أين المبارز والمناضل

أين المبارز والمناضل

والمناجز والمقاتل

والمناجز والمقاتل

Where are the duelist and the contender,

Where are the warriors and fighters

and the challenger and the fighter?

And the brave and combatants?

أين المكاثر والمفاخر

أين المكاثر والمفاخر

والمكابر والمصاول

والمكابر والمصاول

Where are the rival in numbers and the boaster,

Where are the boasters and braggarts

and the overbearing one and the assailant?

And the obstinate and assailants?

أين المراوغ والمخاتل

أين المراوغ والمخاتل

والمطاول والمساجل

والمطاول والمساجل

Where are the dodger and the deceiver,

Where are the evasive and devious

and the contender for supremacy and the rival?

And the tenacious and disputants?

أين المدافع والبنادق

أين المدافع والبنادق

والعوامل والمناصل

والعوامل والمناصل

Where are the cannons and the rifles,

Where are the defenders and rifles

and the lances and the blades?

And the agents and swords?

في أيها هلك العدو

في أيها هلك العدو

وإن يكن معه جحافل

وإن يكن معه جحافل

By which of them did the enemy perish,

With these we destroy the enemy

even if he has legions with him?

Even if they come with legions

إنا سكتنا سبة

إنا سكتنا سبة

واليوم ذرّ بنا المقاول

واليوم ذرّ بنا المقاول

We were silent for a while;

We were silent from insults

and today the debater has risen among us.

But today builders have incited us

ولربما نطق المشو

ولربما نطق المشو

ف على المنابر وهو قائل

ف على المنابر وهو قائل

And often the adorned one has spoken

Perhaps the candles will speak

upon the pulpits, declaring:

From the pulpits as they say

تمضي الاواخر لا محا

تمضي الاواخر لا محا

لة مثلما مضت الاوائل

لة مثلما مضت الاوائل

The later ones inevitably pass away,

The endings go on, no stopping

just as the earlier ones passed.

Like the beginnings have passed

انا لنضرب بالسيو

انا لنضرب بالسيو

ف وبالدنانير الرواعل

ف وبالدنانير الرواعل

We indeed strike with swords

We will strike with swords

and with dinars advancing in ranks.

And golden coins, O nobles

هذي الخزائن عندنا

هذي الخزائن عندنا

وبها نسالم او نقاتل

وبها نسالم او نقاتل

These treasuries are in our keeping,

These treasures are with us

and with them we make peace or fight.

With them we make peace or fight

فهي السلاح لدى الوغى

فهي السلاح لدى الوغى

وهي الدروع لكل صائل

وهي الدروع لكل صائل

For they are weapons in battle,

They are weapons in turmoil

and shields against every assailant.

And shields against every assailant

وهي الوسائل للموا

وهي الوسائل للموا

صل والمفاز لكل آمل

صل والمفاز لكل آمل

And they are the means for those maintaining ties,

They are means to goals

and success for everyone who hopes.

And rewards for every hopeful

كم قد اذالت من مصو

كم قد اذالت من مصو

ن واستباحت من قبائل

ن واستباحت من قبائل

How many inviolate ones they have abased,

How many fortified places

and how many tribes they have pillaged!

And tribes they have looted

اودت بعزة تادرو

اودت بعزة تادرو

س وما اعد من المجادل

س وما اعد من المجادل

They laid low the might of Tadros

They humiliated proud Tadros

and the strongholds he had prepared.

And what armies he had rallied

يطوى لها وعر الجبا

يطوى لها وعر الجبا

ل كأنه سهل السواحل

ل كأنه سهل السواحل

For them, the mountains' rugged ground is folded away,

For them mountains bow down

as though it were the level coastal plain.

As if they were coasts and beaches

واذلت الهند التي

واذلت الهند التي

حشرت عساكرها بواسل

حشرت عساكرها بواسل

And they humbled India, which

And India which mobilized

mustered its armies of valiant men.

Its armies of heroes

والزنج خاضعة لها

والزنج خاضعة لها

وطغاتهم منها جوافل

وطغاتهم منها جوافل

And the Zanj are subject to them,

The Africans are subjected to them

and their tyrants flee from them in fright.

And their tyrants are like waves

لا يستوي من يخزن ال

لا يستوي من يخزن ال

دينار درءا للنوازل

دينار درءا للنوازل

Not equal are the one who stores away

Not equal are those who hoard

the dinar to ward off calamities

Wealth to ward off afflictions

ومبذر يرمي به

ومبذر يرمي به

في كل مفسدة يحاول

في كل مفسدة يحاول

and a squanderer who flings it

And spendthrifts who squander it

into every corrupt venture he pursues.

On every corruption they attempt

من رامنا فليبتدر

من رامنا فليبتدر

وانا له بالحتف كافل

وانا له بالحتف كافل

Whoever seeks to attack us, let him hasten;

Let he who challenges us

and I guarantee him death.

Be prepared, we grant perdition