يا أَيُّها الشَعبُ الذَلولُ أَما كَفى
ما قالَ أَقطابُ السِياسَةِ فينا
O you downtrodden people, is it not enough
What the politicians have said about us?
بورِكتَ مِن شَعبٍ يُقادُ بِشَعرَةٍ
لَو كانَ قائِدُكَ المُطاعُ أَمينا
You are blessed with a people led by a hair
If only your obeyed leader were honest
أَخَذَتكَ ثالِثَةُ الصَواعِقِ فَاِستَفِق
أَفَما تَزالُ مُضَلَّلاً مَفتونا
The three bolts of lightning shocked you, so wake up
Are you still misguided and infatuated?
هَل أَنتَ إِذ مَضَتِ البُعوثُ مُخَبِّري
أَتُريدُ دُنيا أَم تُحاوِلُ دينا
When the prophets passed away, did you not learn
Do you want worldly life or religion?
إِنَّ الَّذينَ زَعَمتَهُم حُلَفَاءَنا
نَصَروا العِدى نَصراً عَلَيكَ مُبينا
Those whom you claimed were our allies
Supported the enemies openly against you
يَتَنازَعونَ تُراثَنا فَإِذا رَضوا
عادَ الضَجيجُ هَوادَةً وَسُكونا
They fight over our inheritance, and when content
The clamor returns calmly and quietly
أَعمَلتَ رَأيَكَ في الوَساوِسِ حِقبَةً
وَشَغَلتَ نَفسَكَ بِالمُحالِ سَنينا
You worked your opinion amidst doubts for ages
And busied yourself with the impossible for years
وَطَفِقتَ تَهذي بِالعُهودِ وَقَد أَبى
عَهدُ السِياسَةِ أَن يَكونَ مَصونا
And you started raving about covenants, yet the covenant
Of politics refused to be protected
الذِئبُ أَصدَقُ مِن أولَئِكَ مَوثِقاً
وَأَبَرُّ مِنهُم ذِمَّةً وَيَمينا
The wolf is more truthful than them in covenant
And more righteous than them in oath and honesty
اللِصُّ يَغضَبُ إِن جَعَلنا ذِكرَهُ
يَوماً بذكر زعيمِهم مقرونا
The thief gets angry if we mention him one day
With mention of their leader in the same vein
وَأَرى البَغِيَّ عَلى اِختِلافِ شُؤونِها
أَدنى إِلى شَرَفِ الخِلالِ شُؤونا
And I see the immoral one with all his different traits
Closer to the honor of morals than them
ضَجَّ الدَمُ المَسفوكُ في يَدِ عُصبَةٍ
جُنَّت بِقَتلِ الأَبرِياءِ جُنونا
The spilled blood shed by a rabble
Who were mad with killing the innocent
بِئسَت حَضارَةُ هادِمينَ رَموا بِها
شُمَّ الفَضائِلِ وَالعُلا فَهَوَينا
Ruined is the civilization of destroyers who threw it
To the winds of virtues and highness so it perished
جَعَلوا الأَذى في العالَمينَ لَها يَداً
وَالإِثمَ وَجهاً وَالفُسوقَ جَبينا
They made harm in both worlds its hand
And sin its face and immorality its forehead
وَيحَ المَعارِفِ وَالفُنونِ فَإِنَّهُم
جَعَلوا الشُرورَ مَعارِفاً وَفُنونا
They corrupted knowledge and arts, for they
Made evils into knowledge and arts
ظَنّوا الظُنونَ بِها وَأَعلَمُ أَنَّها
سَتَذوبُ في الدَمِ وَالحَديدِ يَقينا
They assumed false assumptions about it, and I know
It will melt into blood and iron for certain
