أَنتَ كَالاحتلال زَهواً وَكبراً

أَنتَ كَالاحتلال زَهواً وَكبراً

أَنتَ كَالانتداب عجباً وَتيها

أَنتَ كَالانتداب عجباً وَتيها

You are like the occupation in pride and arrogance.

You are like the occupation, arrogance and pride

You are like the Mandate in vanity and haughtiness.

You are like the mandate, wonder and loss

أَنتَ كَالهجرة الَّتي فَرضوها

أَنتَ كَالهجرة الَّتي فَرضوها

لَيسَ من حيلة لقومك فيها

لَيسَ من حيلة لقومك فيها

You are like the immigration they imposed,

You are like the emigration they imposed

against which your people have no recourse.

Your people have no stratagem for it

أَنتَ أَنكى مِن بائع الأرض عندي

أَنتَ أَنكى مِن بائع الأرض عندي

أَنتَ أَعذاره الَّتي يدعيها

أَنتَ أَعذاره الَّتي يدعيها

In my eyes, you are more harmful than a seller of land.

You are more painful to me than the seller of land

You are the excuses he invokes.

You are his excuses he claims

لَكَ وَجه كَأَنَّهُ سَمسا

لَكَ وَجه كَأَنَّهُ سَمسا

ر عَلى شَرط أَن يَكون وَجيها

ر عَلى شَرط أَن يَكون وَجيها

You have a face like a broker's—

You have a face as though it were

provided he is a man of standing.

A document on the condition it be prestigious

وَجَبين مثل الجَريدة لَما

وَجَبين مثل الجَريدة لَما

لَم تَجد كاتِباً عَفيفاً نزيها

لَم تَجد كاتِباً عَفيفاً نزيها

And a forehead like a newspaper when

And a forehead like a journal when

it found no upright, incorruptible writer.

It could not find a decent, honest writer

وَحَديث فيهِ اِبتِذال اِحتِجاج

وَحَديث فيهِ اِبتِذال اِحتِجاج

كُلَما نَمقوه عادَ كريها

كُلَما نَمقوه عادَ كريها

And speech with the triteness of a protest—

And talk in which there is common protestation

whenever they embellish it, it turns repugnant again.

Every time they groom it, it returns loathsome

جَمَعت فيك عصبة لِلبَلايا

جَمَعت فيك عصبة لِلبَلايا

وَأَرى كُل أُمة تَشتَكيها

وَأَرى كُل أُمة تَشتَكيها

A league of calamities has gathered in you,

You have gathered in yourself a gang of calamities

and I see every nation complaining of it.

And I see every nation complaining of it