سِيرُوا عَلَى بَرَكَاتِ اللهِ وَاغْتَنِمُوا

أَجْرَ الْجِهَادِ وَأَجْرَ البِرِّ بِالنَّاسِ

Go forth with God’s blessings, and seize

the reward of striving and the reward of kindness to humanity.

لِيَشْفِ مِبْضَعُكُمْ وَالرِّفْقُ يُعْمِلُهُ

صَدْعَ الرَّصَاصِ وَجُرْحَ الصَّارِمِ القَاسِي

Let your scalpel heal, with gentleness setting it to work,

the rent made by bullets and the wound of the harsh saber.

لَهْفِي عَلَى شُوسِ أَبْطَالٍ تَلُوكُهُمُ

غُولُ الرَّدَى بَيْنَ أَنْيَابٍ وَأَضْرَاسِ

Alas for fierce heroes, chewed

by the ogre of death between fangs and molars.

كَانُوا وَقَدْ رَكِبُوا لِلْحَرْبِ أَبْهَجَ مَا

تَرَى العُيُونُ غِياضاً فَوْقَ أَفْرَاسِ

When they rode forth to war, they were the loveliest

groves that eyes might behold upon horses.

وَاليَوْمَ قَدْ عَثَرُوا تنْدَى نَضَارَتُهُمْ

نَدَى الْجَفَافِ وَتَخْبُو شعْلَةُ البَاسِ

But today they have stumbled, their freshness bedewed

with the dew of drought, while valor’s flame grows dim.

كُونوا لَهمْ إِنْ شكوْا إِخْوَانَ تَأْسِيَةٍ

وَإِنْ همُ اسْتَوْحَشُوا إِخْوَانَ إِيَنَاسِ

Be brothers of consolation to them if they complain,

and brothers bringing companionship if they grow lonely.

رُدوا عَلَى الْوَطَنِ البَاكِي أَعِزَّتَهُ

وَدَافِعُوا المَوْتُ عَنْهُم دَفْعَ أَكْيَاسِ

Restore to the weeping homeland its dear ones,

and ward death from them with the care of the wise.

فَإِنَّ أَسقَامَهُمْ فِي كُلِّ جَارِحَةٍ

مِنَّا وَآلاَمَهُمْ فِي كُلِّ إِحْسَاسِ

For their illnesses are present in every limb

of ours, and their pains in every feeling.

لِلهِ مَسْعَاتُكُمْ وَالحَقُّ يَشْكُرُهَا

وَالخَلْقُ يَذكُرُهَا ترْدِيدَ أَنْفَاسِ

To God belong your endeavors, and truth will thank you for them;

all creation will remember them with every repeated breath.

مَبرَّةٌ طَهُرَتْ أَرْوَاحُكُمْ وَسمتْ

بِهَا مَرَاتِب فَوْقَ الضَّيمِ وَاليَاسِ

A work of charity through which your spirits were purified and rose

to ranks above oppression and despair.

خُوضُوا المَصَاعبَ لا يُلْمِمْ بِأَنْفِسكُمْ

مَا قَدْ تُلاَقونَ مِنْ ضرٍ وَمِنْ بَاسِ

Face hardships; let your souls not be troubled

by whatever injury and adversity you may encounter.

هَذا الْهِلاَلُ لَكُمْ رَأْدَ النَّهارِ هُدى

وفِي اعْتِكَارِ الدَّيَاجِي خَيْرُ نِبْرَاسِ

This crescent is yours—a guiding light by day,

and, amid the gathering blackness of night, the finest lamp.

وَإِنَّ فِي ظِلِّهِ النَّادِي بِرَحْمَتِهِ

لبَلْسَماً لِجَراحِ القلْبِ وَالرَّاسِ

And beneath its shade, calling out through its mercy,

is balm for the wounds of heart and head.

أَي عِصْبَةَ الْخَيْرِ دَارُوا أَبْرِيَاءَ هَوَوْا

صَرْعَى مَطامِعِ قُوَّادٍ وَسُوَّاسِ

O fellowship of goodness, tend the innocents who fell,

victims of the ambitions of commanders and politicians.

لوْ صوَّرَ فِي جِسْم مرِئٍ مَلكاً

لَصَوَّرَ المَلَكَ الإِنْسِيَّ فِي آسِ

If an angel were portrayed in a human body,

the human angel would be portrayed amid myrtle.