Sol 6.1

  1. ولم يفِ الاتحاديون اذ حكموا

    بالوعد أن يعدلوا في الحكم بل ظلموا

    The Unionists, when they ruled, were not true

    To their promise of justice in government; instead, they oppressed.

  2. وخالفوا خطةً كانوا لها رسموا

    وحوَّلوا ما رعاياهم بهِ نعموا

    They violated a plan they had drawn up,

    And changed what had brought their subjects ease

  3. الى شقاءٍ بأن ينتابهم حتموا

    وبعدما أعلنوا الدستور ما لبثوا

    Into misery, which they decreed should befall them.

    And after proclaiming the constitution, they wasted no time

  4. أنِ استبدُّوا وفي أيمانهم حنثوا

    ولم يصونوا حقوق الشعب بل عبثوا

    In becoming despots and breaking their oaths.

    They did not safeguard the people's rights; instead, they tampered

  5. بها وعهد التساوي بيننا نكثوا

    كأنهُ لم يكن عهد ولا ذممُ

    With them, and broke the covenant of equality among us,

    As though there had been neither covenant nor binding pledges.

  6. منُّوا علينا كثيراً أنهم خلعوا

    عبد الحميد وعنا نيرهُ نزعوا

    They often held it over us that they had deposed

    Abd al-Hamid and removed his yoke from us,

  7. حريةً وإخاءً بيننا وضعوا

    وفي عطاءِ مساواةٍ لنا شرعوا

    Established freedom and brotherhood among us,

    And begun granting us equality,

  8. حتى تظللنا الخيرات والنعمُ

    بهم وثقنا وأخلصنا لهم وعلى

    So that blessings and bounties might shade us.

    We trusted them and were loyal to them, and upon

  9. إِنجاز ما وعدونا كلنا أتكلا

    لكننا لم نجد في ما أتوا عملا

    The fulfillment of their promises we all relied.

    But in what they did we found no deed

  10. مؤيداً قولهم بل خيبوا الأملا

    وما بنينا على دستورهم هدموا

    To bear out their words; instead, they dashed our hopes.

    And they demolished what we had built upon their constitution.

  11. بخلع عبدالحميد الحيفض ما اقتلعوا

    بل معهُ أضعافهُ في أرضنا زرعوا

    By deposing Abd al-Hamid, they did not uproot oppression,

    But planted many times its like alongside it in our land.

  12. تفننوا فيهِ ما شاؤوا بل اخترعوا

    لهُ أساليب مكرٍ كلها بدعُ

    They practiced every art of it they pleased; indeed, they invented

    Ways of deceit for it, all novel contrivances.

  13. والله منهم عليها سوف ينتقمُ

    وكان أفضع اثم بابهُ فتحوا

    And God will take vengeance on them for those deeds.

    And the most atrocious sin whose door they opened

  14. تلك الدماءَ التي سفحاً لها سفحوا

    أعني دما الارمن القوم الألى ذُبحوا

    Was that blood which they poured out in slaughter:

    I mean the Armenians' blood—the people who were slaughtered

  15. ذبحَ النعاج وما خانوا ولا اجترحوا

    سوا براءتهم مما به اتهموا

    Like ewes, though they neither betrayed nor committed any crime

    Except their innocence of the charges brought against them.

  16. بسفكها اتهموا عبدالحميد ومن

    معه فصدَّقهم من في نهاه وهَنَ

    They blamed Abd al-Hamid for shedding it, and those

    With him; those whose judgment was weak believed them.

  17. والله يعلم والاملاك تشهد أن

    عبدالحميد بعيد الحقيقة عن

    And God knows, and the angels bear witness, that

    Abd al-Hamid is, in truth, far removed from it.

  18. وبالرزايا منوا كالارمن العربا

    وأرهقوهم فذاقوا الويل والحربا

    They afflicted the Arabs with calamities, as they did the Armenians.

    And oppressed them, so they tasted woe and destitution.

  19. والعُربُ اشرفُ أما منهم وأيا

    في عهد دولتهم هذي غدوا ذنبا

    And the Arabs are nobler than they in maternal and [apparently paternal] descent,

    Yet under the rule of this state of theirs, they became a tail

  20. لشرّ رأسٍ تحاشت حملهُ البهمُ

    بنعمة العربِ الاتراكُ قد كفروا

    To the vilest head, which even beasts shunned bearing.

    The Turks were ungrateful for the Arabs' bounty,

  21. وفضلهم غمطوا عمداً فما ذكروا

    وفي بني جنسهم إحسانَهم حصروا

    And deliberately slighted their merit, leaving it unmentioned.

    They confined their benevolence to those of their own stock,

  22. وفي سواهم تمشى منهم الضررُ

    كما تمشى بجسم المدنف السقمُ

    While their harm spread through everyone else

    As sickness spreads through an invalid's body.

  23. ومنذ ما الحرب مع المانيا دخلوا

    وما لهم ناقة فيها ولاجملُ

    And from the time they entered the war alongside Germany,

    Though they had neither she-camel nor he-camel in it,

  24. لبَّاهم العُرب والهيجاء تشتعلُ

    لما دعوهم بالأرواح ما بخلوا

    The Arabs answered their call as the battle blazed.

    When summoned, they did not begrudge their lives,

  25. ولجَّها معهُم لما طما اقتحموا

    لكنهم وسعير الحرب يلتهبُ

    And, as its deep sea swelled, they plunged into it with them.

    Yet, while the blaze of war raged

  26. والعربُ معهم الى حوماتها وثبوا

    لم يتقوا ربهم فيهم كما يجبُ

    And the Arabs leapt with them into its battlefields,

    They did not fear their Lord in treating them, as they should.

  27. وقد نسوا أو تناسوا أنهم عربُ

    لا يصبرون على من حقهم هضموا

    They had forgotten—or feigned forgetting—that these were Arabs,

    Who do not endure those who infringe their rights.

  28. في السلم ما عدلوا فينا ولا رفقوا

    وفي الوغى جندهم عن جندنا فرقوا

    In peace they treated us neither justly nor gently,

    And in battle they separated their soldiers from ours.

  29. والف عذرٍ لهم في ضيمنا اختلقوا

    وكم على يدهم منا نفوا فشقوا

    They invented a thousand excuses to justify their oppression of us.

    And how many of us they exiled, leaving them wretched;

  30. وكم كم في غيابات السجون رمُوا

    وعم سوريةَ الجورُ الذي ارتكبوا

    And how many, how many they flung into the dark depths of prisons!

    The injustice they committed engulfed Syria,

  31. فضجت القدسُ منه واشتكت حلبُ

    وأرضها بدما أبنائها خضبوا

    So Jerusalem cried out against it, and Aleppo complained.

    They dyed its soil with the blood of its sons,

  32. حتى المشانق في ساحاتها نصبوا

    وكم شهيد عليها عنقهُ قصموا

    And even erected gallows in its squares.

    And how many a martyr's neck they broke upon them!

  33. ذا بعض ما رهُ أهل الشام عرا

    به اجتزأتُ عن التطويل مختصرا

    This is some of what [unclear] befell the people of al-Sham.

    With this I have contented myself, choosing brevity over a long account.

  34. لكنه ذاع بين الناس منتشرا

    حتى به سمعت أم القرى خبرا

    But it spread widely among the people,

    Until Umm al-Qura heard news of it.

  35. فأكبرتهُ وضجَّ البيت والحرمُ

    اذ ذاك هب الحسين الاشرفُ ابن علي

    She was appalled by it, and the House and Sanctuary cried out.

    Then the most noble al-Husayn, son of Ali, rose,

  36. يذودُ عن قومه بالبيضِ والأسلِ

    وصاح في تركيا يا ضيفنُ ارتحلِ

    Defending his people with gleaming swords and spears.

    And he cried out to Turkey: 'Uninvited guest, depart

  37. عنا ويا ظلها ومن أرضنا انتقلِ

    واذهب الى حيث ألقت شاعك العدمث

    From us; and you, her shadow, move away from our land,

    And go where [unclear] has cast your [unclear].'

  38. وكرَّ أشبالهُ معهُ وما زأروا

    الا اليهم حجازيوهم ابتدروا

    His lion-cubs charged with him; whenever they roared,

    Their Hijazis rushed to them.

  39. والحربَ شبوا على الاتراك فانتصروا

    وطاردوهمُ حتى عقدهم نثروا

    They kindled war against the Turks and prevailed,

    And pursued them until they scattered their necklace's beads

  40. من أرضهم وعرى استئثارهم فصموا

    وان هذي لأسمى نهضةٍ ثلجت

    Out of their land, and severed the bonds of their monopoly on power.

    And this is indeed the noblest uprising, cooling

  41. لها صدور بني قحطانَ وابتهجت

    بها ألوفُ نفوس أنقذت ونجت

    The breasts of Qahtan's sons and gladdening

    Thousands of souls rescued and saved through it.

  42. وألسن الخلق طراً بالثنا لهجت

    على الالى الدين والدنيا بها خدموا

    And all mankind's tongues kept voicing praise

    Of those who, through it, served religion and worldly life.

  43. وقبلها أرجف الاتراك واختلفوا

    ما أنشأ الخوف في الاسلام لو صدقوا

    Before it, the Turks spread alarm and [apparently: fabricated]

    What would have stirred fear in Islam, had they spoken truth.

  44. قالوا لنا الحلفا سراً قد اتفقوا

    على مناهظة الاسلام بل طفقوا

    They told us: 'The Allies have secretly agreed

    To oppose Islam; indeed, they have begun

  45. يسعون في ما على إجرائهِ عزموا

    وعندما ابن النبي انضم للحلفا

    Pursuing what they have resolved to carry out.'

    And when the Prophet's descendant joined the Allies

  46. وانحاز كذب هذا الافترا ونفى

    ومسلمو الشرق كلٌ منهمُ عرفا

    And took their side, he exposed this fabrication and denied it.

    And the Muslims of the East, every one of them, recognized

  47. هذا النفاق فما بالاهُ بل صدفا

    عن الوشاة ولم يعبأ بما رجموا

    This hypocrisy, gave it no heed, and instead turned away

    From the slanderers, heedless of the accusations they hurled.

  48. ولم ير الاتحاديون ما نشدوا

    بل شرّ ما زرعوهُ بيننا حصدوا

    The Unionists did not see what they had sought;

    Instead, they reaped the worst of what they had sown among us.

  49. تفريقنا طلبوا لكنهم وجدوا

    منا اتفاقاً عليهم عكس ما قصدوا

    They sought to divide us, but found

    Us united against them—the opposite of their intent.

  50. وبئس منقلب القوم الألى ظلموا

    And wretched is the end of the people who oppressed!