رُوَيدَكَ أَيُّها الجَبّارُ فينا

فَإِنَّ الرَأيَ أَلّا تَزدَرينا

Slow down, you tyrant, do not scorn us

For it is not wise to belittle us

رُوَيدَكَ أَيُّها القاضي عَلَينا

قَضاءَ الظالِمينَ الناقِمينا

Slow down, you unjust judge over us

Judging like the hostile, vengeful ones

زَعَمتَ الحُكمَ حُكمَكَ في كِتابٍ

كَذَبتَ بِهِ الخَلائِقَ أَجمَعينا

You claimed your rule was just, in a book

With which you deceived all people

وَما غَفلوا عَنِ الأَحقادِ تَغلي

مَراجِلُها وَما جَهلوا اليَقينا

They were not unaware of the grudges boiling

Inside you, nor were they oblivious of the truth

نَفَثتَ سُمومَها إِذ ضاقَ عَنها

فُؤادُكَ وَالقُلوبُ تَضيعُ حينا

You spewed out their poisons when your heart

Could not contain them, while hearts lose their way

زَعَمتَ سُراتَنا وَذَوي نُهانا

مَهاذيرَ المَقاوِلِ كاذِبينا

You claimed our elites and protectors

Were just prattling embellishers

إِذا ما جِئتَهُم أَرضَوكَ مَدحاً

فَإِن فَارَقتَ عادوا لاعِنينا

When they come to you, they please you with praises

But when they leave, they curse you

زَعَمتَ بِلادَهُم هانَت عَلَيهِم

فَما يَشكونَ عَهدَ الغاصِبينا

You claimed their countries are worthless to them

So they do not complain of the usurpers' pledge

زَعَمتَ حَياتَهُم أَرضاً وَماءً

تَجودُ بِهِ أَكُفُّ المانِحينا

You claimed their lives are but land and water

Bestowed by the most generous palms

زَعَمتَ بِنا مَزاعِمَ كاذِباتٍ

وَما يُغني مَقالُ الزاعِمينا

You made false claims about us

And the words of the pretentious do not benefit

زَعَمتَ الدينَ وَالقُرآنَ جاءا

بِما يُشقي حَياةَ المُسلِمينا

You claimed religion and Qur’an came

To make the lives of Muslims miserable

زَعَمتَ مُحَمَّداً لَم يُؤتَ رُشداً

وَلَم يَسلُك سَبيلَ المُصلِحينا

You claimed that Muhammad was not guided

Nor took the path of the reformers

فَلَيتَكَ كُنتَهُ لِتَسُنَّ شَرعاً

يُبَلِّغُنا مَكانَ السابِقينا

If only you followed him to enact a law

That takes us to the place of the foremost

رُوَيدَكَ أَيُّها الجَبّارُ فينا

فَبِئسَ الحُكمُ حُكمُ القاسِطينا

Slow down, you tyrant, do not scorn us

For the rule of the unjust is miserable

وَهَبنا أُمَّةً في الجَهلِ غَرقى

وَشَعباً في مَهانَتِهِ دَفينا

You left us a nation drowning in ignorance

And a people buried in their humiliation

أَدينُ اللَهِ يَأمُرُنا بِجَهلٍ

وَيوجِبُ أَن نَذِلَّ وَنَستَكينا

God's religion, you claimed, orders ignorance

And obligates us to disgrace and submission

سَلِ الأَحياءَ وَالمَوتى جَميعاً

أَكُنّا أُمَّةً مُستَضعَفينا

Ask the living and the dead together

Were we a subjugated nation?

لَيالِيَ يَبعَثُ الإِسلامُ مِنّا

عَزائِمَ تُخضِعُ المُتَغَطرِسينا

Nights make Islam rise in us

With resolves that subjugate the arrogant

نَثُلُّ عُروشَ جَبّارينَ غُلباً

وَنَجتَثُّ المَمالِكَ فاتِحينا

We destroy the thrones of tyrants by force

And uproot the conquering kingdoms

وَقائِعُ تَرجُفُ الدُوَلاتُ مِنها

وَيَذكُرُها القَياصِرُ صاغِرينا

Events from which states tremble

And emperors are humbled remembering them

تَرَكنا الدَهرَ يَنتَقِضُ اِنتِقاضاً

وَغادَرنا الخَلائِقَ ذاهِلينا

We left time crumbling away crumbling

And creation oblivious of us

بِبَأسٍ لا كِفاءَ لَهُ وَعِلمٍ

جَلا الغَمَراتِ وَاِكتَسَحَ الدُجونا

With irresistible might and knowledge

Sweeping the depths and overflowing them

لَيالِيَ ظَلَّل الأَقوامَ جَهلٌ

أَضَلَّهُمُ فَظَلّوا حائِرينا

Nights ignorance shadowed people

Misguiding them to wander astray

سَننَّا الرُشدَ لِلغاوينَ طُرّاً

وَلَولا الدينُ لَم نَكُ راشِدينا

We guided the misguided with righteousness

And without religion we would not be guided

وَلَولا مَعشَرٌ خَذَلوهُ مِنّا

لَكُنّا السابقينَ الأَوَّلينا

If not for a group who abandoned it

We would be the earliest of the foremost

أَتَزعُمُ ما جَنى الجُهَلاءُ ديناً

وَتَأخُذُنا بِذَنبِ الجاهِلينا

Do you claim what the ignorant reaped is religion?

And blame us for the sins of the ignorant?

رُوَيدَكَ أَيُّها الجَبّارُ فينا

فَما أَنصَفتَنا دُنيا وَدينا

Slow down, you tyrant, do not scorn us

You did not treat us justly in life or religion