يُراد بِنا مسخ ما خطه

يُراد بِنا مسخ ما خطه

يراع وَجادَت به محبره

يراع وَجادَت به محبره

They mean to subject us to the distortion of what

They intend for us the distortion of what was inscribed

What was designed for us is disfigured

a reed pen inscribed, its inkwell flowing freely with it.

By a reed pen and freely bestowed by an inkwell.

A shepherd tended it with his pen

فَلا كانَ يوم نعيش به

فَلا كانَ يوم نعيش به

وَتونس آلت لمستعمره

وَتونس آلت لمستعمره

May there never be a day that we live to see

May there never be a day we live through

So the day we lived in it would not come

Tunisia reduced to a colony.

While Tunisia has become a colony.

And the tool became for the colonizer to enjoy