1. يومٌ يظلُّ بسِفرِ الدَّهر عنوانا

    تخطُّه بدماءِ القدس قتلانا

    A day that will remain a heading in the book of time,

    inscribed by our slain with the blood of Jerusalem.

  2. يومٌ عبوسٌ كأن الموتَ ألبسَهُ

    ثوبَ التتار وأصلاهُ مُصلانا

    A grim day, as though death had clothed it

    in the Tatars' robe and made it suffer our ordeal by fire.

  3. يومٌ مضى، مُضرِماً منَّا الكبود فلا

    نسطيعُ دفعاً له، أو عنه سُلوانا

    A day gone by, setting our livers aflame, so we cannot

    ward it off or find consolation for it.

  4. وكيف نسلوا وملءُ العين منظره

    طفلٌ توشَّح صبح اليوم أكفانا

    And how can we find solace, when his image fills our eyes—

    a child who at daybreak today was draped in shrouds?

  5. ياصورةً بثَّها التلفازُ مفجعةً

    تُثيرُ في خلد المحزون أشجانا

    O harrowing image broadcast by the television,

    stirring sorrows within the sorrowful mind!

  6. لوأنَّ صُمَّ جبالِ الطُّور تُبصِرُهُ

    لانت ْ ولكنَّ قلبَ الوغدِ مالانا

    Had the unyielding mountains of al-Tur seen him,

    they would have softened, but the villain's heart did not.

  7. أبٌ جريحٌ .. وطفلٌ خائفٌ .. وردىً

    يُزخُّ من ثَكنَات الحقد نيرانا

    A wounded father, a frightened child, and death

    spewed as flames from the barracks of hatred.

  8. لايستطيعان دفعْاً .. والرصاصُ إذا

    راما الهروبَ ترامى فوق ما كانا

    The two cannot fend it off; the bullets, whenever

    they try to flee, rain down on wherever they are.

  9. والوالدُ القلِقُ المسكينُ يسألُهُم

    عطفاً، فكانوا عن الإشفاق عُميانا

    The anxious, helpless father begs them

    for compassion, but they were blind to pity.

  10. والطفلُ يصرُخُ .. لكن لا مُجيبَ له

    إلا أزيز الردى .. ظلماً وطغيانا

    And the child screams, but no one answers him

    except death's buzzing, in injustice and tyranny.

  11. أبوه يُخفيهِ عنهم خلفهُ جَزعَاً

    عليه، يفديه أرواحًا وأبدانا

    His father hides him from them behind himself, terrified

    for him, ransoming him with lives and bodies.

  12. يبدو الذُّهولُ على عينيه مرتسماً

    والذعرُ أعظمُ ما قاسى وما عانى

    Bewilderment appears etched upon his eyes,

    and terror is the greatest thing he has endured and suffered.

  13. مات الصغيرُ .. كما ماتت كرامتنا

    وأرضنا .. وبقايا من بقايانا

    The little one died, just as our dignity has died,

    and our land, and remnants of what remains of us.

  14. طفلٌ له مثلُ أطفالِ الورى حلُمٌ

    لوكان يُغرسُ أحيا الأرضَ بستانا

    A child with a dream, like the children of humankind;

    if it were planted, it would bring the earth to life as a garden.

  15. ولوسقته ديار المسلمين .. نما

    بين القفار أزاهيراً وريحانا

    And if the lands of the Muslims watered it, it would grow

    amid the wastelands into blossoms and sweet basil.

  16. لله! ما أمَّلتْ أُمٌّ تشاطرُهُ

    في السعْدِ سَعْداً وفي الأحزانِ أحزانا

    By God, what hopes a mother cherished, sharing with him

    joy in happiness and sorrow in grief!

  17. وكيفَ تلقاهُ محمولاً وسيلُ دمٍ

    يصب منه على الأثواب وديانا

    And how can she meet him as he is carried, while a torrent of blood

    pours from him onto the clothes in rivers?

  18. قد كان بالأمس ملءَ البيتِ يعمُرُهُ

    لولاهُ كان دهاليزاً وجُدرانا

    Only yesterday, he filled the house with life;

    without him it was mere corridors and walls.

  19. في كلِّ شبرٍ له فيهِ إذا نظرتْ

    ذِكرى تؤجِّجُ في الأعماق بركانا

    In every inch of it, when she looks, there is

    a memory of him that kindles a volcano in her depths.

  20. قد كان بُستانها تأوي إليه إذا

    كلَّتْ فتلقاه أفنانا وغُدرانا

    He had been her garden, where she sought shelter when

    she grew weary, finding him boughs and pools.

  21. واليوم تبكيه دمعاً ليسَ يعرفه

    من كان يحمل للإسلام نُكرانا

    And today she weeps for him with tears unknown

    to anyone who harbors rejection of Islam.

  22. ولايُحسُّ به غِرٌّ يُراودهُ

    حُلمُ السلام على أعتابِ من خانا

    Nor does a naive man feel them, tempted

    by the dream of peace at the thresholds of one who betrayed.

  23. قومٌ لهم في سبيلِ الشرِّ سابقةٌ

    وكان تاريخُهُم غدراً وعُدوانا

    A people with a prior record in the pursuit of evil;

    their history was treachery and aggression.

  24. كم حَرَّفوا كتباً وقتلوا رُسُلاً

    وأفسدوا الأرض إسراراً وإعلانا

    How many books they falsified, and messengers they killed,

    and corrupted the earth in secret and openly!

  25. تاريخُهُم عفنٌ، ما فيه من شَرَفٍ

    قاسى الأمرَّ بهم موسى بن عمرانا

    Their history is rot; there is no honor in it.

    At their hands, Moses, son of Imran, endured the bitterest suffering.

  26. قومٌ على عَتبِ التاريخِ تلفظهم

    أبوابه .. فغدوا في الكون غربانا

    A people at history's threshold, whom

    its gates spit out; they became crows in the world.

  27. لها نعيقٌ بإعلامٍ يضللنا

    يبث من خبثه جهراً خزايانا

    Their cawing sounds through media that mislead us,

    openly broadcasting our disgraces out of its malice.

  28. والغرقديون في أعقابهم زمر

    ينافحون زُرافاتٍ ووحدانا

    And the Gharqadis trail behind them in bands,

    defending them in groups and one by one.

  29. يُهمِّشونَ قضايانا بزُخرُفةٍ

    عن السلام لننساها قضايانا

    They marginalize our causes with ornate talk

    of peace, so that we forget them—our causes.

  30. هيهاتَ، من يعشق البيت الحرام يجدْ

    في قلبه للقاء القدس تحنانا

    Far from it! Whoever loves the Sacred House finds

    in his heart a yearning to meet Jerusalem.

  31. هيهات، من يقرأ القرآن تُبدِ له

    حروفُهُ أنَّ في صهيون أضغانا

    Far from it! Whoever reads the Quran is shown

    by its letters that Zion harbors hatreds.

  32. قد أخبر اللهُ عنهم أنهم بشَرٌ

    لا يرتضون سوى الكُفران أديانا

    God has told of them that they are people

    who accept no religions but disbelief,

  33. وأنهم حَسَداً من عندِ أنفُسِهِم

    ودَّوا لو ارتدَّ أهل الدين كفرانا

    and that, from envy within their own souls,

    they wished the people of faith would turn back to unbelief,

  34. وأنهم ليس ترضيهم حقيقتنا

    ولو أحلنا تراب الأرض عقيانا

    and that our true nature does not please them,

    even if we turned the earth's dust to pure gold,

  35. وأنهم جبناء الأرض ما ابتدروا

    للحرب إلا وكان الحربُ خسرانا

    and that they are the earth's cowards: never have they rushed

    to war without that war proving a loss.

  36. ما ذلنا اليوم منهم بأسُ ألويةٍ

    لكننا قد أذلتنا خطايانا

    It is not the might of their brigades that has humbled us today;

    but our sins have indeed humbled us.

  37. يا أمَّةَ الحقِ، آن الوعدُ، فانتفضي

    يكفيك من هدأة الفرسان ما كانا

    O nation of truth, the promised time has come: rise up!

    The knights' past repose should be enough for you.

  38. آن الأوانُ، وحانت منكِ ملحمةٌ

    تعيدُ مسجدنا الأقصى ومسرانا

    The time has come, and an epic battle is due from you,

    to restore our al-Aqsa Mosque and our site of the Night Journey.

  39. والوعدُ حقٌّ، ووعدُ الحق قد ظهرتْ

    آياتُهُ، فإلى الأقصى سرايانا

    The promise is true, and the True One's promise has revealed

    its signs; so, our detachments, onward to al-Aqsa!

  40. قد أخبرَ اللهُ أنَّ النصرَ منعقدٌ

    وأنَّ جندَ بني صهيون أسرانا

    God has told us that victory is assured,

    and that the soldiers of the sons of Zion are our captives.

  41. مُحمَّد بن جمالِ الدُّرةِ انسكبتْ

    لكَ المشاعرُ حرَّى من حنايانا

    Muhammad, son of Jamal al-Durrah, there have poured forth

    for you burning feelings from our bosoms.

  42. وهبَّ ضوعُكَ من روضِ الجهاد فما

    زال القصيدُ يسحُّ الدمعَ هتانا

    And your fragrance wafted from the garden of jihad; never

    has the verse ceased pouring tears in a steady shower.

  43. وليس للشعرِ إن أنشدتُ من أَلَقٍ

    إن لم ينَمِّ أحاسيساً ووجدانا

    And poetry, when I recite it, has no radiance

    unless it nurtures feelings and deep emotion.

  44. إنْ أنجبتْ أُمَّةَ الإسلامِ خالدَها

    ففي البقيَّةِ أُسْدٌ تُصنعُ الآنا

    If the nation of Islam has borne its Khalid,

    then among the rest are lions being forged now.