1. للعرب بيتٌ تداعى أيها الباني

    هو المسمى بسوريا ولبنانِ

    The Arabs have a house that has crumbled, O builder;

    it is the one named Syria and Lebanon.

  2. فانهض نرمم مبانيه التي درست

    واجعل دعائمها اكناف شبان

    So rise, and let us restore its ruined buildings,

    and make their pillars the shoulders of young men.

  3. لأنت اعلم بالجلى التي نزلت

    بها الدواهي على أهلٍ واوطان

    Surely you know best the great calamity amid which descended

    disasters upon people and homelands.

  4. وانت اول من يرجى لأمته

    في دفع عاديةٍ من دهرها الجاني

    And you are the first in whom your nation places hope

    to ward off the onslaught of its ravaging age.

  5. وهم جنودك فتيان البلاد وما

    يبني بيوت المعالي غير فتيان

    And they—the country's young men—are your soldiers; none

    but young men build the houses of high achievement.

  6. هفوا اليك وانت اليوم رايتهم

    فكن طليعتهم في كل ميدان

    They have flocked to you, and today you are their banner;

    so be their vanguard in every field.

  7. لا نستجيشنه للهيجاء تضرمها

    وتستطيل بأسيافٍ ومران

    We do not summon him for a war you would kindle,

    and in which you would vaunt your might with swords and spears.

  8. وإنما نحن نبغي ان نرى صلةً

    بين الكتابين إنجيلٍ وقرآن

    Rather, we seek only to see a bond

    between the two Scriptures, Gospel and Qur'an.

  9. وقد رأينا لك الجاه العريض على

    الشطرين من مسلم فينا ونصراني

    And we have seen your wide influence over

    both halves among us, Muslim and Christian.

  10. فاقتاد حبك منا كلَّ عاطفةٍ

    كما ترى الضان تقفور راعي الضان

    So love of you has led every feeling within us,

    as you see sheep follow the shepherd of the flock.

  11. فاضرب بنا كل داعٍ للشقاق ولا

    تحفل بشيخٍ ولا تأبه لمطران

    So strike through us at every caller to discord, and do not

    heed a sheikh or pay regard to a metropolitan bishop.

  12. كفى السياسة ما عاثت مطامعها

    فينا بتفريقنا من أجل اديان

    Enough of the havoc that politics' ambitions have wrought

    among us by dividing us on grounds of religion.

  13. لولا نوائبها ما هان جانبنا

    ولا جرت دمعةٌ من عين قحطاني

    Were it not for its calamities, our standing would not have been humbled,

    nor would a tear have flowed from a Qahtani's eye.

  14. فليرأب الصدع قومي بالتفافهم

    من حول عارف إخواناً لاخوان

    So let my people mend the rift by rallying

    around Arif, as brothers to brothers.

  15. فهو التضامن مرقاةُ الفلاح إذا

    عدا بلاداً فلا تحلم بعمران

    For solidarity is the stairway to success; if

    it bypasses a land, do not dream of prosperity.

  16. يا فتيةً طلعوا في ليلةٍ حسدت

    بها مطالعهم اقمارُ نيسان

    O young men who rose one night, envied

    in their rising by the moons of April.

  17. رعاكم اللَه هل أسد الشرى تركت

    اوجارها ام ارى غزلان عفان

    May God guard you! Have the lions of al-Shara left

    their lairs, or do I see the gazelles of Affan?

  18. من كل أصيد وضاح الجبين جرى

    في وجنتيه شباب ناضر قان

    Each proud and radiant-browed, with youth coursing

    through his cheeks, fresh and crimson.

  19. يكرمون فتى الاحسان عارفهم

    فتى المرؤة غوث البائس العاني

    They honor the generous youth, their Arif,

    the chivalrous youth, succor to the wretched sufferer.

  20. بكل مجلىً تولاه الصبا فمشى

    اليه غسانه في جنب غسان

    At every gathering presided over by youth, there came

    to it his Ghassan, alongside Ghassan.

  21. واطربتنا قوافيه مرشحةً

    كما طربنا لاسجاعٍ والحان

    And his embellished rhymes delighted us,

    just as rhymed prose and melodies delighted us.

  22. بشرى الشباب فقد وافاه قائده

    إلى المعالي باقدامٍ وإحسان

    Glad tidings for youth: their leader has joined them,

    onward to the heights, with courage and benevolence.

  23. فاقرأ على الوطن الملهوف تعزيةً

    العمر يومان واليومان ضدان

    So recite a consolation to the anguished homeland:

    life is two days, and the two days are opposites.

  24. واستطلع الطالع الميمون منبثقاً

    عليه عقبى تباريحٍ واحزان

    And watch for the auspicious star emerging

    over it, after torments and sorrows.

  25. لقد بدا العارف المحبوب فأدرعت

    به الشبيبة درعاً ليس بالفاني

    Indeed, the beloved Arif has appeared, and youth has clad itself

    in him as armor that will never perish.

  26. عش يا زعيم بلادٍ انت واوحدها

    فللبلاد زعيمٌ لا زعيمان

    Live on, O leader of the land—you, its peerless one!

    For the land has one leader, not two.