رُوَيدَكَ حَتّى يَخفِقَ العَلَمانِ

رُوَيدَكَ حَتّى يَخفِقَ العَلَمانِ

وَتَنظُرَ ما يَجري بِهِ الفَتَيانِ

وَتَنظُرَ ما يَجري بِهِ الفَتَيانِ

Take your time until the two flags flutter,

Hold your horses till the flags flutter

and see what the two young men bring about.

And watch what the young men will make happen

فَما مِصرُ كَالسودانِ لُقمَةُ جائِعٍ

فَما مِصرُ كَالسودانِ لُقمَةُ جائِعٍ

وَلَكِنَّها مَرهونَةٌ لِأَوانِ

وَلَكِنَّها مَرهونَةٌ لِأَوانِ

For Egypt is not, like Sudan, a hungry man's morsel,

For Egypt is not morsels for the hungry, like Sudan

but she is held in pledge for a time.

But rather it is mortgaged for eras

دَعاني وَما أَرجَفتُما بِاِحتِمالِهِ

دَعاني وَما أَرجَفتُما بِاِحتِمالِهِ

فَإِنِّ بِمَكرِ القَومِ شِقُّ زَماني

فَإِنِّ بِمَكرِ القَومِ شِقُّ زَماني

Leave me with the prospect you two have spread alarming rumors about,

They called me but I was not shaken to endure them

for, in discerning these people's guile, I am my age's Shiqq.

For their people's cunning splits my time

أَرى مِصرَ وَالسودانَ وَالهِندَ واحِداً

أَرى مِصرَ وَالسودانَ وَالهِندَ واحِداً

بِها اللُردُ وَالفيكُنتُ يَستَبِقانِ

بِها اللُردُ وَالفيكُنتُ يَستَبِقانِ

I see Egypt, Sudan, and India as one—

I see Egypt, Sudan and India as one

there the Lord and the Viscount race one another.

Where Lourd and Vaughan race

وَأَكبَرُ ظَنّي أَنَّ يَومَ جَلائِهِم

وَأَكبَرُ ظَنّي أَنَّ يَومَ جَلائِهِم

وَيَومَ نُشورِ الخَلقِ مُقتَرِنانِ

وَيَومَ نُشورِ الخَلقِ مُقتَرِنانِ

And I think it most likely that the day of their withdrawal

And my greatest expectation is that their day of clarity

and the day of creation's resurrection will coincide.

And day of resurrection of creation are coupled

إِذا غاضَتِ الأَمواهُ مِن كُلِّ مُزبِدٍ

إِذا غاضَتِ الأَمواهُ مِن كُلِّ مُزبِدٍ

وَخَرَّت بُروجُ الرَجمِ لِلحَدَثانِ

وَخَرَّت بُروجُ الرَجمِ لِلحَدَثانِ

When the waters drain away from every foaming sea,

When the waters recede from every surging wave

and the towers of bombardment fall to time's ravages,

And the mansions of shooting stars fall for the young

وَعادَ زَمانُ السَمهَرِيِّ وَرَبِّهِ

وَعادَ زَمانُ السَمهَرِيِّ وَرَبِّهِ

وَحُكِّمَ في الهَيجاءِ كُلُّ يَماني

وَحُكِّمَ في الهَيجاءِ كُلُّ يَماني

and the age of the Samhari spear and its wielder returns,

And era of Al-Samhari and his Lord returns

and every Yemeni sword is made arbiter in battle—

And every Yemini is judged in Heyja

هُناكَ اِذكُرا يَومَ الجَلاءِ وَنَبِّها

هُناكَ اِذكُرا يَومَ الجَلاءِ وَنَبِّها

نِياماً عَلَيهِم يَندُبُ الهَرَمانِ

نِياماً عَلَيهِم يَندُبُ الهَرَمانِ

then remember, you two, the day of withdrawal, and awaken

There, recall day of relief and awaken

sleepers over whom the two pyramids lament.

The slumbering elders who mourn