أين الشعور الحي والوجدان

بل أين أين الدين والأيمان

Where is the living conscience and passion

Rather, where, where are religion and faith

يا أمة كانت ورائدها الهدى

وسبيلها ما خطط القرآن

O nation that was guided by guidance

And its path what the Qur'an has outlined

أولت جهاد النفس أكبر همه

وقضت على ما شيد الشيطان

It gave the utmost importance to the jihad of the self

And eliminated what Satan has erected

وبنت على صرح العدالة دولة

فيها تساوى العبد والسلطان

And built on the pillars of justice a state

In which the slave and the sultan are equal

ومضت ونصر الله يقدم زحفه

لم يثنها فرس ولا رومان

And it went on and God's victory advanced its march

Undeterred by Persian or Roman

أنى اتجهت رأيت راية أحمد

خفاقة تحدو بها الشجعان

Wherever I looked I saw Ahmad's banner

Fluttering, with the brave flocking around it

وشعارهم الله أكبر كلم

دوى تهاوى ما بنى الطغيان

And their motto is God is Great, a word

That thundered and made tyranny crumble

عملوا بما أمروا لصالح دينهم

طمعا ليرضى عنهم الرحمن

They did as they were ordered for the good of their religion

Hoping for the Most Merciful to be pleased with them

كانوا بهذا الدين أفضل أمة

وأعف من عرفتهم البلدان

With this religion they were the best of nations

And the gentlest of those known by the countries

حتى إذا ابتعد الكثير سفاهة

عن دينه ذل الكثير وهانوا

Until when many were foolishly distant

From their religion, many were humiliated and disgraced

وتحكم الأشرار في أوطانهم

من بعد ما لفظتهم الأوطان

And villains took over their homelands

After their homelands had spat them out

أنا من كتاب الله أعلم أنن

لو لم نغير ما تغير شان

I know from the book of God that if

We do not change what has changed our status

ولما تحكمت اليهود بقدسن

ولما استبد بقهرنا دايان

And if the Jews had not taken over our Jerusalem

And if Dayan had not subjugated us with his tyranny

ما أحرقوا الأقصى ولكن دنسو

قدسية الأقصى فحل هوان

They would not have burned Al-Aqsa but they defiled

The sanctity of Al-Aqsa and so disgrace befell

بالمسلمين على اختلاف ديارهم

والناطقين الضاد أنى كانوا

The Muslims no matter where their homes are

And those who speak the dialect of Dad wherever they were

أنا لا أصدق بل أصدق ما جرى

والله إني تائه حيران

I do not believe, rather I believe what has happened

By God I am lost and confused

أنا منذ نكبتنا أتعظت وإنم

لم يتعظ ملك ولا سلطان

Since our setback I have learned while

Neither king nor sultan has learned