1. We Arabs, O you who claim Arabism
While we are the people of monotheism and you are its bastards

2. We are the sunrises of glory while you are its sunsets
We are the people of history while you are its strangers

3. On the day of poverty, you blamed us for its problems
And today, after oil, you started claiming ancestry from us

4. And on the day of poverty, we had rampant nomadism
While today you have become nomads and bedouins like us

5. If inclination was up to you, you would have prevented its blowing
No doubt, the Sustainer of creation is the Lord of lords

6. And if rain was up to you, you would have prevented its pouring
No doubt, the sustenance of creation is from The Giver

7. The army of envy has led wars against us
Each one wanting to plant his fang upon our body

8. Waging war on benefactors, you see it as punishment
By Allah, I hope you do not incite more wars

9. We have given so much without expecting reward
Except from He who we hope in and is never failed

10. And we have supported many who were in distress
It is our habit to race towards those in adversity

11. And we have saved many from the difficulties of their roads
Taking them into our sanctuary when their companions abandoned them

12. We built our houses with goodness
While you robbed your houses of all that is good

13. Allah quenched us from our freshwater sea
While your rivers spill like flooding seas

14. We planted love in fertile soil
While you planted hatred of generations in ashes

15. And we called for peace, time and again
While you sold the pigeon of peace for a crow

16. O you who called for war, do you know its perils
Do not think that war is just threats and talk

17. He who ignites the fires of war will have sleepless nights
And he who kindles the flames of strife will be engulfed

18. What clothes men is not their attire
But religion and honorable deeds are their robes