نُجَدِّدُ ذِكرى عَهدِكُم وَنُعيدُ

وَنُدني خَيالَ الأَمسِ وَهوَ بَعيدُ

We renew the memory of your covenant and repeat it

And bring near the image of yesterday, though distant

وَلِلناسِ في الماضي بَصائِرُ يَهتَدي

عَلَيهِنَّ غاوٍ أَو يَسيرُ رَشيدُ

And people have insights in the past to be guided

Upon them the lost or the rightly guided travel

إِذا المَيتُ لَم يَكرُم بِأَرضٍ ثَناؤُهُ

تَحَيَّرَ فيها الحَيُّ كَيفَ يَسودُ

When the dead is not honored in a land, his eulogy

Perplexed in it the living, how can he prevail

وَنَحنُ قُضاةُ الحَقِّ نَرعى قَديمَهُ

وَإِن لَم يَفُتنا في الحُقوقِ جَديدُ

And we are the judges of truth, we tend its ancient ways

If we miss not in rights the new

وَنَعلَمُ أَنّا في البِناءِ دَعائِمٌ

وَأَنتُم أَساسٌ في البِناءِ وَطيدُ

And we know we are in building pillars

While you are a foundation in building, firm

فَريدُ ضَحايانا كَثيرٌ وَإِنَّما

مَجالُ الضَحايا أَنتَ فيهِ فَريدُ

Unique are our sacrifices many, but

The field of sacrifice, you in it are unique

فَما خَلفَ ما كابَدتَ في الحَقِّ غايَةٌ

وَلا فَوقَ ما قاسَيتَ فيهِ مَزيدُ

So what's beyond what you endured in truth is no end

Nor above what you suffered in it, any addition

تَغَرَّبتَ عَشراً أَنتَ فيهنَّ بائِسٌ

وَأَنتَ بِآفاقِ البِلادِ شَريدُ

You were estranged for ten, in them miserable

While across the horizons, exiled

تَجوعُ بِبُلدانٍ وَتَعرى بِغَيرِها

وَتَرزَحُ تَحتَ الداءِ وَهوَ عَتيدُ

You hunger in countries, and naked in others

And you moan under affliction, while it is coming

أَلا في سَبيلِ اللَهِ وَالحَقِّ طارِفٌ

مِنَ المالِ لَم تَبخَل بِهِ وَتَليدُ

Lo! in God's path and truth, flowing

Of wealth, you did not begrudge it and hoard

وَجودُكَ بَعدَ المالِ بِالنَفسِ صابِراً

إِذا جَزعَ المَحضورُ وَهوَ يَجودُ

Your generosity beyond wealth, with self patient

When the present despaired, though he lavished

فَلا زِلتَ تِمثالاً مِنَ الحَقِّ خالِصاً

عَلى سِرِّهِ نَبني العُلا وَنَشيدُ

So you remained a statue of pure truth

On its secret we build glory and sing poems

يُعلِمُ نَشءَ الحَيِّ كَيفَ هَوى الحِمى

وَكَيفَ يُحامي دونَهُ وَيَذودُ

Teaching the living's progeny how passions were sought

And how to defend it and fortify