على البلجيك ما ذكرت سلامٌ

يفوح فيملأ الافواه عطرا

Belgium was not mentioned with peace,

That would fill mouths with fragrance,

يشنف اذن سامعه صداه

ويشرح منه اذ يتلوه صدرا

Please the hearing of those who listen to its echo,

And expand the chests of those who recite it.

سلام لا أرى في الارض طرًّا

بنفحتهِ من البلجيك أحرى

I see no path on earth more worthy

Of its fragrance than Belgium.

ومن أولى بهِ منها وفيها ال

فخار أقام والشرف أستقرا

And who is more deserving of it than Belgium,

Where valor resided and honor settled.

أتت في حفظها لهما فعالاً

تنال بذكرها مدحاً وشكرا

It came protecting them with deeds,

Gaining praise and thanks through mentioning it.

فعالاً في سجلِ الدهر أضحت

تدوَّن كلها سطراً فسطرا

Deeds that in the register of time have become

Lines, written one after another.

وفيها ذكر أهل الارض هذي ال

بلاد يظلُّ حياً مستمرا

And in it the mention of the people of this

Country that will remain alive continuously.

بلاد في سبيل المجد ضحت

بأغلى ما بهِ الامجاد تشرى

A country that sacrificed in the path of glory

The most precious thing glory is bought with.

بارواح وان كرمت وعزَّت

رأتها دون ما صانتهُ قدرا

Souls that esteemed and honored,

Saw them below what they protected precious.

اراد الخائن الغدار منها ال

دُّخول الى فرنسا كي يكرَّا

The treacherous betrayer wanted

To enter France and double-cross.

ورام بها المرور فأَنذرته

بأن يرتد عنها لا يمرَّا

And he intended to pass through it, so it warned him

To turn away from it, not to pass.

ولما أَن رأته غير صاغٍ

لها وعلى المرور بها مُصرا

And when it saw him not complying

To it and insistent on passing through it.

تصدت غير خائفةٍ لصد ال

مغير تذيقه منها الأمرَّا

It stood undaunted to bar the

Transgressor, making him taste bitterness from it.

وذي نامور شاهدةٌ لها بال

جهاد وقد تكون لياج أدرى

And Namur bears witness for it with

Struggle, and Liège may be more knowledgeable.

بلادٌ نامور شاهدةُ لها بال

وغى ولبؤسها صارت مقرَّا

The country of Namur bears witness to its

Violence and misery, it became a settler.

وباتت كلها قفراً يباباً

وكانت في ربى العمران زهرا

And it all became empty ruins,

While it was in the nurture of civilization, a flower.

وأقليم كغار الليث أضحت

دماءُ بنيه فيه تراق هدرا

And the region of the brave lions became

The blood of its sons in it pouring recklessly.

تحمَّل من يد الالمان ما لو

عرا صخراً لكان أذاب صخرا

It suffered from the German hand what if

Poured on rock, would have melted rock.

ومطمار الفناء امتدّ فيه

وغادره من الفتيان صفرا

And the projectile of annihilation stretched in it

Leaving it devoid of young men.

واوسع أهله الباقين ضيقاً

وتنكيلاً وارهاقاً وقهرا

And it constrained its remaining people

With hardship, torment, exhaustion, and coercion.

وجرّ وراءه ثكلاً ويتُماً

وترميلاً لهم وهلمَّ جرَّا

And it dragged behind it bereavement, orphanhood,

Crippling them with blows and more.

فهذا نادبٌ لأبٍ وعمٍ

وذي زوجاً وتلك ابناً وصهرا

So this is a grieving father, uncle,

One with a wife, another a son, and in-law.

ويا ويل الظلوم فسوف يلقى

عقاباً يبقى وذكرى

And oh woe to the unjust! For he will meet

A punishment that remains and a lesson!