أَرى أُمَّنا وَالحَمدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّنا

يَهُبُّ عَلَينا بِالحَوادِثِ مورُها

I see our mother, and praise be to Allah our Lord

Blowing at us with the winds of her events

فَما زيدَ مِنها قَبضَةَ الكَفِّ زَبدُها

وَلا عَمِرَت فيها لِخَيرٍ عُمورُها

So whatever she increased in the palm's grasp is its foam

And her dwellings were not inhabited for good in it

وَلَم تَدرِ يَوماً ضَأنُها وَمَعيزُها

بِما اِحتَلَفَت آسادُها وَنُمورُها

And its sheep and goats never knew

What its lions and leopards disputed

تَشَتَّتَ فيها رَأيُنا وَتَوَفَقَّت

عَلى ريبَةٍ أَمواهُها وَخُمورُها

Our opinion in it was scattered, and its

Intoxicants and wines agreed

تَوامَرُ فيما لا يَحِلُّ نُفوسُنا

بِتَيهاءَ لا تُخفى عَلَينا أُمورُها

On suspicion, we cannot bear in our souls

In obscenity, its affairs are not hidden from us