مآتم الظلم تتلوهن أعياد

إياك أن تجزعي إياك بغداد

The mourning rites of oppression are followed by festivals.

Beware of losing heart, beware, Baghdad!

أمس استبد بأهليك الطغاة أذى

وراح يمتحن الأحرار جلاد

Yesterday the tyrants cruelly oppressed your people,

And a torturer set about testing the free.

فهب أبناؤك الأحرار في همم

تغار منها لدى الهيجاء آساد

So your free sons rose with such resolve

That lions envy it in the midst of battle.

فلم يرعهم رصاص الخائنين ولا

قيد وحبس وتعذيب وإبعاد

So the traitors' bullets did not frighten them, nor did

Fetters, imprisonment, torture, or banishment.

حتى تهدم صرح الظلم وانكفأت

قدر الفساد وأهل الظلم قد بادوا

Until oppression's edifice collapsed, and overturned was

The cauldron of corruption; the oppressors had perished.

ورفرفت راية الإسلام عالية

وحن للعز أشراف وأمجاد

And Islam's banner fluttered high,

And nobles and illustrious men yearned for honor.

والله أكبر قد راحت ترددها

بعد المنابر أغوار وأنجاد

And 'God is greatest' began to be echoed

By valleys and uplands, after the pulpits.

ودمدمت سور القرآن صارخة

كأنها مقل ترنو ومرصاد

And the Quran's chapters thundered, crying out,

As though they were gazing eyes and a lookout.

أشبال بغداد ياسرا تضمنه

صدر الزمان به أجدادنا سادوا

Lion cubs of Baghdad, O secret held within

Time's breast, through which our forefathers attained mastery.

وحطموا كل طاغوت ومختتل

طغى على قلبه غل واحقاد

And they shattered every tyrant and scheming deceiver,

Whose heart was overwhelmed by rancor and hatreds.

بغداد أنت حمى الإسلام تحرسه

من عاديات الليالي السود أجناد

Baghdad, you are Islam's sanctuary, guarded

Against the assaults of dark nights by troops.

يا شامة في جبين الدهر رائعة

بها جمال العلى والمجد يزداد

O splendid beauty mark upon time's brow,

Through which the beauty of eminence and glory grows.

يا روضة من رياض العز زاهرة

للطير فيها على الأغصان إنشاد

O blooming garden among the gardens of honor,

Where birds sing upon the branches.

ويبسم الفجر من ريا نوافجها

ما اهتز روح وريحان وأوراد

And dawn smiles at the fragrance of its musk-pouches,

As long as breezes, sweet basil, and blossoms sway.

يا قلعة من قلاع الحق خالدة

ما راعها قط إبراق وإرعاد

O eternal fortress among the fortresses of truth,

Neither lightning nor thunder has ever frightened it.

باتت على هامة التاريخ رافعة

نور النبي لمن زاغوا ومن حادوا

It has stood upon history's summit, holding aloft

The Prophet's light for those who strayed and those who turned aside.

عم البرايا سلام من حضارتها

وأمها من جميع الخلق قصاد

Peace from its civilization encompassed all creatures,

And visitors from all mankind sought it.

فاضت ينابيعها برا ومرحمة

وروح نهضتها هدي وإرشاد

Its springs overflowed with goodness and mercy,

And the spirit of its revival was guidance and right direction.

إياك أن تجزعي إياك بغداد

شدي الوثاق فصرح الظلم مياد

Beware of losing heart, beware, Baghdad!

Tighten the bonds, for oppression's edifice is tottering.

سدي ثغور العدى واستجمعي همما

لنا مع الفجر يا بغداد ميعاد

Seal the foes' entry points and muster high resolve.

We have an appointment with dawn, O Baghdad.

غدا يدوي نداء الحق ثانية

فتستجيب مدى الآفاق أمداد

Tomorrow the call of truth will thunder once more,

And reinforcements will answer across the horizons,

هدارة كسيول طم زاخرها

يطفو عليها من الأخباث أزباد

Roaring like torrents whose surging waters overflow,

Upon which floats the foam of filth.

وتدمغ الباطل المذبوح حجتنا

فينثني زاهقا تبكيه أوغاد

And our proof crushes slaughtered falsehood,

So it recoils, perishing, mourned by scoundrels.

إسلامنا لا يرى فينا له تبعا

إذا رآنا لأهل الظلم ننقاد

Our Islam sees no followers of its own among us

If it sees us submitting to the people of oppression.

صلاتنا لا يراها الله قائمة

ويحكم الناس فساق وفساد

God does not regard our prayer as established

While sinners and corrupters rule the people.

تشقى الملايين من أبناء أمتنا

فيستبد بتالي الأمر أفراد

Millions of our nation's children suffer,

So a few individuals monopolize the outcome of affairs.

الحكم لله لا يطغى به أحد

والشرع أولى إذا حكامنا حادوا

Rule belongs to God; no one may use it to tyrannize.

And divine law takes precedence if our rulers stray.

شريعة الله لا نرضى بها بدلا

وإن تميز من دعواي حساد

We accept no substitute for God's law,

Even if the envious burst with rage at my claim.

فالغرب ما انفك يسبينا ويظلمنا

والشرق كالغرب زمار وعواد

For the West has never ceased to take us captive and wrong us,

And the East, like the West, is a piper and an oud-player.

شريعة الله تحيينا وتسعدنا

وما سواها فتضليل وإفساد

God's law gives us life and makes us happy,

And all else is misguidance and corruption.

كفى نفاقا كفى غشا كفى كذبا

منكم تبرأ دين الله والضاد

Enough hypocrisy, enough deceit, enough lies!

God's religion and the tongue of ḍād have disowned you.

قد حصحص الحق فاسودت وجوهكم

كما تلجلج نهاز وصياد

The truth has come to light, and your faces have blackened,

Just as an opportunist and a hunter have faltered.

عند الصباح لكم رأي يناقضه

رأي المساء فاصدر وإيراد

At morning you hold an opinion contradicted by

The evening's opinion—so send out and bring in.

يا فتية الحق إن الله ناصركم

زوروا الأعادي كما أجدادكم زاروا

O youths of truth, God is surely your helper.

Visit the enemies as your forefathers visited them.

آن الأوان فشدوا من عزائمكم

فأنتم لحماة الدين أحفاد

The time has come, so strengthen your resolve,

For you are descendants of the faith's defenders.

وجردوا عن سيوف الحق إن لها

جماجم الكفر عند الروع أغماد

And bare the swords of truth, for their

Sheaths in the hour of terror are the skulls of unbelief.

تزودوا للقاء الله وانطلقوا

لنصره الحق والتقوى هي الزاد

Take provisions for meeting God, and set forth,

To champion the truth; piety is the provision.

آباؤنا الصيد صانوا ديننا قدما

ودونه بذل الأرواح أجداد

Our noble fathers protected our faith long ago,

And forefathers gave their lives in its defense.

ونحن أبناؤهم لا نرتضي أبدا

ذلا ولو كبلتنا اليوم أصفاد

And we, their sons, will never accept

Humiliation, even if shackles bind us today.

ما كان للظلم أن يمحو عقيدتنا

ولن يروق لنا كفر وإلحاد

Oppression could never erase our creed,

Nor will unbelief and atheism ever appeal to us.

نهاية الظلم يا بغداد واحدة

الله والحق والتاريخ اشهاد

Oppression has but one end, O Baghdad,

God, truth, and history are witnesses.