أين الشعور الحي والوجدان

أين الشعور الحي والوجدان

بل أين أين الدين والأيمان

بل أين أين الدين والأيمان

Where are living feeling and conscience?

Where is the living conscience and passion

Rather, where—where are religion and faith?

Rather, where, where are religion and faith

يا أمة كانت ورائدها الهدى

يا أمة كانت ورائدها الهدى

وسبيلها ما خطط القرآن

وسبيلها ما خطط القرآن

O nation whose guide was right guidance,

O nation that was guided by guidance

And whose path was what the Qur'an laid out,

And its path what the Qur'an has outlined

أولت جهاد النفس أكبر همه

أولت جهاد النفس أكبر همه

وقضت على ما شيد الشيطان

وقضت على ما شيد الشيطان

It made the struggle against the self its foremost concern,

It gave the utmost importance to the jihad of the self

And destroyed what Satan had built.

And eliminated what Satan has erected

وبنت على صرح العدالة دولة

وبنت على صرح العدالة دولة

فيها تساوى العبد والسلطان

فيها تساوى العبد والسلطان

And built a state upon the edifice of justice,

And built on the pillars of justice a state

Where slave and ruler were equal.

In which the slave and the sultan are equal

ومضت ونصر الله يقدم زحفه

ومضت ونصر الله يقدم زحفه

لم يثنها فرس ولا رومان

لم يثنها فرس ولا رومان

And it marched on, God's aid leading its advance,

And it went on and God's victory advanced its march

Neither Persians nor Romans turned it back.

Undeterred by Persian or Roman

أنى اتجهت رأيت راية أحمد

أنى اتجهت رأيت راية أحمد

خفاقة تحدو بها الشجعان

خفاقة تحدو بها الشجعان

Wherever you turned, you saw Ahmad's banner,

Wherever I looked I saw Ahmad's banner

Fluttering, as the brave urged it onward.

Fluttering, with the brave flocking around it

وشعارهم الله أكبر كلم

وشعارهم الله أكبر كلم

دوى تهاوى ما بنى الطغيان

دوى تهاوى ما بنى الطغيان

And their watchword was 'God is greatest'—words

And their motto is God is Great, a word

That thundered; what tyranny had built came crashing down.

That thundered and made tyranny crumble

عملوا بما أمروا لصالح دينهم

عملوا بما أمروا لصالح دينهم

طمعا ليرضى عنهم الرحمن

طمعا ليرضى عنهم الرحمن

They acted as commanded, for the good of their religion,

They did as they were ordered for the good of their religion

Hoping that the Most Merciful would be pleased with them.

Hoping for the Most Merciful to be pleased with them

كانوا بهذا الدين أفضل أمة

كانوا بهذا الدين أفضل أمة

وأعف من عرفتهم البلدان

وأعف من عرفتهم البلدان

Through this religion, they were the finest nation,

With this religion they were the best of nations

And the most chaste people the lands had known.

And the gentlest of those known by the countries

حتى إذا ابتعد الكثير سفاهة

حتى إذا ابتعد الكثير سفاهة

عن دينه ذل الكثير وهانوا

عن دينه ذل الكثير وهانوا

Until, when many foolishly strayed

Until when many were foolishly distant

From their religion, many were humiliated and brought low.

From their religion, many were humiliated and disgraced

وتحكم الأشرار في أوطانهم

وتحكم الأشرار في أوطانهم

من بعد ما لفظتهم الأوطان

من بعد ما لفظتهم الأوطان

And the wicked took control of their homelands,

And villains took over their homelands

After those homelands had cast them out.

After their homelands had spat them out

أنا من كتاب الله أعلم أنن

أنا من كتاب الله أعلم أنن

لو لم نغير ما تغير شان

لو لم نغير ما تغير شان

I know from God's Book that,

I know from the book of God that if

Had we not changed, our condition would not have changed.

We do not change what has changed our status

ولما تحكمت اليهود بقدسن

ولما تحكمت اليهود بقدسن

ولما استبد بقهرنا دايان

ولما استبد بقهرنا دايان

Nor would the Jews have ruled over our Jerusalem,

And if the Jews had not taken over our Jerusalem

Nor would Dayan have tyrannically subjugated us.

And if Dayan had not subjugated us with his tyranny

ما أحرقوا الأقصى ولكن دنسو

ما أحرقوا الأقصى ولكن دنسو

قدسية الأقصى فحل هوان

قدسية الأقصى فحل هوان

They did not burn Al-Aqsa, but desecrated

They would not have burned Al-Aqsa but they defiled

Al-Aqsa's sanctity; thus humiliation befell

The sanctity of Al-Aqsa and so disgrace befell

بالمسلمين على اختلاف ديارهم

بالمسلمين على اختلاف ديارهم

والناطقين الضاد أنى كانوا

والناطقين الضاد أنى كانوا

Muslims across their varied homelands,

The Muslims no matter where their homes are

And speakers of the tongue of ḍād, wherever they were.

And those who speak the dialect of Dad wherever they were

أنا لا أصدق بل أصدق ما جرى

أنا لا أصدق بل أصدق ما جرى

والله إني تائه حيران

والله إني تائه حيران

I do not believe it—no, I do believe what happened.

I do not believe, rather I believe what has happened

By God, I am lost and bewildered.

By God I am lost and confused

أنا منذ نكبتنا أتعظت وإنم

أنا منذ نكبتنا أتعظت وإنم

لم يتعظ ملك ولا سلطان

لم يتعظ ملك ولا سلطان

I have taken heed since our calamity, yet

Since our setback I have learned while

Neither king nor ruler has taken heed.

Neither king nor sultan has learned