صنو الرسول تحية وسلام

عزّت بك الأعراب والإسلامُ

Kindred spirit of the Messenger, greetings and peace!

Through you the Bedouin and Islam grew mighty.

ياذا المهابة والوقار وعزة

وفتى حمي الانف ليس يضام

O you of majesty, dignity, and might,

And proud-spirited youth whom none can wrong!

فاروق يا رمز العدالة والنهى

لك في القلوب محبة وغرام

Faruq, O symbol of justice and reason,

Hearts hold love and passion for you.

او ما ترانا حول عيدك نلتقي

وبفضل ذاك قلوبنا تلتام

Or do you not see us gathering for your anniversary,

And our hearts uniting thanks to it?

واذكرياتك اذ تعود بنا إلى

ايام كنت ويا لها ايام

Ah, memories of you, as they carry us back to

The days when you lived—and what days they were!

ايام كان المجد مرتفع الذرى

وعلى جبين الدهر منه سهام

Days when glory's peaks stood high,

And its arrows were upon the brow of time.

أيام كنا امة عربية

تسعى إلى العلياء ليس تنام

Days when we were an Arab nation,

Striving for the heights, never sleeping.

أيام كان الحق أوفر قوة

وتعانق الصمصام والاقلام

Days when truth possessed greater strength,

And the keen sword and the pens embraced.

يا ايها الرجل العظيم وذكره

حفلت به الاحقاب والاعوام

O great man, whose memory

Has filled the ages and the years!

وافى على جمل أجب وخادم

لم تثنه الاوصاب والآلام

He arrived on a humpless camel, with a servant;

Ailments and pains did not deter him.

ما اعدل الفاروق يمشي خاشعاً

والرمل لا ظهر البعير سنام

How just is al-Faruq, walking humbly,

With the sand, not the camel's back, for his hump!

والشمس تشرق فوقه ويزينه

نور اليقين وهيبة وسلام

And the sun shines above him, and he is adorned by

The light of certainty, majesty, and peace.

طوباك أذ قدّت البعير لخادم

فتعادل الأسياد والخدام

Blessed are you, when you led the camel for a servant,

And so masters and servants became equals.

يا فاتح القدس العظيم وسيداً

من سادة هم خيرّون كرامُ

O great conqueror of Jerusalem, and a lord

Among lords who are virtuous and noble!

أجريت حكمك في البلاد ولم تجر

وبمثل حكمك تفخر الأحكام

You exercised your rule in the lands, yet did no wrong;

And rulings take pride in rule like yours.

أفنيت عمرك خشية وتعبداً

وسهرت ليلك والانام نيام

You spent your life in reverent fear and worship,

And kept vigil through your night while humankind slept.

وأذبت نفسك في الفضيلة والتقى

وعراك من فرط الذهول سقام

And melted your soul in virtue and piety,

And illness seized you from overwhelming bewilderment.

وحقرت يا صنو الرسول حياتنا

ونبذتها وحياتنا اوهام

And you scorned this life of ours, O kindred spirit of the Messenger,

And cast it aside—our life is mere illusion.

عمرَ العظيم ألستَ اعدل فاتح

شهدّت بعفة نفسه الاقوام

Great Umar, are you not the most just conqueror

Whose purity of soul the peoples have attested?

أعداء قومك حين يقرن ذكرهم

بك حُطموا وكأنهم اصنام

Your people's foes, when their names are compared

With yours, are shattered as though they were idols.

فتحوا فجاروا واعتدوا يا ويحهم

اعداء قومك ناكثون لئام

They conquered, then ruled unjustly and transgressed—woe to them!

Your people's enemies are base oath-breakers.

شتان بينك في الحياة وبينهم

النور انت وهم هبت ظلام

What a gulf there is in life between you and them!

You are the light; they are darkness that swept in.

فتحوا البلاد وقال فاتحهم هنا

مجد الصليبيين عاد يقام

They conquered the lands, and their conqueror said, “Here

The Crusaders' glory is being raised anew.”

فتحت انت وقلت نصرانية

لا تحقروا وليحمها الإسلام

You conquered and said, “Christianity—

Do not despise it; let Islam protect it.”

ما ابعد القولين هذا سائغ

عذب وذاك تمجه الافهام

How far apart the two sayings! This one is palatable,

Sweet, while minds spit the other out.

لا تشمتوا يا هؤلاء فاننا

قوم على رغم الزمان كرام

Do not gloat, you there, for we are

A noble people, despite the times.

خلوا البلاد لنا والا بينكم

يا عابثين وبيننا الايام

Leave the lands to us; or else, between you—

O mischief-makers—and us, the days will judge.