دَعونا نَبتدِر وِردَ الحِمامِ
لِيُطفئَ بَردُه حَرَّ الأَوامِ
Let us hasten to the rose gardens
So their coolness may quench the heat of sorrows
دَعونا إِنّ لِلأَوطانِ حَقاً
تُضيَّعُ دُونه مُهَجُ الكِرامِ
Let us hasten - our homelands have rights
Without which the noble spirit perishes
أَنَخذِلُها وَنَحنُ لَها حُماةٌ
فَمَن عَنها يُناضِلُ أَو يُحامي
Shall we abandon them when we are their protectors?
Who else will defend them or guard them?
أَنُسلِمُها إِلى الأَعداءِ طَوعاً
فَتِلكَ سَجِيَّةُ القَومِ الطغام
Shall we surrender them to the enemies willingly?
That is the way of the tyrannical people
أَيَبغي الإِنكليزُ لَها اِستلاباً
ولمّا تَختضِب بِدَمٍ سِجامِ
Do the British wish to conquer them?
While their soil is still wet with blood
وَيَمشِ أَخو الوَغى مِنّا وَمِنهُم
عَلى جُثَثٍ مُطرَّحةٍ وَهامِ
And the specter of discord walks among us and them
Over scattered corpses lying in wait
أَنتركُها بِأَيدي القَومِ نَهباً
وَفي هَذي الكنانةِ سَهمُ رامِ
Shall we leave them prey in the hands of the people
While in this weakness lies a piercing arrow?
لَقَد ظَنّ العُداةُ بِنا ظُنوناً
كَواذبَ مثلَ أَحلامِ النِيامِ
The enemies thought of us with suspicion
Like the illusions of dreamers’ sleep
رَأونا دُونَهُم عَدداً فَنادوا
عَلَينا بِالنزالِ وَبِالصِدامِ
They saw us fewer in number so they called out
To battle us and clash with us
وَزجّوها فَوارِسَ ضاق عَنها
فَضاءُ الأَرض أَعينُها دَوامِ
And they drove their steeds until the land
Became too narrow, though its expanse is endless
لَقيناهم بِآسادٍ جِياعٍ
تَرى لَحم العِدى أَشهى طَعامِ
We met them with ravenous lions
Who find enemy flesh the sweetest food
لعمر أَبيك ما ضعفت قُوانا
فَنجنحَ صاغِرينَ إِلى السَلامِ
By your father’s life, our strength did not fail
For us to stoop pleading for peace
مَعاذَ اللَه مِن خَوَرٍ وَضعفٍ
وَمِن عابٍ نُقارفه وَذامِ
God forbid us from disgrace and weakness
And from reproach that we adopt
وَلا وَاللَه نَرضى الخسفَ دِيناً
كَدأبِ المُستَذَلِّ المُستَضامِ
No, by God, we do not accept humiliation as religion
Like the way of the subservient and oppressed
إِذا حكم العِدى جَنَفاً عَلينا
فَأَعدل مِنهُمُ حكمُ الحُسامِ
If the enemy judges unjustly against us
The blade of the sword is more just than them
هَبُونا كَالَّذي زَعموا ضِعافاً
أَيأبى نَصرَنا رَبُّ الأَنامِ
They provoked us as though we were weak
Does the Lord of man deny us victory?
أَيخذِلُنا وَنحنُ لَهُ نُصلِّي
جَميعاً مِن قُعودٍ أَو قِيامِ
Would He abandon us when we pray to Him
Together sitting or standing?
فَلا يَأسٌ إِذا ما الحَرب طالَت
مِن النَصرِ المُرجّى في الختامِ
So there is no despair though war is prolonged
Of the hoped-for triumph in the end
ولَسنا نَترك الهَيجاءَ يَوماً
بِلا نارٍ تَشُبُّ وَلا ضِرامِ
And we will not one day leave the fight
Without a fire flaming and burning
فَإِمّا العَيشُ في ظِلِّ المَعالي
وَإِمّا المَوتُ في ظلّ القَتامِ
Either we live in the shadow of glory
Or we die in the shadow of darkness
هِيَ الأَوطان إِن ضاعَت رَضينا
مِن الآمال بِالمَوت الزُؤامِ
The homelands - if lost we would accept
Death from sorrows as solace
فَهل جاءَ البويرَ حَديثُ قَومي
وَما قَومي بشيءٍ في الخِصامِ
Has the message of my people reached the British?
My people have no dispute or quarrel
لنعم القَومُ ما أَوفوا بَعَهدٍ
لِأَوطانٍ شَقِينَ وَلا ذِمامِ
O excellent people true to every covenant
To troubled homelands, no blame on them
وَلا اِعتصموا بحبل الجِدّ يَوماً
وَلا لاذوا بِأَكناف الوئامِ
Never clinging to the rope of righteousness
Or seeking refuge in bonds of harmony
فوا أَسفي عَلى وَطَن كَريمٍ
غَدا ما بَيننا غَرَضَ السِهامِ
Alas for a generous homeland
That has become between us the target of arrows
وَنَحنُ على توجّعه سُكوتٌ
كَأَنّا بَعضُ سكان الرجام
While we face its torment in silence
As if we are some inhabitants of graves
رَعى اللَه البوير بِحَيث كانوا
وَجاد دِيارهم صَوبُ الغَمامِ
May God protect the British wherever they are
And may their lands be far in the clouds
