جاء ميعاد نوبة العلة اليو
م وصار الوجدان هما طويلا
The hour of the flag watch has come to-
The time for a bout of illness has come today,
day; long has my heart borne sorrow.
and my inner self has become one long sorrow.
وتخلفت عن مكانيَ في المي
دان لا مدبراً ولا مخذولا
And I am absent from my post on the battle-
And I have stayed behind, away from my post on the battlefield,
field—neither retreating nor forsaken.
neither retreating nor forsaken.
في سبيل البلاد موتى قتيلاً
لي أولى من أن أعيش عليلا
To die slain in the homeland’s cause
To die slain in my country's cause
is better for me than to live infirm.
is better for me than to live ailing.
وكفاني فيها معاداً وبعثاً
أن تراني جنديّها المجهولا
It is enough for me there as return and resurrection
And enough for me, as return and resurrection in her,
that you behold me as its Unknown Soldier.
is that she should see me as her unknown soldier.
Sol 6.1