سلطانُنَا اليومَ طفلٌ والأكابرُ في

سلطانُنَا اليومَ طفلٌ والأكابرُ في

خِلْفٍ وبينهُم الشيطانُ قَدْ نزغا

خِلْفٍ وبينهُم الشيطانُ قَدْ نزغا

Our sultan today is a child, and the grandees are in

Our sultan today is a child, and the elders are behind

discord; among them Satan has stirred up strife.

Him, with the devil inciting between them.

فكيفَ يطمعُ مَنْ مسَّتْهُ مظلمَةٌ

فكيفَ يطمعُ مَنْ مسَّتْهُ مظلمَةٌ

أَنْ يبلغَ السُّؤْلَ والسلطانُ ما بلغا

أَنْ يبلغَ السُّؤْلَ والسلطانُ ما بلغا

So how can one afflicted by injustice hope

So how can one touched by darkness hope

to attain his wish, when the sultan has not attained maturity?

To attain what the sultan and his elders have not reached?