يا أَيُّها الناسُ إِنَّ اللَهَ يَأمُرُكُم
أَلّا تَكونوا لِأَهلِ الظُلمِ أَعوانا
O people, God commands you
not to be supporters of the people of oppression.
يا قَومُ إِلّا تُطيعوا اللَهَ أَمطَرَكُم
رِجزاً وَجَلَّلَكُم خِزياً وَخُسرانا
O my people, if you do not obey God, He will rain upon you
a scourge, and envelop you in shame and ruin.
يا قَومِ لا تَنصُروا مَن لَيسَ يَنصُرُهُ
وَلا تَكونوا لِمَن عاداهُ إِخوانا
O my people, do not support one whom He does not support,
nor be brothers to one who opposes Him.
يَلقى العِدى طاعَةً مِنكُم وَمَسكَنَةً
إِذا اِستَبَدّوا وَيَلقى اللَهُ عِصيانا
The enemy receives obedience and servile submission from you
when they act as tyrants—while God receives disobedience.
إِنّي أَخافُ عَلَيكُم حادِثاً جَلَلاً
لا تَملِكونَ لَهُ رَدّاً إِذا حانا
I fear for you a momentous calamity
that you will have no power to repel when it arrives.
أَرى لَكُم في بَريدِ الدَهرِ مَألَكَةً
يَموجُ فيها الدَمُ المَسفوحُ عُنوانا
I see for you, in Time’s post, a message
within which the blood already shed surges as its heading.
ما عُذرُ قَومٍ تَمادوا في عَمايَتِهِم
لَم يَألُهُم رَبُّهُم نُصحاً وَتِبيانا
What excuse have a people who persist in their blindness,
when their Lord has spared no counsel or clear explanation for them?
لا يَأمُرونَ بِغَيرِ الظُلمِ أَنفُسَهُم
وَاللَهُ يَأمُرُهُم عَدلاً وَإِحسانا
They enjoin upon themselves nothing but oppression,
while God enjoins justice and goodness upon them.
أَتصِدفونَ عَنِ الآياتِ ساطِعَةً
تَجلو العَمى وَتُضيءُ القَلبَ إيمانا
Do you turn away from the signs, radiant,
that dispel blindness and illumine the heart with faith?
مِلتُم عَنِ النورِ يَمحو كُلَّ داجِيَةٍ
وَاِنصاعَ رائِدُكُم في الأَرضِ حَيرانا
You have turned from the light that effaces every darkness,
and your guide wanders the earth bewildered.
لَمّا ذَهَبتُم سَواماً لا رُعاةَ لَها
سالَت عَلَيكُم فِجاجُ الأَرضِ ذُؤبانا
When you went off like grazing cattle with no shepherds,
the earth’s broad passes poured wolves upon you.
تَنازَعَتكُم أَكُّفُ الطامِعينَ بِها
فَأَصبَحَ الجَمعُ أَسراباً وَقُطعانا
Hands coveting the land fought over you,
until the united whole became scattered flocks and herds.
هَل تَملِكونَ مِنَ الدُنيا لَكُم وَطَناً
أَم تَعرِفونَ بِها عِزّاً وَسُلطانا
Do you possess anywhere in this world a homeland of your own,
or know within it any dignity or sovereignty?
اليَومَ يَبكي عَلى الإِسلامِ شاعِرُهُ
وَيَملَأُ الدَهرَ إِعوالاً وَإرنانا
Today Islam’s poet weeps for Islam
and fills the age with wailing and resonant lament.
ضَجَّ الكِتابُ وَضَجَّ البَيتُ مِن أَسَفٍ
وَباتَ فيكم رَسولُ اللَهِ غَضبانا
The Book cried out, and the Sacred House cried out in grief,
while God’s Messenger spent the night among you in anger.
يا أُمَّةَ النيلِ هُبّي اليَومَ وَاِنطَلِقي
أَما تَرَينَ حِمى الإِسلامِ قَد هانا
O nation of the Nile, rise today and surge forth!
Do you not see that Islam’s sanctuary has been brought low?
رِدي الحَياةَ وَعُبّي في مَشارِعِها
إِنّي أَرى النيلَ ذا الأَنهارِ ظَمآنا
Restore life, and drink deep at its watering places;
I see the Nile, rich in rivers, thirsty.
خُذي نَصيبَكِ مِن عِزٍّ وَمِن شَرَفٍ
وَوَدِّعي مِن حَياةِ الذُلِّ ما كانا
Take your share of might and honor,
and bid farewell to all that was a life of humiliation.
اللَهُ أَكبَرُ إِنَّ الناسَ قَد دَلَفوا
فَاِستَرسِلي إِثرَهُم شيباً وَشُبّانا
God is greatest! The people have already marched forward;
then follow in their wake, old and young alike.
كُلٌّ يَجِدُّ وَراءَ الحَقِّ يَطلُبُهُ
مِن غاصِبٍ سامَهُ خَسفاً وَإِهوانا
Each strives after the right, seeking it
from a usurper who dealt him abasement and humiliation.
عَصرٌ جَديدٌ وَدُنيا لا نُساءُ بِها
وَلا نَذوقُ الَّذي ذُقنا بِدُنيانا
A new age, and a world in which we shall not be wronged,
nor taste what we tasted in the world we knew.
Sol 5.6