إِلى كَم يَنفِرُ الدينارُ مِنّي

إِلى كَم يَنفِرُ الدينارُ مِنّي

فَلَستُ أَخاهُ بَل غَيري أَخوهُ

فَلَستُ أَخاهُ بَل غَيري أَخوهُ

How long will the dinar flee from me?

How far the dinar flees from me,

For I am not its brother; someone else is its brother.

It is not my brother, but another's sibling.

فَأَصفَرُهُ بُعادي كُلَّ حُرٍّ

فَأَصفَرُهُ بُعادي كُلَّ حُرٍّ

وَأَعدانا الفَرَنجُ فَهُم بَنوهُ

وَأَعدانا الفَرَنجُ فَهُم بَنوهُ

For its yellow coin estranges me from every freeborn man.

My estrangement makes it pale and sallow,

And the Franks are our worst enemies, for they are its sons.

While the Franks adopt it as their own.