هنيئاً بِرغمِ العلمِ وَالفضلِ والتُقى

هنيئاً بِرغمِ العلمِ وَالفضلِ والتُقى

عُلاً نِلتَها قسراً وحاوَلتَها ختلا

عُلاً نِلتَها قسراً وحاوَلتَها ختلا

Congratulations—in defiance of learning, merit, and piety—

Congratulations, despite knowledge, merit and piety

on heights you attained by force and sought by deceit.

You have attained heights by force though you feigned them by guile

تَسَلَّقتَها لمّا رَأيتَ حماتَها

تَسَلَّقتَها لمّا رَأيتَ حماتَها

يَذودونَ عن أبوابِها الوَغدَ وَالنَذلا

يَذودونَ عن أبوابِها الوَغدَ وَالنَذلا

You scaled them when you saw their guardians

You climbed up to them when you saw the zealots around them

driving the scoundrel and the knave away from their gates.

Repel from their gates the vile and the base