks anxiously around when they raise a hand,

    and flies in terror when they open a mouth.

  7. دار الزّمانُ فعاث في أرجائها

    مَنْ كان يَنْزِلُها فيمشِي مُحرِما

    Time turned, and through their lands ran riot

    those who once lodged there and walked as consecrated pilgrims.

  8. إيهٍ فلسطينُ اصْبِري أو فاجْزَعي

    وكَفَى بصبركِ في الحوادثِ مغنما

    Ah, Palestine, be patient—or give way to grief;

    and your patience amid calamities is gain enough.

  9. ظَلَمَ اليهودُ بَنيكِ حين تحكّموا

    وأرى الأُلىَ باعوكِ كانوا أظلما

    The Jews wronged your sons when they took control,

    and I see that those who sold you were more unjust.

  10. يا وَيْحَهُمْ أفما رَأَوْا من حولِهم

    شعباً أعزَّ من اليهودِ وأكرَما

    Alas for them! Did they not see around them

    a people mightier and nobler than the Jews?

  11. شَوْكُ الشُّعوبِ رَمَتْ به أقدامُها

    وَرَمَوا به منّا العُيونَ النُّوَّما

    The thorns of the nations, cast aside by their feet—

    they hurled them into our slumbering eyes.

  12. طَرَدَ الكَرَى عنها وشَكَّ سَوادَها

    فَتَفجَّرتْ بالدَّمعِ وانْبَجَسَتْ دمَا

    They drove sleep from them and pierced their pupils,

    so they burst into tears and gushed with blood.

  13. نَظَرتْ فلم تَرَ في منازلِ قومِنا

    بالقُدسِ إلا مصرعاً أو مأتما

    They looked, but in our people's homes they saw,

    in Jerusalem, only a scene of death or a mourning gathering.

  14. أثَرُ البُراقِ جرت عليه صواعقٌ

    للبَغْيِ من حُلفائنا فتضرّما

    Over Buraq's trace swept thunderbolts

    of aggression from our allies, and it burst into flame.

  15. عَقَدُوا لنا العهدَ البغيضَ وإنَّهم

    لأَضرُّ مَنْ عَقَد العُهودَ فأحكما

    They made the hateful covenant for us, and they

    are surely the most harmful of all who make covenants and bind them fast.

  16. ما العهدُ يُكتبُ للسّلامِ على رِضىً

    كالعهد يُكتبُ بالسِّلاحِ مُسمَّما

    No treaty written for peace by mutual consent

    is like a poisoned treaty written by force of arms.

  17. بلفورُ بئسَ الوعدُ وعدُك للأُلىَ

    جَعلوكَ للأَمَلِ المُخيَّبِ سُلَّما

    Balfour, how vile your promise to those

    who made you a ladder to a hope doomed to disappointment!

  18. خَدَعوكَ حين أطعتَهم وخدعتهم

    إذ طاوعوكَ وتلكَ منزلةُ العَمى

    They deceived you when you obeyed them, and you deceived them

    when they obeyed you; that is the state of blindness.

  19. لسنا وُلاةَ الحقِّ إن لم يَنْدَمُوا

    ولأنتَ أَوْلَىَ أن تَتُوبَ وتَنْدَمَا

    We are no guardians of justice if they do not regret it,

    and you have still more cause to repent and regret.

  20. تلك الإساءةُ ما استقلَّ بمثلِها

    في الدّهر قبلكَ مَن أساءَ وأجرما

    That outrage—none ever committed its like,

    of all who wronged and sinned before you through the ages.

  21. إنّ الذين جَهِلْتَ حُسنَ بَلائِهم

    ضربوا لك الأمثالَ كيما تعلما

    Indeed, those whose splendid valor you failed to recognize

    have set examples for you, so that you may learn.

  22. إن جلَّ ما أبصرتَ من أحداثهم

    فَستُبصرُ الحدثَ الأجلَّ الأعظما

    If the deeds you have witnessed from them were great,

    you will witness a greater, mightier deed.

  23. الموتُ عندَ القومِ أعذبُ مَشْرباً

    مِمَّا يُرادُ بهم وأطيبُ مطعما

    Death, to these people, is a sweeter drink

    and tastier fare than what is planned for them.

  24. إخوانُنا الأحرارُ ما ألِفُوا الأذى

    مَرْعىً ولا عَرَفُوا المذلّةَ مَجْثَما

    Our free brothers have never grown used to suffering

    as a pasture, nor known humiliation as a resting place.

  25. نَفرَ الحِفاظُ بهم فلستَ بواجدٍ

    منهمِ بِمُصْطَرعِ الفوارسِ مُحجِما

    Zeal for honor roused them; you will not find

    one of them hanging back where horsemen clash.

  26. ورثوا الكُماةَ المُعلِمينَ فما تَرى

    بديارهم إلا الكمَّي المُعْلَما

    They are heirs to the battle-marked warriors; you see

    in their lands only the battle-marked, armored warrior.

  27. تلك الدّيارُ المُشرِقاتُ لوَ اَنّها

    نَزَلَتْ منازلَها لكانت أَنْجُما

    Those radiant lands—if they

    occupied their stations, they would be stars.

  28. ما انفكَّ مَجْرَى الوحي في جَنبَاتِها

    يُلقِي على الدُّنيا الشّعاعَ الأقدما

    The stream of revelation within their bounds has never ceased

    to cast upon the world its most ancient radiance.

  29. لولا جَهالَتُها وباطلُ أهلِها

    لأَضاءَ من أقطارِها ما أظلما

    Were it not for the world's ignorance and its people's falsehood,

    it would illumine whatever lay dark in its regions.

  30. بِكِ يا فلسطينُ البلادُ تعلّمت

    أَدَبَ الجهادِ وكان معنىً مُبْهَما

    Through you, Palestine, the lands have learned

    the discipline of jihad, once an obscure idea.

  31. ماذا يُضِيرُكِ إن تَوهَّمَ جاهلٌ

    وأَبَى عليه خَبَالُه أن يفهما

    What harm can it do you if an ignorant man is deluded,

    and his folly will not let him understand?

  32. هذا كِتابُكِ ليس يبلغُ شأوَهُ

    مَن نَمَّقَ الكُتْبَ الحِسانَ ونمنما

    This is your book; its heights cannot be reached

    by one who embellishes fine books and ornaments them.

  33. نعم الكتابُ لمن يُحِبُّ بِلادَهُ

    ولمن يَضِنُّ بِحَقِّها أن يُهضَما

    An excellent book for whoever loves his country,

    and for whoever jealously guards its rights against violation.

  34. حُرُّ الصّحائفِ من بدائعِ حُرَّةٍ

    حَمَلَتْ جَلال العبقرِيَّةِ مِيسَما

    Noble in its pages, a marvel of a free woman

    who bore the majesty of genius as her hallmark.

  35. بَدَأَتْهُ بالدّمِ والحديدِ وإنّه

    بسواهما لن يُسْتَتَمَّ ويُخْتَما

    She began it with blood and iron, and it

    will never be completed or sealed with anything else.

  36. إيهٍ شُعوبَ المُسلِمينَ تنبَّهوا

    وتَدَاركوا أَسْبابَكم أن تُجْذَما

    Ah, peoples of Islam, awaken,

    and save your bonds before they are severed.

  37. اللهَ في إخوانِكم وبلادِكم

    أَفَما تَرَوْنَ الخطبَ كيف تَهجَّما

    Fear God concerning your brothers and your lands!

    Do you not see how calamity has assailed them?

  38. حَفِظُوا التُّراثَ لكم وصانوا عِرْضَكم

    أَفَتكرهون لِعِرْضِكم أن يَسْلَما

    They preserved your heritage and protected your honor;

    do you then begrudge your honor its safety?

  39. لا تَخْذُلُوهم والملائكُ شُهَّدٌ

    بالمَسْجِدَيْنِ كَفَى بذلكَ مأثما

    Do not abandon them while the angels bear witness

    at the two mosques; that would be sin enough.

  40. إنّي وَفَيْتُ لهم ولستُ بِمُسلِمٍ

    إن خُنْتُ في دُنيايَ شعباً مُسْلِما

    I have been faithful to them, and I am no Muslim

    if in this life I betray a Muslim people.

  41. أَتَبِيتُ أولى القِبْلَتَيْنِ حَزينةً

    وأَبِيتُ وَسْنانَ الجُفونِ مُنعّما

    Can the first of the two qiblas spend the night in sorrow,

    while I lie in comfort, my eyelids heavy with sleep?