عرابي كيف أوفيك الملاما

جمعت على ملامتك الأناما

Urabi, how can I give you your full measure of blame?

I have rallied all mankind to blame you.

فقف بالتل واستمع العظاما

فإن لها كما لهمو كلاما

So stand at the Tell and listen to the bones,

For they have speech, just as mankind does.

سمعت من الورى جدا وهزلا

فانصت إذ تقول القول فصلا

You have heard from people earnest words and jests;

So listen when they speak the decisive verdict,

كانك قاتل والحكم يتلى

عليك وانت تنتظر الحماما

As though you were a murderer and sentence were being read

Against you, while you await death.

ولا تامل من الأموات عفوا

وإن كان الحسين اباك دعوى

Do not hope for pardon from the dead,

Even if Hussein were your father, as you claim.

ارقت دماءهم لعبا ولهوا

ولم تعرف لغاليها مقاما

You spilled their blood in play and idle amusement,

And gave their precious blood no due regard.

دماء قد فدتك ولم تصنها

نفضت يديك يوم التل منها

Blood that ransomed you, yet you did not safeguard it;

You shook your hands free of it on the day of the Tell.

فكيف تنام عين الله عنها

إذا غفل الملا عنها وناما

How, then, could God's eye sleep and neglect it,

If the multitude heedlessly neglects it and sleeps?

لقد سفكت بجهلك شر سفك

لغير شهادة او رفع ملك

In your ignorance you shed it in the worst way,

For neither martyrdom nor the exaltation of a realm.

وانت على قديم العز تبكى

وتندب رتبة لك او وساما

And you weep over bygone glory,

And mourn a rank once yours, or a medal.

تقول لك العظام مقال صدق

ورب مقالة من غير نطق

The bones speak words of truth to you,

And many an utterance comes without speech.

قتلت المسلمين بغير حق

وضيّعتَ الأمانة والذماما

You killed the Muslims without right,

And squandered the trust and pledged protection.

تقول لقد بقيت وما بقينا

ثبتنا للعدا حتى فنينا

They say: you survived, while we did not.

We stood firm against the enemies until we perished.

فما حكم الليالي في بنينا

وما صنع الأرامل واليتامى

What have the nights decreed for our sons?

And how have the widows and orphans fared?

وتقول وصوتها رعد قوىّ

ونحل في الضمير لها دوى

And they speak, their voice a mighty thunder,

And bees, with their buzzing in the conscience:

لقد مات الكرام وأنت حىّ

حياة تنقضى عارا وذاما

The noble have died, while you are alive,

A life that passes in disgrace and blame.

تقول وصوتها ملأ الدهورا

وأنت أصم من حجر شعورا

They speak, their voice filling the ages,

And you are deafer in feeling than a stone.

عرابي هل تركت لنا قبورا

يقول الطائفون بها سلاما

Urabi, have you left us graves

Where those who walk around them may say: Peace?

تقول وصورتها بلغ السماء

وأسمع خير من سمع النداء

They speak, and their image reached heaven,

And made the best of those who hear the call hear them:

إله العالمين أجب دماء

تصيح الانتقاما الانتقاما

God of all worlds, answer blood

Crying: Vengeance! Vengeance!

تقول جبنت حين الظلم ينمو

وثر ولم يكن في مصر ظلم

They say: you were cowardly when tyranny grew,

And rose up when there was no tyranny in Egypt.

وغرك من أبي العباس حلم

ولما يكتمل في الحكم عاما

And Abu al-Abbas's forbearance deceived you,

Though he had not yet completed a year in power.

وقفت له وما ظلم الأمير

ولم يكن آطمأن به السرير

You stood against him, though the prince had done no wrong,

Nor had the throne yet grown secure beneath him.

فجل الخطب واضطربت أمور

عييت بأن تكون لها نظاما

Then calamity swelled and affairs grew troubled,

You were unable to bring them order.

تقول مقالة فيها اعتبار

عشية حال بينكما الفرار

They speak words containing a lesson,

On the evening when flight came between you and them:

أموتٌ يا عرابي ثم عار

يلازمنا بقائدنا لزاما

Is it death, Urabi, and then disgrace

That clings to us through our commander, inescapably?

رمانا بالجبانة كل شعب

وسبتنا الخلائق أى سب

Every nation has branded us cowards,

And all creation has reviled us most bitterly,

لأجلك حين تخرج لحرب

ولا جردت في الهيجا حساما

Because of you, when you go out to war,

Yet never draw a sword in battle.

وقيل زعيمهم ولى الفرارا

وفي بلبيس قد ساق القطارا

They said: their leader turned to flight,

And at Belbeis he drove the train,

وخلف جيشه فوضى حيارى

وقد بلغ العِدى فيهم مراما

And left his army in chaos, bewildered,

While the enemies had achieved their aim against them.

نسائل عن عرابي لا نراه

وننشد حاميا خلّى حماه

We ask after Urabi but do not see him,

And seek a protector who abandoned his domain.

ركبنا الموت لم نركب سواه

ونت ركبت للعار الظلاما

We rode death; we rode nothing else,

But you rode the darkness toward disgrace.

رويدا يا شعوب الأرض مهلا

فما كنا لهذا اللوم أهلا

Gently, peoples of the earth—hold back!

We did not deserve this blame.

أراكم واحد جبنا وجهلا

فأنساكم مواقفنا العظاما

One man showed you cowardice and ignorance,

And made you forget our mighty stands.

سلوا تاريخنا وسلوا عليا

ألم يملأ بنا الدنيا دويا

Ask our history, and ask Ali:

Did he not fill the world with our thunder?

لقد عاش الأمير بنا قويا

وعشنا تحت رايته كراما

The prince lived mighty through us,

And we lived nobly beneath his banner.

يَعزّبنا ويقهر من يشاء

كأنا تحت رايته القضاء

Through us he gains might and subdues whom he wills,

As though, beneath his banner, we were destiny.

لنا في ظلها وله علاء

ومجد يملأ الدنيا ابتساما

Beneath its shade, there is exaltation for us and for him,

And glory that fills the world with smiles.

ألم نكف الحجاز عوان حرب

وأنقذناه من حرب وكرب

Did we not spare the Hejaz a renewed war,

And save it from war and anguish?

فكنا للمهيمن خير حزب

أجرنا الدين والبيت الحراما

We were the Guardian's finest host,

We sheltered the faith and the Sacred House.

سلوه وأهله أيام ثاروا

ألم نقبض عليه وهو نار

Ask it and its people about the days they rose:

Did we not seize it while it was aflame?

وكان الدين ليس له قرار

فثبتناه يومئذ دعاما

The faith then had no firm foundation,

And that day we fixed it firmly on supports.

ألم نك خلف إبراهيم لما

رمى بجواده الأبراج شما

Were we not behind Ibrahim when

He hurled his steed at the lofty towers,

وكبرّ يوم مورة ثم سمى

فكنا الصف إذ كان الإماما

And proclaimed God's greatness on the day of Morea, then rose high?

We were the ranks when he was the imam.

ترانا في مواقفه نليه

كما جمع الأب الوافي بنيه

You see us close behind him in his stands,

As a faithful father gathers his sons.

وليس الجيش إلا قائديه

إذا ما قوموا الجيش استقاما

An army is nothing but its commanders:

When they set the army straight, it stands straight.

نلبى إن أشار براحتيه

إلى حصن فيسبقنا إليه

We answer when he gestures with his palms

Toward a fortress, and he reaches it before us,

كأن سميّه في بردتيه

يخوض النار في الهيجا سلاما

As though his namesake, in his two mantles,

Were passing unharmed through the fire of battle.

وفي اليونان أحسنا البلاء

وهز المسلمون بنا اللواء

In Greece we acquitted ourselves nobly,

And through us the Muslims waved the banner.

وقدّمنا بوارجنا فداء

على الأمواج تضطرم اضطراما

We offered our warships as a sacrifice,

Blazing fiercely upon the waves.

وفي البلغار صلنا ثم صلنا

وطاولنا الجبال بها فطلنا

In Bulgaria we charged, and charged again,

And vied with its mountains in height, surpassing them.

وأنزلنا العدوّ وما نزلنا

وكنا للرواسى الشم هاما

We brought the enemy down, but did not descend,

And stood as heads above the lofty, rooted mountains.

وسل بأسنا سودان ومصرا

فبعد الله والمهدىّ أدرى

Ask Sudan and Egypt about our valor,

For, after God, the Mahdi knows best

بأنا الأسد إقداما وأجرا

إذا اصدم الفريقان اصطداما

That we are lions in daring and in reward,

When the two sides clash.

وفي المسكوف شدنا ذكرا مصرا

على قتلى بها منا وأسرى

In Muscovy we built up Egypt's renown,

Upon our slain and captives there.

بلغنا نحن والأتراك عذرا

وأرضينا المهيمن والإماما

We and the Turks earned our vindication,

And pleased the Guardian and the imam.

وكان لنا بلاء في كريد

بيوم ثائر الهيجا شديد

We had a trial of valor in Crete,

On a fierce day of raging battle.

أذبناها وكانت من حديد

وأطفأنا لثورتها ضِراما

We melted it, though it was made of iron,

And quenched the blaze of its revolt.

رفعنا الملك بالمهج الغوالي

تسيل على القواضب والعوالي

We raised the realm with our precious lifeblood,

Flowing upon cutting swords and lofty spears.

وبالأذكار لم نحيى الليالي

ولا بتنا على ضيم نياما

It was not with pious recitations that we kept the nights alive,

Nor did we sleep through the night under oppression.

تقول لك العظام دع الأماني

ولا تحِفل بسيف غير قاني

The bones tell you: abandon wishful hopes,

And pay no heed to a sword unstained with blood.

وليس بذى الفقار ولا اليماني

ولا المقهور دفعا واستلاما

It is neither Dhu al-Fiqar nor a Yemeni blade,

Nor one overpowered in parrying and receiving blows.

أراح الله منك حدِيدَتَيه

وأنسى الناس ما علموا عليه

God relieved its two iron pieces of you,

And made people forget what they knew against it.

وأنت تنبه الدنيا إليه

وتفتأ تذكر العار الجُساما

Yet you draw the world's attention to it,

And keep recalling the enormous disgrace.

تحنّ له كأنك لم تضعه

فسعه بجبنك المأثور سعه

You yearn for it as though you had not laid it aside;

So shelter it with your storied cowardice—shelter it.

ودعه في ظلام الغمد دعه

لعل مع الظلام له احتراما

Leave it in the scabbard's darkness—leave it,

Perhaps in darkness it may retain some respect.

أما والله ما لُعَب الصغار

ولا خُشُب يقلدن الجوارى

By God, neither children's toys,

Nor wooden pieces worn by maidens,

ولا الأوتار في ايدى الجوارى

بأحسن منه في الهيجا قياما

Nor strings in maidens' hands,

Are better than it at standing in battle.

وهذا الصدر أضيق أن يحلَّى

وأن يسترجع الشأن الأجلا

This breast is too narrow to be adorned,

Or to regain its loftier standing.

فلم يك للقنا يوما محلا

ولا لقى الرصاص ولا السهاما

It was never a target for lances,

Nor did it meet bullets or arrows.

لقد ضاع الفخار على الخفير

وضاعت عنده نعم الأمير

Glory was wasted upon the guard,

And the prince's favors were wasted on him.

أمن تحت السلاح إلى وزير

يسمى السيد البطل الهماما

From serving under arms to a minister,

Called the lord, the gallant hero?

عمَّى في الشرق كان ولا يزال

فما برحت معاليه تنال

Blindness existed in the East, and still does.

Its high offices are still attained,

ويبلغ شاوها الأقصى رجال

لهم في الجهل قدر لا يسامى

And men reach their furthest heights,

Whose standing in ignorance is unsurpassed.

فخذ رتب المعالي أو فدعها

وإن شئت اشِرها أو شئت بعها

Take the lofty ranks, then, or leave them;

If you wish, buy them; or, if you wish, sell them.

فإنك إن تنلها لا تضعها

وحاشا ترفع الرتب الطغاما

For if you attain them, you do not lower them;

Far be it for ranks to elevate the base.

تقول كل العظام وأنت لاه

تمنى النفس من مال وجاه

All the bones speak while you are heedless,

Promising yourself wealth and prestige,

وتكذب بالصلاة على إله

ولما بتلغ الروح التراقي

And lying in your prayers to a god,

While the soul has not yet reached the collarbones.

سنأخذ منك يوما بالخناق

ولما تبلغ الروح التراقي

One day we shall seize you by the throat,

While the soul has not yet reached the collarbones.

تلاقى يوم ذلك ما تلاقى

دماء الخلق والموت الزؤاما

On that day you will encounter what you encounter:

The people's blood and a dreadful death.

نجيئك يوم يحضُرك الحمام

يسل حسامه ولنا حسام

We shall come to you when death visits you,

Drawing its sword—and we have a sword.

وتسبق سهمه منا سهام

لها بالحق رام لا يرامى

Our arrows will outrun its arrow,

With a just archer none can challenge.

نجيئك يوم تحضُرك المنون

ويأتى العقل إذ يمضى الجنون

We shall come to you when doom visits you,

And reason comes as madness departs.

نقول لنا على الجاني ديون

فياربَّ الدم احتكم احتكاما

We shall say: the culprit owes us debts;

O Lord of blood, judge decisively!

ونُسأل ما جنى ماذا أساء

ليلقى عن جنايته الجزاء

We shall be asked: what crime did he commit, what wrong,

That he may receive the penalty for his crime?

فنرفعها إلى البارى دماء

ونعرضها له جثثا وهاما

We bring it before the Creator as blood,

And display it to Him as corpses and heads.

نقول جنى ومنَّ بما جناه

وحاول أن تُردّ له علاه

We say: he did wrong and claimed it as a favor,

And tried to have his high standing restored,

وضيع أنفسنا ذهبت فداه

وأنت الله فانتقم انتقاما

And squandered our souls, which perished to ransom him.

You are God: exact vengeance!

هناك ترى جهنم وهي تُحمَى

وتذكر ما مضى جرما فجرما

There you will see Hell being heated,

And recall all that passed, crime by crime.

فَتُشرقَ بالدم المسفوك ظلما

وبالوطن العثور ولا قياما

You will choke on the blood unjustly shed,

And on the homeland, stumbling with no rising.