1. الله في الحب ألحان واضواء

    والله في السلم أزهار وأنداء

    God in love is melodies and lights.

    And God in peace is blossoms and dew.

  2. حييت يا سلم هذا يوم سيّده

    فلتخجل الحرب ولتعتزّ ورقاء

    Hail, O peace! This is its master's day.

    Let war be ashamed, and let the gray dove take pride.

  3. وليفرح العالم المنكوب عن سفه

    فقد تعالت على الضوضاء أشذاء

    And let the world, stricken through folly, rejoice,

    for fragrances have risen above the din.

  4. إني أشم عطورا لا أكيفها

    لكن يكيفها للنفس إيحاء

    I smell perfumes whose nature I cannot define,

    yet inspiration gives them form for the soul.

  5. فأين مبعثها الروحي يشملني

    فليس تدركه عين وإصغاء

    Where, then, is their spiritual source that enfolds me?

    For neither eye nor attentive listening perceives it.

  6. لعل في الجامع المبرور تذكرة

    فها هو الجامع المبرور وضاء

    Perhaps the blessed mosque holds a reminder;

    behold, the blessed mosque is radiant.

  7. من وضع أمجد عن بر بملّته

    وكذاك يصطحب الأكفاء أكفاء

    Founded by Amjad out of devotion to his faith,

    and thus equals keep company with equals.

  8. بلاد إقبال لا فاتتك فلسفة

    تعلي السلام ولا نالتك ضراء

    Land of Iqbal, may no philosophy pass you by

    that exalts peace, and may no adversity touch you.

  9. إن السلام هو الإسلام من قدم

    كما رآه الألباء الأجلّاء

    Indeed, peace is Islam, from of old,

    as the illustrious sages saw it.

  10. وليس أليق رمزا في رسالته

    من جامع حوله الإيمان أضواء

    And no symbol is more fitting for its message

    than a mosque surrounded by the lights of faith,

  11. في جادة أسهمت في عرسها أمم

    وبوركت فإذا الظلماء لألاء

    on an avenue in whose wedding nations took part,

    and it was blessed—behold, darkness became radiance.

  12. ما بال مصر تناست ثم مغرسها

    وفي ثرى مصر للجنات أفياء

    What ails Egypt, that she has chosen to forget her roots there,

    while Egypt's soil holds the shades of gardens?

  13. كأنما ما مشى نور المسيح بها

    ونوره في جميع الأرض مشاء

    As though Christ's light had never walked through her,

    though his light walks throughout the earth.

  14. كأنما مريم العذراء ما سكنت

    بأرضها وكأن الأرض جرداء

    As though Mary the Virgin had never dwelt

    in her land, and as though the land were barren.

  15. وأين ما وهب الأردن من شجر

    وفي بساتينه الأدواح غنّاء

    And where are the trees Jordan bestowed,

    while the great trees in its gardens are lush?

  16. واين قدسي أرضيه التي سطعت

    أمالها اليوم في الإسراء إسراء

    And where is my Jerusalem—its two lands [unclear wording]—whose

    hopes shone today in the Night Journey, a journey by night?

  17. يا ليتني المتنبي الآن صولته

    تهز من أذنه للحقف صماء

    Oh, would that I were al-Mutanabbi now—his onslaught

    shakes whoever has an ear deaf to the sand dune [unclear wording],

  18. حتى أعلم قومي في توجسهم

    أن العروبة كالإسلام زهراء

    so I might teach my people, in their apprehension,

    that Arab identity, like Islam, is radiant;

  19. أن التسامح اسنى ما يشاد به

    وما عداه فللإسلام أعداء

    that tolerance is the noblest thing to extol,

    and all besides it are Islam's enemies.

  20. شدا السلام وأنفاس المسيح به

    وما عداه فللإسلام أعداء

    Peace sang, and Christ's breath was within it,

    and all besides it are Islam's enemies.

  21. شدا السلام وأنفاس المسيح به

    فكل ما رف أنغام وأصداء

    Peace sang, and Christ's breath was within it,

    so all that fluttered was melodies and echoes.

  22. وإن تكن قد تناهت في مشاعرنا

    من العواطف أطهار وعذراء

    And though within our feelings there may have reached their height

    pure and virginal affections,

  23. فهللي يا بروجا طالما هتفت

    كما هتفت وناجاها الأرقاء

    rejoice, O towers that have so often cried out,

    as they cried out and the enslaved whispered to them.

  24. وحررينا من الأحزان قاهرة

    كما تحرر من أسداده الماء

    And free us from sorrows, Cairo,

    as water is freed from its dams.