Claude 2

  1. قَدْ قَالَ سَادَاتُنَا مِنْ قَبْلِنَا حِكَمَاً

    مَا زَالَ يَحْفَظُهَا عَقْلِيْ وَوِجْدَانِي

    Our forefathers have spoken words of wisdom before us

    Which my mind and conscience still preserve

  2. (لا تَظْلِمَنَّ إِذَا مَا كُنْتَ مُقْتَدِرَاً)

    (فَالظُّلْمُ تَرْجِعُ عُقْبَاهُ إِلَى) الجَانِي

    "Do not oppress when you have power"

    For oppression will recoil upon the oppressor

  3. (تَنَامُ عَيْنُكَ وَالمَظْلُوْمُ مُنْتَبِهٌ

    يَدْعُو عَلَيْكَ) بِخُسْرَانٍ وَخُذْلانِ

    While you sleep, the oppressed remains awake

    Invoking curses of ruin and abandonment on you

  4. فَلأَدْعُوَنَّ عَلَيْكَ فِي غَسَقِ الدُّجَى

    عِنْدَ السُّجُوْدِ .. وَفِي سِرِّيْ وَإِعْلانِي

    So I will invoke curses on you in the darkness of night

    In my prostrations and in my intimacy and openly

  5. فَلْتَشْرَبَنَّ كُؤُوْسَ الظُّلْمِ مُنْتَشِيَاً

    مَا كَانَ ظُلْمُ الوَرَى فَخْرَاً لإِنْسَانِ

    Drink then the cups of oppression until you perish

    For the oppression of mankind was never a human glory

  6. غَدَاً نُغَادِرُ هَذِيْ الدَّارَ أَجْمَعُنَا

    حَتْمَاً سَنَتْرُكُ هَذَا العَالَمَ الفَانِي

    Tomorrow we will all leave this house

    And inevitably we will leave this fleeting world

  7. عَمَّا قَرِيْبٍ سَيَقْضِيْ بَيْنَنَا حَكَمٌ

    فَالظُّلْمُ يَهْدِمُ حَقًّا كُلَّ بُنْيَانِ

    Soon there will be judgement between us

    For oppression demolishes the foundation of every right

  8. أَنَا وَأَنْتَ لَدَى الجَبَّارِ مَوْقِفُنَا

    فِي يَوْمِ تُوْضَعُ كِفَّتَا المِيْزَانِ

    You and I will stand before The Almighty

    On the day when the two scales are weighed

  9. أَنَا وَأَنْتَ وَمَنْ بِالسُّوْءِ يَأْمُرُكُمْ

    إِنَّا جَمِيْعَاً لَدَى الدَيَّانِ خَصْمَانِ

    You and I and those who commanded you evil

    We will all stand before The Judge as adversaries

  10. وَلْتَتَّقُوْا دَعْوَةَ المَظْلُوْمِ يَرْفَعُهَا

    فَوْقَ الغَمَامِ إِلَهٌ لَيْسَ يَنْسَانِي

    And beware the prayer of the oppressed, he lifts it

    Above the clouds to a God who does not forget me

  11. وَقَدْ تَعَهَّدَ رَبِّيْ أَنْ سَيَنْصُرُهَا

    لَوْ بَعْدَ حِيْنٍ وَهَذَا القَوْلُ نُوْرَانِي

    And my Lord has promised that He will answer it

    Even if after some time, and this saying illuminates me

  12. فَاحْذَرْ مِنَ الظُّلْمِ أَنْ تَأْتِيْكَ قَارِعَةٌ

    أَوْ أَنْ تَحُلَّ قَرِيْبَاً.. إِنَّهُ دَانِ

    So beware of oppressing, lest there come upon you a catastrophe

    Or it befall you soon, indeed He is the Ordainer