Sol 6.1

  1. وطني الشامُ فهل فيهِ حِمى

    أو ضريحٌ للغريبِ التَّعِسِ

    Al-Sham is my homeland—is there refuge within it,

    Or a grave for the wretched stranger?

  2. فإذا لم أرَ فيهِ العَلما

    عربياً قلتُ يا قلبُ ايأس

    And if I see no flag there

    That is Arab, I say, 'O heart, despair.'

  3. أيها الزائرُ قِف بالعطنِ

    ثم سائل عن مصيرِ التعساء

    O visitor, stop at the watering place,

    Then ask about the fate of the wretched.

  4. عزَّةُ الملكِ وأنسُ الوطنِ

    ذهَبا بين صباحٍ ومساء

    The kingdom's glory and the comfort of home

    Both vanished between morning and evening.

  5. نبَتِ الشامُ بأهلِ الفطنِ

    والذين اغتَصَبُوها رؤساء

    Al-Sham has proved inhospitable to people of discernment,

    And those who usurped it are rulers.

  6. قد سَقينا الأرضَ دمعاً ودما

    وسَمَحنا بأعزِّ الأنفسِ

    We have watered the earth with tears and blood,

    And freely given the dearest lives.

  7. كيفَ لا تقضي أسى أو نَدَما

    بعد ذياك الخيالِ المؤنس

    How can you not die of sorrow or regret

    After that comforting vision?

  8. حبذا الماضي الذي كنّا عليهِ

    بينَ شكوى وعتابٍ ناقمين

    How dear the past in which we lived,

    Resentful amid complaint and reproach.

  9. يأسفُ الصبُّ الذي يَصبو إليهِ

    ويقولُ التركُ كانوا راحمين

    The lover who yearns for it grieves,

    And says, 'The Turks were merciful.'

  10. سلَّطَ العلجُ علينا جَحفَليهِ

    فرأينا منهُ شرَّ الظالمين

    The foreign brute unleashed his two armies upon us,

    And in him we saw the worst of tyrants.

  11. وُلِّي الأمرَ وصارَ الحكما

    فغَدَونا طعمةَ المفترسِ

    He was entrusted with authority and became the arbiter,

    So we became the predator's prey.

  12. إن رأى الشاكينَ أبدى صَمما

    ولهُ في الجسِّ سمعُ الفرس

    If he sees those who complain, he feigns deafness,

    Yet in spying he has a horse's hearing.

  13. عكَّرَ الأردنَّ خِسّان اليهود

    ومَشوا في ضفَّتَيهِ مَرَحا

    The scoundrels among the Jews muddied the Jordan,

    And strode exultantly along its two banks.

  14. وعلى الأرماسِ داسوا والمهود

    فبكينا وتغَنّوا فرَحا

    And trampled upon graves and cradles,

    So we wept while they sang for joy.

  15. زهقَ الحقُّ لبهتانِ الشهود

    ولهم قولٌ كسَيفٍ جَرَحا

    Truth perished through the witnesses' falsehood,

    And their words are like a sword that wounds.

  16. قد أذلُّوا العربيَّ المسلما

    ليهوديٍّ زنيمٍ شَرسِ

    They have humbled the Muslim Arab

    Before a baseborn, vicious Jew,

  17. ضامَهُ في المسجدِ الأقصى كما

    ضامَ عيسى وسطَ بيتِ المقدس

    Who oppressed him in al-Aqsa Mosque, just as

    He oppressed Jesus in the heart of Jerusalem.

  18. اليهوديُّ الجبانُ الغادرُ

    بسِلاحِ الإنكليزيِّ قَتَل

    The cowardly, treacherous Jew

    Killed with the Englishman's weapons.

  19. خَلفَهُ الجيشُ الكثيفُ القادرُ

    يصرمُ الحبلَ الذي منَّا انفتَل

    Behind him was the massed, mighty army,

    Severing the cord that we had twined.

  20. سَقطَ الليثُ الهَصُورُ الخادرُ

    فعَوى الثَّعلبُ والذئبُ خَتل

    The mighty lion in his lair fell,

    So the fox howled, and the wolf schemed.

  21. مَن لشعبٍ نفسَهُ قد ظَلما

    فمَشى في الجهلِ نحو المرمسِ

    Who will aid a people that has wronged itself,

    And so walked in ignorance toward the grave?

  22. إن شكا للظالمينَ الألما

    عالجوهُ بحرابِ الحرس

    If it complains of pain to the oppressors,

    They treat it with the guards' bayonets.

  23. عِج بوادي بَرَدَى ذاكَ الوسيم

    واسألِ الجنّاتِ عَن أزهارِها

    Turn aside to that lovely valley of Barada,

    And ask its gardens about their flowers.

  24. ضاقَت الفيحاءُ بالخَطبِ الجسيم

    والفرنسيسُ على أنهارها

    Al-Fayha is hemmed in by grievous calamity,

    And the French are along its rivers.

  25. دنَسوا طهرَ البوادي والنسيم

    واشتفى الفجَّارُ من أطهارِها

    They defiled the purity of the wilds and the breeze,

    And the wicked sated their spite on its pure people.

  26. جَوُّها من ظلمِهم قد أظلما

    وعلى الأرواحِ ثقلُ الحندسِ

    Its air has darkened from their oppression,

    And the weight of blackest night lies upon souls.

  27. لطَموا الحقَّ وداسوا الحرما

    وتعاطوا مترعاتِ الأكؤس

    They slapped truth and trampled what is sacred,

    And drank from brimming goblets.

  28. جندُنا استُشهد صَبراً وهوى

    عَلمُ الملكِ الذي ظلَّلنا

    Our troops were martyred in captivity, and down fell

    The kingdom's banner that had shaded us.

  29. نحنُ صَرعى بين جورٍ وجَوى

    نذكرُ العهدَ الذي علَّلنا

    We lie stricken between oppression and anguish;

    We remember the era that gave us solace.

  30. كلُّ ما في وَطَنٍ فيهِ الهوَى

    حَسَنٌ لكنهُ ليسَ لنا

    Everything in a homeland where love dwells

    Is beautiful, yet it is not ours.

  31. كم شهيدٍ صارَ فيهِ أعظُما

    ولمن أرداهُ صَدرُ المجلسِ

    Many a martyr has become bones there,

    While his killer holds the place of honor in the assembly.

  32. فترى الثكلى تُباكي الأيِّما

    حيثُ تلهو قينَةٌ في السندس

    So you see the bereaved mother weeping with the widow,

    Where a singing girl frolics in fine silk.

  33. رَوَّعَ العلجُ بناتِ العربِ

    في رياضٍ وقصورٍ أَمَّها

    The foreign brute terrified the daughters of the Arabs

    In gardens and palaces he had sought out.

  34. كم رأى الشاميُّ عند الهرب

    كاعباً عذراءَ تدعو أُمَّها

    How often, in flight, did the Syrian see

    A nubile virgin calling for her mother!

  35. قلبُهُ انشقَّ بحدّ الذَّرِب

    إذ رأَى الوردةَ شقَّت كمَّها

    His heart was cleft by the keen blade's edge

    When he saw the rose had torn her sleeve.

  36. من رأى مَدمَعَها والمبَسما

    في نقابٍ طاهرٍ لم يُلمَسِ

    Whoever saw her tears and smiling mouth

    Beneath a pure, untouched veil,

  37. قالَ أفدي دُرَراً أو أنجُما

    ظهَرَت في العقدِ أو في الغَلس

    Said, 'I would give my life for pearls or stars

    Revealed in a necklace or in the predawn gloom.'

  38. قُل لعلجٍ يَزدَهيهِ البَطرُ

    خفّفِ الوطءَ على هذي التُّرَب

    Say to a foreign brute puffed up with arrogance:

    Tread lightly upon this soil.

  39. من ثراها لي نسيمٌ عَطِرُ

    ولذكرى المجدِ يعزوني الطرب

    From its dust a fragrant breeze comes to me,

    And rapture links me to the memory of glory.

  40. وطني الشامُ وفيهِ الوطرُ

    عربيٌ أنا فليحيَ العرب

    Al-Sham is my homeland, and there lies my desire;

    I am an Arab—long live the Arabs!

  41. يا أخي الشاميُّ والخطبُ طما

    كن مع الحمسِ رفيقَ الأحمسِ

    O my Syrian brother, as calamity surges,

    With the valiant, be a valiant man's comrade;

  42. وإذا الدهرُ صفا وابتَسما

    كن مع الكيسى نديمَ الكيِّس

    And when time grows clear and smiles,

    With the wise, be a wise man's boon companion.

  43. هَدم الرومُ من العربِ صُروحا

    شيَّدُوها بقلوبٍ ورفات

    The Romans tore down the Arabs' lofty edifices,

    Which the Arabs had raised with hearts and mortal remains.

  44. أيُّ قلبٍ لا ترى فيه جروحا

    هي أدمى من جروحِ المرهفات

    In what heart do you not see wounds

    Bloodier than the wounds of keen-edged swords?

  45. فتَنشَّق من صَبا مكَّةَ روحا

    وادعُ أبناءَ الهُدى من عرفات

    So breathe in solace from Mecca's east wind,

    And summon the sons of guidance from Arafat.

  46. فترى حَولَ المقامِ الأمما

    تتشاكى في سوادِ المَلبسِ

    Then you will see the nations around the Maqam,

    Sharing their sorrows, dressed in black.

  47. ربما الشَّرقُ التظى واضطَرما

    من لظى النَّفسِ وحَرِّ النَّفس

    Perhaps the East will blaze and flare

    From the soul's fire and the heat of breath.