1. حَيِّ العُروبةَ آساداً وأشبالاً

    واضِربْ لها من عِظاتِ الدّهرِ أمثالا

    Hail Arabhood—lions and cubs alike—

    And set before her examples from time’s admonitions.

  2. هل كان في الأرضِ من أعلامِها علمٌ

    مَالَتْ جَوانِبُها فانحطَّ أو مالا

    Was there on earth a single banner of hers

    That sank or swayed when the earth’s flanks swayed?

  3. وأيُّ مُلكٍ رَمَتْهُ في مَعَاقِلهِ

    بِراجفٍ من عَوادِيها فَما زَالا

    And what kingdom, struck by her in its strongholds

    With a quake of her onslaughts, did not vanish?

  4. رسا على حَدَثَانِ الدّهرِ حائِطُها

    فما اتَّقَى عاصِفاً أو خَافَ زِلزالا

    Her wall stood firm against the vicissitudes of time,

    So it shrank from no tempest and feared no earthquake.

  5. بني العُروبةِ أنتمْ هَا هُنا رُسُلٌ

    تقضُون للضَّادِ أوطاراً وآمالا

    Sons of Arabhood, you are messengers here,

    Fulfilling wishes and hopes for the tongue of ḍād.

  6. رِدُوا المناهِلَ من عِلمٍ ومن أدبٍ

    يجري الهوى فيهما والحبُّ سَلْسَالا

    Come to the wellsprings of knowledge and literature;

    In both, passion and love flow sweet and clear.

  7. هِيَ الكنانةُ والأَعْراقُ واشِجةٌ

    لن تُعْدَمُوا وطناً فيها ولا آلا

    She is al-Kinana—the Quiver—and bloodlines are intertwined;

    You will lack neither a homeland within her nor kinfolk.

  8. أَنتُمْ لها أَمَلٌ تَرْعَاهُ سَاهِرةً

    فما تنامُ ولا تألوه إقبالا

    You are her hope, which she watches over sleeplessly;

    She never sleeps, nor stints her devotion to it.

  9. أدُّوا رِسالَتَها واقْضُوا لُبانَتَها

    وامْضُوا سِراعاً إلى الغاباتِ أرسالا

    Deliver her message and fulfill her longing,

    And go swiftly to the forests in successive bands.

  10. دَمُ العُروبةِ في الآفاقِ ما بَرِحَتْ

    تَجرِي شآبيبُه سَحّاً وتهطالا

    The blood of Arabhood across the horizons has never ceased

    To flow in showers, gushing and pouring down.

  11. هو الحياةُ فَصُونوهُ على يدكم

    مِنْ أنْ يَسيلَ كفاكم منه ما سالا

    It is life: safeguard it, lest at your hands

    It be spilled; enough of it has already flowed.

  12. مَنْ لي بها هِمَماً إن هِجْتُها بَعَثَتْ

    من قَومنا أُمَماً مَرَّتْ وأجيالا

    Who will grant me such aspirations that, if I stir them, will revive

    Bygone nations and generations of our people?

  13. بني العُروبةِ رَامَ القولَ شاعِرُكم

    فما اسْتطَاعَ ولا أرضَاهُ ما قالا

    Sons of Arabhood, your poet sought to speak,

    But he could not, nor did what he said satisfy him.

  14. أَوهْىَ قُوايَ وهَدَّ اليومَ من هِمَمي

    داءٌ أراهُ شديدَ الفَتْكِ قتّالا

    My strength has been weakened, and some of my resolve shattered today,

    By an illness I find fiercely destructive and deadly.

  15. عيشُ الفَتى مُدّةٌ تمضِي على قَدَرٍ

    والعمرُ لابُدَّ مطويٌّ وإن طالا

    A young man’s life is a span that passes as fate decrees,

    And a lifetime is inevitably folded up, however long it lasts.

  16. إنْ قَالَ قائلُكم ما كان أكْرَمَهُ

    لو زادنا زِدْتُكم حُبَّا وإجلالا

    If one of you says, ‘How generous he would have been

    Had he given us more!’—I shall give you more love and reverence.