لَعَمري لَستُ أَترُكُ آلَ قَومي

وَأَرحَلُ عَن فَنائي أَو أَسيرُ

By my life! I shall not abandon my people

Nor depart from my home or journey away

بِهِم ذُلّي إِذا ما كُنتُ فيهِم

عَلى رَغمِ العِدى شَرَفٌ خَطيرُ

I stay with them in their humiliation

For with the enemy, honor comes at a price

أَأَنزِلُ بَينَهُم إِن كانَ يُسرٌ

وَأَرحَلُ إِن أَلَمَّ بِهِم عَسيرُ

Shall I descend among them when life is easy

And depart when hardship has come their way?

وَأَترُكُ مَعشَري وَهُمُ أُناسٌ

لَهُم طَولٌ عَلى الدُنيا يَدورُ

Shall I leave my people, they who are folk

With a long history that still lives on?

أَلَم تَسمَع أَسِنَّتَهُم لَها في

تَراقِيَكُم وَأَضلُعِكُم صَريرُ

Do you not hear their tongues that still

Sting you with venom through ribs and bone?

فَكُفَّ الكَفَّ عَن قَومي وَذَرهُم

فَسَوفَ يَرى فِعالَهُمُ الضَريرُ

Stop your meddling with my people and leave them be

For the blind shall see the justice they have sown