لا نِبغيضُ الروسَ لَكِن لا نُحِبُّهُمُ

فَحَربُنا حَربُ أَقرانٍ لِأَقرانِ

We bear the Russians no ill will, yet we do not love them,

We bear no hate for the Russ, though we love them not,

For ours is a war of peers against peers.

For our war is a war of equals against equals.

وَلا الفَرنسيسَ ما هُمَ بِالعُداةِ لَنا

لَكِنَّهُم غَيرُ أَصحابٍ وَإِخوانِ

Nor are the French truly hostile to us,

Nor the French; they are not true foes to us,

But they are not comrades or brothers.

Though neither are they friends nor brethren.

إِنّا نُبادِلُهُم وَالنَقعُ مُنسَدِلٌ

طَعناً بِطَعنٍ وَنيراناً بِنيرانِ

We engage with them blow for blow,

We exchange with them, while the battle-dust hangs low,

Stab for stab, fire for fire.

Thrust for thrust and fire for fire.

وَذي بَيارِقُنا في الفَوجِ خافِقَةٌ

وَجَيشُنا ظافِرٌ في كُلِّ مَيدانِ

Our proud banners wave among the regiments,

Here are our banners fluttering in the regiment,

And our victorious army on every battlefield.

And our army stands victorious in every field.

قُلوبَنا لَيسَ فيها غَيرُ موجِدَةٍ

ذو الشَيبِ فيها وَفَحمُ الشَزِ سِيّانِ

Our hearts contain naught but the glowing embers

Our hearts hold nothing but a single wrath,

Of elders and the live coals of youth alike.

Wherein the grey-haired elder and the dark-haired youth are one.

نَهوى وَنَحنُ جُموعٌ لا عِدادَ لَها

كَواحِدٍ وَكَذا نُقلى كَإِنسانِ

As a mass beyond count we share one passion,

We love as one, though we are countless multitudes,

And so we are martyred as one, as men.

And as one man, we loathe with a single soul.

عَدُوُّنا واحِدٌ الكُلُّ يَعرِفُهُ

ذاكَ الحَسودُ الخَبيثُ الماكِرُ الشاني

Our sole enemy, whom all recognize,

Our enemy is but one; he is known to all,

Is that envious wicked schemer who does ill.

That envious, malicious, cunning slanderer.

تَرُدُّنا عَنهُ أَمواجٌ يَلوذُ بِها

سَميكَةٌ كَالنَجيعِ اليابِسِ القَني

Against him surging breakers are our haven

Waves separate us from him, in which he takes refuge,

Of refuge, massive as the barren, scorching dunes.

Thick as dried gore, dark and deep.

أَرى بِهِ وَهوَ الطوفانِ مُختَبِئٌ

طوفانَ غَيظٍ تَوارى خَلفَ طوفانِ

I see him taking cover amid the deluge,

I see him there, hiding within the deluge,

A flood of wrath concealed behind a flood.

A flood of rage concealed behind a flood of water.

قَد أَصبَحَ الماءُ يَحميهِ وَيَمنَعُهُ

الوَيلُ لِلماءِ مِنّا إِنَّهُ جانِ

The water now preserves and protects him -

The water has come to protect and defend him—

Woe to the water because of us, for it has sided with the foe!

Woe be to the water from us, for it shares the crime!

قِفوا أَمامَ القَضاءِ العَدلِ كُلُّكُمُ

وَليَحلِفَنَّ يَميناً كُلُّ أَلماني

Stand, all of you, before the seat of justice

Stand, all of you, before the bar of just decree,

And solemnly swear a harsh unbending oath,

And let every German swear a solemn oath.

غَليظَةً كَالحَديدِ الصَلبِ صارِمَةً

كَالمَوتِ تَبَقّى لِأَدهارٍ وَأَزمانِ

Rigid as steel, inexorable as death,

An oath unyielding as solid steel, severe,

To endure for ages and aeons of time:

Enduring like death through ages and eras.

وَأَن نَبغُضَ البُغضَ لا تَبلى مَرائِرُهُ

وَلا يُقاسُ وَلا يُحصى بِميزانِ

That we will harbor a hatred that does not wane,

To hate with a hatred whose fibers never fray,

Immeasurable, beyond reckoning,

A hate unmeasured, uncountable by any scale.

وَأَن نُرَدِّدَهُ في كُلِّ ناحِيَةٍ

وَأَن نُكَرِّرَهُ تَكريرَ أَلحانِ

That we will voice it everywhere,

To echo it in every quarter and corner,

Repeat it like a refrain,

And repeat it as one repeats a chanting hymn.

وَأَن نُعَلِّمَ مِنّا كُلَّ ذي كَبِدٍ

أَن يَبغُضَ القَومَ في سِرٍّ وَإِعلانِ

And teach it to every heart and mind

To teach every living soul among us,

To hate these people both secretly and openly,

To hate that people in secret and in open view.

بُغضاً إِلى نَسلِنا بِالإِرثِ مُنتَقِلاً

إِلى بَينِهِم وَمِن جيلٍ إِلى ثانِ

A hatred handed down to our descendants

A hatred passed down as an heirloom to our kin,

And from one generation to the next.

Moving among them from one generation to the next.

عَدُوُّنا واحِدٌ الكُلُّ يَعرِفُهُ

ذاكَ الحَسودُ الخَبيثُ الماكِرُ الشاني

Our sole enemy, whom all recognize,

Our enemy is but one; he is known to all,

Is that envious wicked schemer who does ill.

That envious, malicious, cunning slanderer.

أَلا اِسمَعوا أَيُّها الأَلمانُ وَاِعتَبِروا

فَأَنتُمُ أَهلُ أَلبابٍ وَأَذهانِ

Hark, O Germans, and understand,

Listen, O Germans, and take heed,

For you are people of intellect and wisdom:

For you are a people of intellect and mind.

في مَحفَلٍ جَلَسَ القُوّادُ كُلُّهُمُ

كَمُحكَمِ العِقدِ أَو مَرصوصِ بُنيانِ

Your commanders all convened as one,

In a council, all the commanders sat convened,

Bound fast like well-knotted rope or mortared brick.

Firm as a tightened knot or a cemented wall.

وَقامَ واحِدُهُم وَالكَأسُ في يَدِهِ

كَأَنَّها قَبَسٌ أَو عَينُ غَضبانِ

One of them rose, a cup held in his hand,

And one of them rose, a chalice in his hand,

As though it were a torch or a wrathful eye.

Blazing like a firebrand or a wrathful eye.

فَقالَ يا قَومُ هَذا سِرُّ يَومِكُمُ

أَلا اِشرَبوا إِنَّ سِرَّ اليَومَ سِرّانِ

He spoke: "O people, this is the secret of your day.

He said: 'O people, this is the secret of your day,

Come, drink! for the secret of the day is two secrets."

Drink deep, for the day's secret is twofold.'

مَقالَةُ فَعَلَت في الجَمعِ فِعلَتَها

فَأَصبَحوا وَكَأَنَّ الواحِدَ اِثنانِ

His utterance, spoken to the assembly, had its effect,

A speech that worked its magic on the crowd,

And they became as though they were one man, not two.

Until they merged, as if one spirit became two.

ما ضَربَةُ السَيفِ مِن ذي مُرَّةٍ بَطَلٍ

وَمُستَطيرُ اللَظى مِن قَلبِ صَوّانِ

No striking sword, no leaping spark of flame,

Neither the sword-stroke of a mighty hero,

No speeding ship, no shooting star, no diving lightning bolt,

Nor the sparks flying from a heart of flint,

وَلا السَفينَةُ في التَيّارِ جارِيَةً

وَلا الشِهابُ هَوى في إِثرِ شَيطانِ

Is swifter or more forceful than it,

Nor the ship coursing through the tide,

Emerging from his mouth like an arrow from the quiver.

Nor the meteor plunging in pursuit of a fiend,

أَمضى وَأَنفَذَ مِنها وَهيَ خارِجَةٌ

مِن فيهِ كَالسَهمِ مِن أَحشاءِ مِرنانِ

It illuminated whoever was in the cup that was raised on high

Were sharper or more piercing than those words,

By that speaker who intended and meant it.

Shot from his mouth like an arrow from a singing bow.

فَضاءَ مَن كانَ في الكَأسِ الَّتي اِرتَفَعَت

وَمَن يُريدُ وَيَعني القائِلُ العاني

O children of Britain, rally your masses

It illuminated the contents of the raised cup,

And summon mankind, human or jinn!

And revealed whom the fervent speaker meant.

بَني بَريطانيا نادوا جُموعَكُمُ

وَاِستَصرِخوا الخَلقَ مِنإِنسٍ وَمِن جانِ

Build your fortresses and ramparts with gold

O sons of Britannia, call forth your multitudes,

And hire armies of whites and blacks!

And summon the creatures of earth, both men and Jinn.

وَاِبنوا المَعاقِلَ وَالأَسوارَ مِن ذَهَبٍ

وَاِستَأجِروا الجُندَ مِن بيضٍ وَعُبدانِ

Patrol your fleets in the sea lying in wait for us,

Build your fortresses and ramparts out of gold,

Churning the waves and tracking the whales!

And hire your mercenaries, white and black.

مُروا أَساطيلَكُم في البَحرِ تَرصُدُنا

وَتَأصُدُ البَحرَ مِن مَوجٍ وَحيتانِ

By God! None of this will hinder or turn back

Order your fleets to lie in wait at sea,

A hand once outstretched in anger to smash and demolish.

Blocking the ocean against both wave and whale.

تَاللَهِ لا ذي وَلا هَذي تَرُدُّ يَداً

إِذا رَمَت دَكَّتِ البُنيانَ وَالباني

We bear the Russians no ill will, yet we do not love them,

By God, neither this nor that shall stay a hand

For ours is a war of peers against peers.

That, when it strikes, crushes the building and the builder.

لا نُبغِضُ الروسَ لَكِن لا نُحِبُّهُمُ

فَحَربُنا حَربُ أَقرانٍ لِأَقرانِ

Nor are the French truly hostile to us,

We bear no hate for the Russ, though we love them not,

But they are not comrades or brothers.

For our war is a war of equals against equals.

وَلا الفَرَنسيسَ ما هُم بِالعُداةِ لَنا

لَكِنَّهُم غَيرُ أَصحابٍ وَإِخوانِ

We engage with them blow for blow,

Nor the French; they are not true foes to us,

Stab for stab, fire for fire.

Though neither are they friends nor brethren.

إِنّا نُبادِلَهُم وَالنَقعُ مُنسَدِلٌ

طَعناً بِطَعنٍ وَنيراناً بِنيرانِ

We attack and are attacked, with hatred ever present

We exchange with them, while the battle-dust hangs low,

And every vicious, deadly, piercing weapon.

Thrust for thrust and fire for fire.

نَأتي وَيَأتونَ وَالهَيجاءَ قائِمَةٌ

بِكُلِّ ماضٍ وَفَتّاكٍ وَطَعّانِ

But what tomorrow will bring is peace

We advance and they advance, while war rages on,

Veiling this tumult, covering them with forgetfulness.

With every sharp blade, lethal weapon, and spear.

لَكِنَّما في غَدٍ يُرخي السَلامُ عَلى

هَذي الوَغى وَعَلَيهِمِ سِترَ نِسيانِ

Every hatred will be erased but hatred of you,

But tomorrow, Peace shall cast its veil

For it is safe from diminution.

Over this war, and drape them in oblivion.

وَيَمَّحي كُلُّ بُغضٍ غَيرُ بَغضِكُمُ

فَإِنَّهُ آمِنٌ مِن كُلِّ نُقصانِ

The hearts' loathing of you will never fade, even if

And all hatred shall fade away, save for hatred of you,

We and you should pass away and the transient world should vanish.

For that hate is safe from all diminish.

حِقدُ القُلوبِ عَلَيكُم لا يَزولُ وَإِن

زُلتُم وَزُلنا وَزالَ العالَمُ الفاني

Your remoteness on earth and the distance of the stars in heaven

The hatred in our hearts for you shall not cease,

Are alike, and so is hatred in free and bound souls.

Even if you perish, and we perish, and the fleeting world dissolves.

في الأَرضِ بُعدُكُمُ وَاماءُ مِثلَهُما

وَالبُغضُ في الحُرِّ مِثلُ البُغضِ في العاني

The cottage hates you, and the palace hates you,

On the earth and on the water, the measure is the same,

And every heart and mind among us.

And the hatred in the free man equals that of the captive.

الكوخُ يَبغِضُكُم وَالقَصرُ يُبغيضُكُم

وَكُلُّ ذي مُهجَةٍ مِنّا وَوُجدانِ

As a mass beyond count we share one passion,

The humble hut hates you, and the palace hates you,

And so we are martyred as one, as men.

And every one of us possessing life and feeling.

نَهوى وَنَحنُ جُموعٌ لا عِدادَ لَها

كَواحِدٍ وَكَذا نَقلى كَإِنانِ

Our sole enemy, whom all recognize,

We love as one, though we are countless multitudes,

Is that envious wicked schemer who does ill.

And as one man, we loathe with a single soul.

عَدُوُّنا واحِدٌ الكُلُّ يَعرِفُهُ

ذاكَ الحَسودُ الخَبيثُ الماكِرُ الشاني

Our enemy is but one; he is known to all,

That envious, malicious, cunning slanderer.