تَصبّحَ أَقوامٌ عَن المَجدِ وَالعُلا

تَصبّحَ أَقوامٌ عَن المَجدِ وَالعُلا

فَأَضحوا نياماً وَهوَ لَم يَتَصَبَّحِ

فَأَضحوا نياماً وَهوَ لَم يَتَصَبَّحِ

Some people slept the morning away, far from glory and the heights;

Some people slept late, heedless of glory and eminence;

by noon they still lay sleeping—glory had not slept in.

So they passed the morning asleep, while he did not sleep late.

إِذا كَدَحت اعراضُ قَومٍ بلؤمِهم

إِذا كَدَحت اعراضُ قَومٍ بلؤمِهم

نَجا سالِماً مِن لؤمِهم لَم يُكدَّحِ

نَجا سالِماً مِن لؤمِهم لَم يُكدَّحِ

When a people’s honor is scarred by their own baseness,

When a people's honor is scarred by their baseness,

whoever escapes their baseness unscathed remains unblemished.

He escapes their baseness unharmed and unscarred.

لدينكَ إِنَّ المَجدَ أَطلقَ رحلَه

لدينكَ إِنَّ المَجدَ أَطلقَ رحلَه

لَدَيكَ عَلى خَصبٍ خَصيبٍ وَمسَرَحِ

لَدَيكَ عَلى خَصبٍ خَصيبٍ وَمسَرَحِ

By your faith, glory has unloosed its saddle

By your faith, glory has unfastened its saddle

at your abode, amid luxuriant abundance and broad pasture.

Beside you, on lush, fertile pasture and grazing land.