عجبت لمفتون يروم صراعنا

عجبت لمفتون يروم صراعنا

ونحن اناس راح يحرسنا القدر

ونحن اناس راح يحرسنا القدر

I marveled at a deluded man who seeks to wrestle with us.

I'm amazed by a lover who seeks to rival us

And we are a people whom destiny has begun to guard.

While we are people destiny guards

لنا المجد ارث من جدود اماجد

لنا المجد ارث من جدود اماجد

لهم خضع البيض الاكابر من مضر

لهم خضع البيض الاكابر من مضر

Glory is ours, inherited from illustrious forefathers.

Glory is our inheritance from glorious ancestors

Before them bowed the fair-faced grandees of Mudar.

To them bowed the mighty chiefs of Muḍar

رمانا بسهم الوهم ذو الغي مخطئا

رمانا بسهم الوهم ذو الغي مخطئا

واخطأ رام واهم قد رمى القمر

واخطأ رام واهم قد رمى القمر

A wayward man shot at us with delusion’s arrow, missing his mark.

He shot us with the arrow of illusion, missing

And a deluded archer missed—he had shot at the moon.

He who aims and imagines wrongly shot the moon