صاحَت الضِفضَعُ لَمّا شاهَدَت

حَولَها في الماءِ أَظلالَ النُجوم

The frogs croaked when they saw

The frog cried out when she beheld

Reflections of stars in the water around them

Around her in the water, the shadows of the stars.

يا رِفاقي يا جُنودي اِحتَشِدوا

عَبَرَ الأَعداءُ في اللَيلِ التُخوم

"O my friends, o my soldiers, gather

"O my comrades, O my soldiers, rally together!

The enemies have crossed our borders in the night"

The enemies have crossed the frontiers in the night.

فَاِطرُدوهُم وَاِطرُدوا اللَيلَ مَعاً

إِنَّهُ مِثلَهُمُ باغٍ أَثيم

"Repel them and banish the night as well

Drive them out, and drive away the night as well,

For it is like them, a vicious despoiler"

For it is, like them, a sinful aggressor."

زَعقَةٌ سارَ صَداها في الدُجى

فَإِذا الشَطُّ شُخوصٌ وَحُسوم

A shriek echoed in the darkness

A shrill cry whose echo traveled through the darkness,

And the riverbank bushes and thorns shook

Until the bank became a mass of figures and swords.

في أَديمِ الماءِ مِن أَصواتِها

رَعدَةُ الحُمّى وَفي اللَيلِ وُجوم

In the water's surface, from their voices

Upon the surface of the water, rising from their voices,

Were thunderous fever and gloom in the night

Was the trembling of fever, while the night stood in gloom.

مَزَّقَ الفَجرُ جَلابيبَ الدُجى

وَمَحا مِن صَفحَةِ الأَرضِ الرُسوم

Dawn tore the veils of darkness

Dawn tore apart the cloaks of darkness,

And erased the symbols from the face of the earth

And wiped the traces from the face of the earth.

فَمَشَت في سِربِها مُختالَةً

كَمَليكٍ ظافِرٍ بَينَ قُروم

Then she walked among her troop proudly

So she walked among her swarm, strutting with vanity,

Like a victorious king among his warriors

Like a victorious king among mighty chiefs.

ثُمَّ قالَت لَكُمُ البُشرى وَلي

قَد نَجَونا الآنَ مِن كَيدٍ عَظيم

Then she said, "I bring you good news

Then she said: "Good tidings to you and to me,

We are now safe from a monumental scheme

We have now escaped a great and treacherous plot.

نَحنُ لَو لَم نَقهُرِ الشُهبَ الَّتي

هاجَمَتنا لِأَذاقَتنا الحُتوم

If we did not defeat the meteors

For had we not vanquished the shooting stars that

That attacked us, they would have made us taste annihilation

Attacked us, they would have made us taste our doom,

وَأَقامَت بَعدَنا مِن أَرضِنا

في نَعيمٍ لَم تَجِدهُ في الغُيوم

And they would have stayed, after us, in our land

And they would have dwelt in our land after us,

Enjoying pleasures they never found in the clouds

In a bliss they never found within the clouds.

أَيُّها التاريخُ سَجِّل أَنَّنا

أُمَّةٌ قَد غَلَبَت حَتّى النُجوم

O history, record that we

O History! Record that we

Are a nation that overpowered even the stars

Are a nation that has conquered even the stars."