حنا العرب يــا مدعين العروبة
و حنا هل التوحيد وانتم له اجناب
We Arabs, O you who claim Arabism
While we are the people of monotheism and you are its bastards
و حنا شروق المجد وانتم غروبه
وحنا هل التاريخ و أنتم به أغراب
We are the sunrises of glory while you are its sunsets
We are the people of history while you are its strangers
يوم الفقر شلتوا علينا عيوبه
واليوم عقب النفط جيتوا لنا أنساب
On the day of poverty, you blamed us for its problems
And today, after oil, you started claiming ancestry from us
ويوم الفقر فينا البداوة سبوبة
واليوم صرتوا مثلنا بدو واعراب
And on the day of poverty, we had rampant nomadism
While today you have become nomads and bedouins like us
لو الهوى منكم منعتم هبوبه
لا شك رزاق الملا رب الأرباب
If inclination was up to you, you would have prevented its blowing
No doubt, the Sustainer of creation is the Lord of lords
و لو المطرمنكم منعتم صبوبه
لا شك رزق الخلق من عند وهاب
And if rain was up to you, you would have prevented its pouring
No doubt, the sustenance of creation is from The Giver
جيش الحسد سقتوا علينا حروبه
كل يبي يزرع على جسمنا ناب
The army of envy has led wars against us
Each one wanting to plant his fang upon our body
حرب على المحسن تراها عقوبة
بالله عساكم ما تفيدون حراب
Waging war on benefactors, you see it as punishment
By Allah, I hope you do not incite more wars
ياما عطينا ما ندور مثوبه
الا من اللى من ترجاه ما خاب
We have given so much without expecting reward
Except from He who we hope in and is never failed
و ياما نصرنا صاحب ضيقوا به
عاداتنا نقدم الى ما لردى هاب
And we have supported many who were in distress
It is our habit to race towards those in adversity
و ياما نصانا من تعثر دروبه
يدخل حمانا من تعذرها الأصحاب
And we have saved many from the difficulties of their roads
Taking them into our sanctuary when their companions abandoned them
حنا بنينا دارنا من طيوبه
و انتم سلبتوا داركم كل ما طاب
We built our houses with goodness
While you robbed your houses of all that is good
الله سقانا من بحرنا عذوبه
و انهاركم مثل البحر هدر تنساب
Allah quenched us from our freshwater sea
While your rivers spill like flooding seas
حنا زرعنا الحب بارض خصوبه
و أنتم زرعتوا كره الأجيال بتراب
We planted love in fertile soil
While you planted hatred of generations in ashes
وحنا دعينا السلم نوبه ونوبه
وانتم حمام السلم بعتوه بغراب
And we called for peace, time and again
While you sold the pigeon of peace for a crow
يا من دعا للحرب ما ادراك خطوبه
لا تحسب أن الحرب تهديد وخطاب
O you who called for war, do you know its perils
Do not think that war is just threats and talk
من شب نار الحرب يصلى شبوبه
ومن ثور الفتنة تعرض للأسباب
He who ignites the fires of war will have sleepless nights
And he who kindles the flames of strife will be engulfed
ما يستر الرجال ملبوس ثوبه
الدين وافعال الكرامة له ثياب
What clothes men is not their attire
But religion and honorable deeds are their robes
