يا أمُّ إ سقطتْ أمامَكِ أمَّةٌ

يا أمُّ إ سقطتْ أمامَكِ أمَّةٌ

برصاصِ مأفونٍ وخِنْجرِ أبْلهِ

برصاصِ مأفونٍ وخِنْجرِ أبْلهِ

O mother—[unclear fragment]—a nation has fallen before you,

O mother, if a nation has fallen before you

By a madman's bullets and a fool's dagger.

By cursed bullets and a foolish dagger,

لا تأسفي لا تحْزني بلْ رَدِّدي

لا تأسفي لا تحْزني بلْ رَدِّدي

يا أرضُ تيهي بالحضارةِ وازدهي

يا أرضُ تيهي بالحضارةِ وازدهي

Do not lament, do not grieve; rather, repeat:

Do not grieve or be sad, but keep repeating:

O earth, take pride in civilization and exult!

O land, lost in civilization, be glorious!

هذا زمانٌ ساقنا قدَرٌ لكي

هذا زمانٌ ساقنا قدَرٌ لكي

نتجرَّعَ الموتَ الزُّؤامَ بحِضْنِهِ

نتجرَّعَ الموتَ الزُّؤامَ بحِضْنِهِ

This is an age; fate has driven us so that

This is an age that fate has destined for us

We may gulp down swift, fatal death in its embrace.

To drink death's bitter cup in its embrace.

أقطابهُ شطَحَتْ بِهِمْ أحلامُهُمْ

أقطابهُ شطَحَتْ بِهِمْ أحلامُهُمْ

فَرَموا بنا من عَدْلِهمْ في مَهْمَهِ

فَرَموا بنا من عَدْلِهمْ في مَهْمَهِ

Its leaders were carried wildly astray by their dreams,

Its tyrants' dreams have led them astray

So, out of their justice, they cast us into a trackless desert.

And they have thrown us from their justice into oblivion.