1. لبيك وازدحمت على الأبواب

    صبوات أعيادٍ وعرس تصابي

    At your service! Crowding at the doors are

    Festive yearnings and a wedding of youthful dalliance.

  2. لبيك يا بن العرب أبدع دربنا

    فتن الجمال المسكر الخلاب

    At your service, son of the Arabs! Our path has fashioned

    The enchantments of intoxicating, captivating beauty.

  3. فتبرجت فيه المباهج مثلما

    تتبرج الغادات للعزاب

    Along it, delights displayed their beauty, just as

    Graceful maidens display theirs for bachelors.

  4. واخضرت الأشواق فيه والمنى

    كالزهر حول الجدول المنساب

    And longings and hopes grew green along it,

    Like flowers around the flowing brook.

  5. ومضى به زحف العروبة والدنى

    ترنو، وتهتف عاد فجر شبابي

    Along it the march of Arabhood advanced, while the worlds

    Gaze and cry: 'The dawn of my youth has returned!'

  6. إنا زرعناه منىً وجماجماً

    فنما وأخصب أجود الإخصاب

    We sowed it with hopes and skulls,

    And it grew and flourished most abundantly.

  7. ويحدق التاريخ فيه كأنه

    يتلو البطولة من سطور كتاب

    History gazes intently at it, as though

    Reciting heroism from the lines of a book.

  8. عاد التقاء العرب فاهتف يا أخي

    للفجر، وارقص حول شدو ربابي

    The Arabs' reunion has returned; cheer, my brother,

    For the dawn, and dance around my rabab's song.

  9. واشرب كؤوسك واسقني نخب اللقا

    واسكب بقايا الدن في أكوابي

    Drink your cups, and give me a toast to reunion;

    Pour the wine jar's remains into my cups.

  10. هذي الهتافات السكارى والمنى

    حولي تناديني إلى الأنخاب

    These drunken cheers and hopes

    Around me call me to the toasts.

  11. خلفي وقدامي هتاف مواكبٍ

    وهوىً يزغرد في شفاه كعاب

    Behind me and before me are the cheers of processions,

    And love ululates on the lips of budding maidens.

  12. والزهر يهمس في الرياض كأنه

    أشعار حبٍ في أرق عتاب

    Flowers whisper in the gardens, as though they were

    Love poems in the tenderest reproach.

  13. والجو من حولي يرنحه الصدى

    فيهيم كالمسحورة المطراب

    The echo makes the air around me sway,

    And it wanders like an enchanted woman enraptured by song.

  14. والريح ألحان تهازج سيرنا

    والشهب أكواب من الأطياب

    The wind is melodies singing along with our march,

    And the shooting stars are cups of perfumes.

  15. إنا توحدنا هوىً ومصائراً

    وتلاقت الأحباب بالأحباب

    We have become one in love and destinies,

    And loved ones have met loved ones.

  16. أترى ديار العرب كيف تضافرت

    فكأن “صنعا” في “دمشق” روابي

    Do you see how the Arab lands have joined forces?

    As though Sanaa were hills within Damascus,

  17. وكأن “مصر” و”سوريا” في “ماربٍ”

    علم وفي “صنعا” أعز قباب

    And as though Egypt and Syria, in Marib,

    Were a banner, and in Sanaa the proudest domes.

  18. لاقى الشقيق شقيقه، فاسألهما

    كيف التلاقي بعد طول غياب؟

    Brother has met his brother; ask them both

    What reunion is like after so long an absence.

  19. اليوم ألقى في “دمشق” بني أبي

    وأبث أهلي في الكنانة ما بي

    Today, in Damascus, I meet my father's sons,

    And confide to my family in al-Kinana what ails me.

  20. وأبث أجدادي بني غسان في

    ربوات “جلق” محنتي وعذابي

    And to my forefathers, the sons of Ghassan, upon

    Jilliq's hills, I confide my ordeal and torment.

  21. وأهيم والأنسام تنشر ذكرهم

    حولي فتنضح بالعطور ثيابي

    I wander in rapture as the breezes spread their memory

    Around me, until my clothes drip with perfumes.

  22. وأهز في ترب “المعرة” شاعراً

    مثلي: توحد خطبه ومصابي

    And in al-Ma‘arra's dust I stir a poet

    Like me: his calamity and my affliction have become one.

  23. وأعود أسأل “جلقاً” عن عهدها

    “بأميةٍ” وبفتحها الغلاب

    I return to ask Jilliq about her days

    With Umayya, and her all-conquering conquest.

  24. صورٌ من الماضي تهامس خاطري

    كتهامس العشاق بالأهداب

    Images from the past whisper to my mind,

    As lovers whisper with their eyelashes.

  25. دعني أغرد فالعروبة روضتي

    ورحاب موطنها الكبير رحابي

    Let me sing, for Arabhood is my garden,

    And the expanses of its great homeland are my expanses.

  26. “فدمشق” بستاني “ومصر” جداولي

    وشعاب “مكة” مسرحي وشعابي

    For Damascus is my orchard, and Egypt my streams,

    And Mecca's ravines are my roaming ground and my ravines.

  27. وسماء “لبنانٍ” سماي وموردي

    “بردى” ودجلة والفرات شرابي

    Lebanon's sky is my sky, and my watering place

    Is Barada; the Tigris and Euphrates are my drink.

  28. وديار عمانٍ” دياري.. أهلها

    أهلي وأصحاب العراق صحابي

    Amman's lands are my lands; her people

    Are my family, and the people of Iraq my companions.

  29. بل إخوتي ودم “الرشيد” يفور في

    أعصابهم ويضج في أعصابي

    Rather, my brothers—and al-Rashid's blood boils in

    Their nerves and roars in my nerves.

  30. شعب العراق وإن أطال سكوتهُ

    فسكوته الإنذار للإرهاب

    The people of Iraq, though they prolong their silence—

    Their silence is a warning to terror.

  31. سل عنه سل عبدالإله وفيصلاً

    يبلغك صرعهما أتم جواب

    Ask about them; ask Abd al-Ilah and Faisal:

    Their downfall will give you the fullest answer.

  32. لن يخفض الهامات للطاغي ولم

    يخضع رؤوس القوم للأذناب

    They will not bow their heads before the tyrant, nor have they

    Bent the people's heads before lackeys.

  33. وطن العروبة موطني أعياده

    عيدي، وشكوى إخوتي أوصابي

    The homeland of Arabhood is my homeland; its festivals

    Are my celebration, and my brothers' grievances my pains.

  34. فاترك جناحي حيث يهوى تحتضن

    جو العروبة جيئتي وذهابي

    So leave my wing wherever it longs, that

    My coming and going may embrace Arabhood's air.

  35. يا ابن العروبة شد في كفي يداً

    ننفض غبار الذل والأتعاب

    Son of Arabhood, clasp a hand in my palm;

    Let us shake off the dust of humiliation and hardship.

  36. فهنا هنا اليمن الخصيب مقابرٌ

    ودمٌ مباحٌ واحتشاد ذئاب

    For here, here, fertile Yemen is graveyards,

    And blood free for the spilling, and wolves massing.

  37. ذكره بالماضي عسى يبني على

    أضوائه مجداً أعز جناب

    Remind it of the past, that it might build upon

    Its lights a glory of nobler stature.

  38. ذكره بالتاريخ واذكر أنه

    شعب الحضارة مشرق الأحساب

    Remind it of history, and remember that it is

    A people of civilization, radiant in lineage.

  39. صنع الحضارة والعوالم نومٌ

    والدهر طفل في مهود تراب

    It fashioned civilization while the worlds slept,

    And time was a child in cradles of dust.

  40. ومشى على قممم الدهور إلى العلا

    وبنى الصروح على ربى الأحقاب

    It walked upon the summits of the ages toward the heights,

    And built lofty edifices on the hills of epochs.

  41. وهدى السبيل إلى الحضارة والدنا

    في التيه لم يحلم بلمح شهاب

    It showed the way to civilization, while the worlds

    Were lost, never dreaming of a meteor's flash.

  42. فمتى يفيق على الشروق ويومه

    يبدو ويخفى كالشعاع الخابي

    When, then, will it awaken to sunrise, while its day

    Appears and vanishes like a fading ray?

  43. يا شعب مزق كل طاغٍ وانتزع

    عن سارقيك مهابة الأرباب

    O people, tear apart every tyrant, and strip

    From your robbers the awe accorded to gods.

  44. وأحذر رجالاً كالوحوش كسوتهم

    خلعاً من “الأجواخ” والألقاب

    And beware of men like beasts whom you have clothed

    In robes of honor, of broadcloth and titles.

  45. خنقوا البلاد وجورهم وعتوهم

    كل الصواب وفصل كل خطاب

    They strangled the land; their injustice and arrogance

    Are all that is right, and the final word in every discourse.

  46. لم يحسبوا للشعب لكن عنده

    للعابثين به أشد حساب

    They took no account of the people; yet the people have

    The harshest reckoning for those who toy with them.

  47. صمت الشعوب على الطغاة وعنفهم

    صمت الصواعق في بطون سحاب

    The silence of peoples before tyrants and their violence

    Is the silence of thunderbolts in the bellies of clouds.

  48. فاحذر رجالاً كالوحوش همومهم

    سلب الحمى والفخر بالأسلاب

    So beware of men like beasts, whose concerns are

    Plundering the homeland and boasting of the spoils.

  49. شهدوا تقدمك السريع فأسرعوا

    يتراجعون به على الأعقاب

    They witnessed your swift progress, and hastened

    To take it backward on their heels.

  50. لم يحسنوا صدقاً ولا كذباً سوى

    حيل الغبي وخدعة المتغابي

    They mastered neither truth nor falsehood, except

    The fool's tricks and the deceit of one who feigns stupidity.

  51. قل للإمام: وإن تحفز سيفه

    أعوانك الأخيار شر ذئاب

    Tell the Imam, though his sword stands poised:

    'Your virtuous helpers are the vilest wolves.'

  52. يومون عندك بالسجود وعندنا

    يومون بالأظفار والأنياب

    Before you, they gesture in prostration; before us,

    They gesture with claws and fangs.

  53. هم في كراسيهم قياصرةٌ وهم

    عند الأمير عجائز المحراب

    In their seats they are Caesars, but

    Before the prince, old women of the prayer niche.

  54. يتملقون ويبلغون إلى العلا

    بخداعهم وبأخبث الأسباب

    They fawn and reach the heights

    Through their deceit and the foulest means.

  55. من كل معسول النفاق كأنه

    حسناً تتاجر في الهوى وترابي

    Each one honeyed in hypocrisy, as though he were

    A beauty trading in love and practicing usury.

  56. وغداً سيحرقون في وهج السنى

    وكأنهم كانوا خداع سراب

    Tomorrow they will be burned in the blaze of radiance,

    As though they had been a mirage's deceit.

  57. وتفيق “صنعاء” الجديد على الهدى

    والوحدة الكبرى على الأبواب

    And the new Sanaa awakens to guidance,

    And the great unity is at the doors.