على ذكرها فليعرفِ الحقَّ جاهلُهْ

ويُؤمنْ بأنّ البغيَ شتَّى غَوائلُهْ

In his remembrance, let the ignorant know the truth,

And believe that rebellion's ways are manifold.

هِيَ الغزوةُ الكبرى هَوى الشّركُ إذ رمت

جَحافِلُها العظمى وولّت جَحافلُهْ

It was the Greatest Battle when polytheism attacked,

And its great armies charged while its armies retreated.

وأصبح دينُ اللهِ قد قام رُكنُهُ

فَأقصرَ من أعدائهِ مَن يُطاوله

And God's religion now stands firm,

So whoever strives against it, his striving is short.

بَنَتْهُ سيوفُ اللهِ بالعزمِ إنّه

لأصلبُ من صُمِّ الجلاميدِ سائله

God's swords have built it with resolve,

For it is firmer than the rocks of statues.

تَكِلُّ قُوى الجبّارِ عما تُقيمه

عليه يَدُ الباني وتنبو مَعاوِله

The forces of the tyrant fail to undo

What the Builder's hand has established and its tools.

أهاب رسولُ اللهِ بالجندِ أقدِموا

ولا ترهبوا الطاغوتَ فاللّهُ خاذله

God's Messenger urged the troops, "Advance!

And fear not the tyrant, for God has forsaken him."

أما تنظرون الأرض كيف أظلَّها

من الشّركِ دينٌ أهلك النّاسَ باطله

Do you not see the land, how polytheism

Has covered it with a religion that destroyed people in vain?

خُذوه ببأسٍ لا تطيشُ سهامُه

فأنتم مَناياهُ وهَذي مقاتله

Take it with might, let not its arrows go astray,

For you are its purpose, and this is its battlefield.

علينا الهُدَى إمّا بآياتِ ربّنا

وإمّا بحدِّ السّيفِ لا خابَ حامله

We have the guidance, either through our Lord's signs,

Or through the sword's edge that never fails its wielder.

إذا أنكر القومُ البراهينَ أخضعت

براهينُه أعناقَهم ودلائله

When people reject proofs, proofs

Subdue their necks, and their evidence.

مضى البأسُ بَدْرِيَّ المشاهدِ تَرتمِي

أعاصيرهُ ناراً وتَغلِي مراجله

War passed in Badr, its storms surging,

Its seas boiling and its cauldrons aflame.

وضَجَّ رسولُ الله يدعو إلهه

فيا لكَ من جندٍ طوى الجوَّ جافله

And God's Messenger called out to his God,

What an army that covered the horizon in squadrons!

تَنّزلَ يُزجي النصرَ تنسابُ من عَلٍ

شآبيبُه نوراً وينهلُّ وابله

Victory descends from the Most High, shedding

Its rains of light, pouring its torrents.

أحيزومُ أقدِمْ إنه الجِدُّ لن يرى

سواه عدوٌّ كاذبُ البأسِ هازله

Ahayzum, advance, for this is serious, no enemy

Will see aught but lies in pretending to be brave.

هو الله يحمي دينَه ويُعزُّه

فمن ذا يناويه ومن ذا يُصاوله

God protects His religion and gives it glory,

So who dares oppose Him? Who contends with Him?

تمزّقَ جيشُ الكفر وانحلَّ عقدُه

فخابت أمانيه وأعيت وسائله

The army of disbelief was torn apart and its pact undone.

Its hopes were foiled and its means exhausted.

وما برسولِ الله إذ ناله الأذى

سوى ما ارتضت أخلاقُهُ وشمائله

The Messenger faced harm, but he had only

What his morals had chosen, and his qualities.

نبيٌّ يُحبُّ الله حُبَّ مجاهدٍ

يرى دَمهُ من حقّه فهو باذله

A prophet whom God loves with a warrior's love,

Who sees shedding his blood as his right, so he sacrifices it.

يُعظّمهُ في نفسِهِ ويُطيعُهُ

وما يقضِ من أمرٍ له فهو قابله

He reveres and obeys Him in his soul,

And whatever He decrees, he accepts it.

كذلك كان المسلمونَ الأُلى مضَوْا

فيا لكَ عصراً يبعثُ الحزنَ زائله

Thus were the foremost Muslims, they passed away.

What an age that makes grief depart!

صَدفنا عن المُثلى فأصبحَ أمرُنا

إلى غيرنا نَهذِي به وهو شاغله

We have strayed from the ideal, so our affairs

Have gone to others, though the affair is theirs.

يُجالِدُ من يَبغِي الحياةَ عدوَّه

فيا لعدوٍّ لم يَجد من يُجادله

Whoever seeks life contends against his enemy,

What an enemy who finds none to contend with him!

بنا من عوادِي الدّهرِ كلُّ مُسلَّطٍ

مَكائدُه مبثوثةٌ وحبائله

Every tyrant allowed power over us

Has scattered plots and snares.

قضينا المدى ما تستقيمُ أمورنا

وهل يستقيم الأمرُ عاليه سافله

We spent our days, but our affairs are not right,

Can an affair be right if its high and low are inverted?

عَجِبتُ لقومي عُطّلَ الدّينُ بينهم

وجُنُّوا به والجهلُ شتَّى منازله

I wonder at my people whose religion has been suspended among them

And they have wronged it, while ignorance resides in its every abode.

يُحبّونه حُبَّ الذي ضلَّ رأيُه

فَقاطعهُ منهم سواء وواصله

They love it with the love of one whose opinion is misguided,

So their connection to it is equal, and their separation from it.

صلاةٌ وصَومٌ يَركضُ الشرُّ فيهما

حَثيثاً تَهزُّ المشرقَيْنِ صَواهِله

Prayer and fasting, but evil runs rampant through them,

Shaking the two horizons with its slipping calamities.

وكيف يقومُ الدّينُ ما بين أمّةٍ

إذا عُطِّلتْ آدابُه وفضائله

How can religion stand if courtesy and virtue

Are suspended in a community that wrongs it?

سلامٌ علينا يوم يصدقُ بأسُنا

فيمضِي بنا في كلّ أمرٍ نُحاوله

Peace be upon us the day our might proves true,

And takes us through whatever matter we attempt.

ويومَ تكونُ الأرض تحت لوائِنا

فليس عليها من لواءٍ يُماثله

And the day the earth is under our banner,

None can match it or equal it.

أنمشي بِطاءً والخطوبُ تَنوبُنا

سِراعاً وعادِي الشرِّ ينقضُّ عاجله

We walk slowly while disasters befall us swiftly,

And the common evil breaks its fetters and hastens.

ألا همّةٌ بدريّةٌ تكشفُ الأذى

وتشفِي من الهمِّ الذي اهتاجَ داخله

Come now, a Badrian zeal that removes harm

And alleviates the anguish that shakes one's insides.

ألا أمةٌ تنهَى النفوسَ عن الهوى

وتُصْغِي إلى القولِ الذي أنا قائله

Come now, a community that restrains souls from passion

And listens to the words I am saying.

ألا دولةٌ للحقِّ تسلك نهجه

وتمشِي على آثارهِ ما تُزايله

Come now, a state for the truth that follows its path

And walks upon its traces, never diverging from it.

إذا نحن لم نَرشدْ ولم نتبعِ الهُدَى

فلا تنكروا يا قومُ ما الله فاعله

If we do not provide guidance or follow the guidance,

Then do not reject, my people, what God will do.