نشء (البليدة) لا عداك وفاق

بشرى على بشرى إليك تساق

O Nahda Club of Blida, none but you is of matchless virtue,

Youth of Al-Blida, may harmony never pass you by,

Good tidings upon good tidings are brought to you,

Good tidings upon good tidings are driven towards you.

بوئت بالنادي المبارك جنة

طابت بها الأنفاس والأذواق

I sensed the blessed club to be a paradise,

Through this blessed club, you have been granted a paradise,

Where breaths and tastes are delighted,

Wherein breaths are sweet and tastes are refined.

ناديك أفق أنت بدر نجومه

حاذر عليك الخلف فهو محاق!

Your club is a horizon, you are its full moon and stars,

Your club is a horizon, and you are the full moon among its stars;

Beware of any who fail you, for they are doomed!

Beware of discord befalling you, for it is a total eclipse!

قل للخطيب به دعوت ملبيا

وعنت لك الاذان والأحداق

Say to the preacher through it you called and I dutifully responded,

Say to the orator within: "You have called upon one who answers,"

And lent you my ears and visions.

"And ears and eyes have submitted humbly to you."

(نادي البليدة) محتويك وطيرها

مصغ إليك وماؤها صفاق

O Nahda club, you contain its birds and water,

The "Club of Blida" embraces you, and its birds...

Listen to it and its water is pure,

...Listen closely to you, while its waters flow freely.

نور به الغبراء فهو منارة

واصعد به الخضراء فهو براق

Illuminate through it the drabness, for it is a lighthouse,

Illuminate the dusty earth with it, for it is a beacon,

And ascend through it the greenness, for it is radiant,

And ascend the heavens with it, for it is a Buraq steed.

واجمع به شتى الرفاق فإنه

كنف عليه من الرفاق رواق

And gather through it all comrades, for it is

Gather within it all manner of companions, for it is...

A shelter for comrades from comrades a corridor.

A shelter over which the company of friends forms a canopy.

يا فتية النادي ومعشره الألى

ساقوا إليه به القلوب وشاقوا

O club’s youth and its intimate circle,

O youths of the club and its distinguished assembly,

Who hastened to it with hearts and endured,

Who drove hearts towards it and stirred deep longing.

داووا به مرض الهوى كمصحة

فيها لكل وجيعة ترياق

Cure through it the illness of passion like a health center,

Treat the sickness of caprice within it, like a sanitarium,

In which is a remedy for every ailment,

Wherein lies an antidote for every ailment.

واحموا به الأخلاق من إخلاقها

يعظم لكم في الصالحات خلاق

And protect through it morals from their corruption,

Protect morals thereby from wearing thin;

To magnify for you in righteous deeds the Creator,

Thus shall your share of righteous deeds be great.

البحث سبل فاسلكوها رشدا

بالعقل فهو دليلها السباق

Seek the ways and tread them rightly,

Inquiry has its paths, so tread them with guidance,

With the intellect for it is its leading guide,

Using reason, for it is the foremost guide.

فكوا به الأعناق من أطواقها

فلطالما قعدت به الأطواق

Unburden through it the necks of their shackles,

Liberate necks from their yokes through it,

For long have shackles seated the necks,

For too long have these yokes held them back.

وعليكم القرآن فهو من الهوى

حام وليس كنوره إشراق

And upon you is the Quran, for it from passions,

And hold fast to the Quran, for against caprice...

Is a protector, and not like its light, radiance,

It is a shield, and no radiance equals its light.

والبذل للأعمال ضربة لازب

فاكسوا به الأعمال فهو رتاق

And donating to deeds is hitting the nail on the head,

Generosity toward these works is an absolute necessity;

So cover through it deeds, for it is a coat of mail,

So clothe your deeds with it, for it repairs all rents.

وهبته أيدي المحسنين فأذعنت

لهم الرؤوس وذلت الأعناق

Its construction was granted by the hands of benefactors,

The hands of benefactors bestowed it, so heads bowed...

To whom heads bowed down and necks submitted,

In submission to them, and necks were humbled.

لا ترضخ الأفكار من أرزاقها

حتى تدر بجنبها الأرزاق

Do not let ideas weaken from their livelihoods,

Ideas will not yield their harvest,

Until they know alongside them livelihoods,

Until material provisions flow abundantly beside them.

يا قوم شعبكم أحاط به الأذى

وسطا عليه الجهل والاملاق

O people, your commoners are surrounded by harm,

O my people, harm has encompassed your nation,

And ignorance and vices have spread among them,

And ignorance and poverty have assaulted it.

والوهم عشش في الرؤوس فأطرقت

والوهم شر بلائه الإطراق

And illusion nested in the heads so they bowed down,

Illusion has nested in heads, causing them to bow in shame,

And illusion, its affliction is incurable,

And the worst affliction of illusion is this bowing down.

خطب الجماد الحي فاضطربت له

وتموجت بخطابه الافاق

The inanimate spoke so horizons shook,

The living addressed the inanimate, and it trembled for him,

And waved with its discourse the firmaments,

And the very horizons rippled at his speech.

وبنو الجزائر مخلدون إلى الكرى

وكأنني بهم الغداة أفاقوا

The Algerians are determined to the tombs,

Yet the sons of Algeria remain resigned to slumber—

As if I saw them in the morning awakened,

Though it is as if I see them, this very morning, awakening!

واستأنفوها نهضة جدية

لا الوهن يدركها ولا الاخفاق

And resumed a serious renaissance,

They have begun it anew: a serious renaissance,

Which neither weakness nor failure reaches,

Overtaken by neither weakness nor failure.

رست النوادي والمدارس بينهم

أسسا عليها شيدت الأخلاق

The clubs and schools took root among them,

Clubs and schools have anchored amongst them,

Principles upon which morals were built.

Foundations upon which morality is built.

يا برق غث لا كنت فينا خلبا

يا غيث جد لاخانك الإغداق

O lightning rain even if among us you were scarce,

O lightning, bring rain! Do not be a deceptive flash among us;

O pouring rain do not stint your downpour,

O rain, pour forth! May generosity never fail you.

ومن البداية بالنهاية مخبر

وعد الفروع بأنهم أعراق

And from the beginning to the end you inform,

The beginning is a harbinger of the end,

And promise the branches they are roots,

And the promise of the branches proves they are true roots.

يا قوم هل لكم بها من ضارب

فيها له بالرابحين لحاق

O people, is there among you a striver,

O my people, do you have a stake within this cause?

Through it to join the winners and attain,

Through which one may join the ranks of the victorious.

يا قوم لا تردوا الموارد عزلا

ومن الخمول على العقول نطاق

O people, do not repel resources in isolation,

O my people, do not approach the springs unarmed,

And from laziness upon minds a barrier,

While lethargy binds your minds like a belt.

فكوا النفوس من الجهالة والهوى

والوهم فهي على النفوس وثاق

Unbind the selves from ignorance and passions,

Liberate your souls from ignorance and caprice,

And illusions for they are tight shackles upon selves.

And from illusion, for these are shackles upon the soul.

يا فتية النادي تحية فتية

منكم كماحي الرفاق رفاق

O club youths, greetings of a comrade,

O youths of the club, a greeting from a youth,

From you like flashes of smiling comrades,

One of your own, as comrades greet comrades.

ووصية لكم بأن تتكاتفوا

وتسارعوا في الخير فهو سباق

And a behest to you to unite,

And a counsel to you: that you stand shoulder to shoulder,

And hasten in good for it is a race,

And hasten towards the good, for it is a race.

آواكم للخير «نادي نهضة»

فيه اغنموا فرص الحياة ولاقوا

I bid you farewell to goodness, Nahda Club,

A "Club of Renaissance" has sheltered you for the sake of good;

Through it reap life’s opportunities and meet,

Seize within it the opportunities of life, and meet.

دامت لكم حجراته ولضيفكم

نزلا وخلد عمره الخلاق

May its chambers and hospitality for your guest,

May its halls endure for you, and for your guests...

Remain an inn, and may its age be immortalized by the Creator.

As a welcoming abode, and may the Creator make its life eternal.