إِذا سَحَقَت أَرضَنا القُنبُلَه

كَما يَسحَقُ الحَجَرُ الخَردَلَه

If our land is crushed by the bomb

If the bomb crushes our land,

As the stone crushes the mustard seed

Just as a stone crushes a mustard seed,

وَقَوَّضَ مَفعولَها الراسِياتِ

فَصارَت غُباراً لَهُ جَلجَلَه

And its impact demolishes the towering structures

And its force undermines the anchored mountains,

Turning them into swirling dust

Turning them into dust with a resounding roar,

وَدَبَّ الفَنا في ذَواتِ الجَناحِ

وَغَلغَلَ في النَبتِ فَاِستَأصَلَه

And decay spreads in winged creatures

And annihilation creeps into the winged creatures,

And churns in the vegetation, uprooting it

And penetrates the vegetation, rooting it out,

وَفي الماشِياتِ وَفي الزاحِفا

تِ عَلَيها إِلى آخِرِ السِلسِلَه

And in the animals and the reptiles

And into the walking beasts and the crawling things

In succession to the end of the chain

upon the earth, to the very end of the chain,

فَلا زَهرَ يَأرُجُ في رَوضَةٍ

وَلا ديكَ يَصدَحُ في مَزبَلَه

So no flower gives off fragrance in a garden

So no flower yields fragrance in a garden,

And no rooster crows in a dunghill

And no rooster calls out from a dunghill,

وَضاعَ الزَمانُ وَمِقياسُهُ

وَأَشبَهَ آخِرُهُ أَوَّلَه

And time is lost and its measure

And time is lost, along with its measure,

And its end resembles its beginning

Its end resembling its beginning,

وَلَم يَبقَ حَيٌّ عَلى سَطحِها

وَأَصبَحَ عِزريلُ لا شُغلَ لَه

And no living thing remains on its surface

And no living thing remains upon its surface,

And Azrael has nothing to occupy him

And Azrael is left with no work to do,

فَذَلِكَ خَطبٌ يَهولُ النُفوسَ

تُصَوِّرُهُ قَبلَ أَن تَحمِلَه

So this is news that horrifies souls

That is a calamity that strikes terror in souls,

Imagining it before bearing it

Imagining it before they must bear it,

وَلَكِنَّ أَمراً يَعزي الجَميعَ

إِذا سَحَقَت أَرضَنا القُنبُلَه

But it's a matter that consoles everyone

Yet one matter offers consolation to all,

If our land is crushed by the bomb

If the bomb indeed crushes our land:

فَلَن يُدَعَ المَوتُ حَيّاً يَلو

مُ سِواهُ عَلى هَذِهِ المَقتَلَه

For death will not be left alive

That death will not leave a living soul behind

Except it over this killing field

to blame another for this massacre.