يا أيها السَّادرُ في غَيِّهِ

يا واقِفاً فَوْقَ حُطَامِ الجِباهْ

O wanderer lost in ignorance

O you who wander heedless in your error,

O you standing atop the rubble of fronts

O you who stand upon the ruins of crushed brows,

مهلاً ففي أَنَّاتِ من دُسْتَهُمْ

صوتٌ رهيبٌ سوفَ يَدْوِي صَدَاهْ

Wait, for in the groans of those you persecuted

Take heed! For in the groans of those you trampled,

Is a terrible voice whose echo will roar

Is a dreadful voice whose echo shall resound.

لا تأمَنَنَّ الدَّهْرَ إمَّا غَفَا

في كهفِهِ الدَّاجي وطالتْ رُؤَاهْ

Do not feel secure from fate though it slumbers

Do not feel safe from Fate because it sleeps,

In its darkening cave with visions prolonged

Within its dark cave, while its visions stretch out long;

فإنْ قَضَى اليومُ وما قَبْلَهُ

ففي الغدِ الحيِّ صَبَاحُ الحَياهْ

For if today and what preceded it pass

For if today and all the past have perished,

Tomorrow's dawn brings the morn of life

In the living tomorrow lies the dawn of life.

يا أَيُّها الجبَّارُ لا تزدري

فالحقُّ جبَّارٌ طويلُ الأَنَاهْ

O tyrant, do not slight

O tyrant, do not look with scorn,

For truth is a tyrant, far-reaching

For Truth is a giant of enduring patience;

يَغْفَى وفي أَجْفَانِهِ يقْظَةٌ

ترنو إلى الفَجْرِ الَّذي لا تَرَاهْ

It slumbers, yet in its eyelids is an awakening

It slumbers, yet within its eyelids a wakefulness remains,

Yearning for the dawn you cannot see

Gazing at the dawn you cannot see.