1. كَمْ شَهِيداً خَلَّدَ التَّا

    رِيخُ فِيهِ وَشَهِيدا

    How many a martyr has history

    immortalized in it, and how many a martyr

  2. ذَاقَ مِنْ تَعْذِيبِ دُقْلَتْ

    يَانِ نَاراً وَحَدِيدا

    tasted, through Diocletian's torture,

    fire and iron,

  3. سَاجِداً لِلهِ لاَ يَرْ

    ضَى لِمَخْلُوقٍ سُجُودا

    prostrate before God, refusing

    to bow before any created being,

  4. وَاهِباً دُنْياهُ لِدِيِـ

    ِـنِ وَمَا كَانَ مُرِيدا

    offering his worldly life for a faith,

    and desiring nothing.

  5. إِنْ تَمَلَّكْتَ فَلاَ تَتَّ

    خِذِ النَّاسَ عَبِيدا

    If you gain dominion, do not

    take people as slaves.

  6. ضَلَّ مَنْ كَانَ لِمَا لَمْ

    يَرِدِ الْقَوْمَ مُرِيدا

    Astray is he who desires what

    the people have not willed.

  7. زَمَنٌ خَطَّ بِهِ آ

    باؤُكُمْ سَفَراً مُجِيدا

    An age in which your fathers

    penned a glorious book;

  8. ثُمَّ رَدَّ الصَّبرُ عَنْهُمْ

    ذلِكَ الْكَيْدَ الْمُبِيدا

    then patience warded off from them

    that devastating plot.

  9. وَانْقَضَتْ تِلْكَ النُحُوسُ الِـ

    ِـدُّكْنُ بَلْ عَادَتْ سُعُودَا

    And those dark misfortunes passed away;

    nay, they turned to good fortune.

  10. يَبْذُرُ الْبَغْيُ دِمَاءً

    يَنْبَتُ العَدْلُ وُروُدا

    Oppression sows blood;

    justice makes roses grow.