فَدَتْكَ الملوكُ وأيّامُهَا

فَدَتْكَ الملوكُ وأيّامُهَا

ودام لنقضِكَ إِبْرامُهَا

ودام لنقضِكَ إِبْرامُهَا

May kings and their days be your ransom.

Kings have ransomed you, and their days,

And may their firm resolves endure for you to undo.

And the covenants of demolishing you have lasted,

وزَلَّتْ لعَيْنِك أَقدامُهَا

وزَلَّتْ لعَيْنِك أَقدامُهَا

وزال لبطشك إِقدامُهَا

وزال لبطشك إِقدامُهَا

And may their feet stumble beneath your gaze.

And for your eyes their feet have slipped,

And may their boldness vanish before your onslaught.

And for your might their courage has slipped.

ولو لم تُسَلَّم إليك القلوبُ

ولو لم تُسَلَّم إليك القلوبُ

هواها لما صحّ إسلامُهَا

هواها لما صحّ إسلامُهَا

And had the hearts not been surrendered to you

And if hearts had not surrendered to you,

in their love, their Islam would not be sound.

Their passion would not have made them Muslim.

أيا محييَ العدل لمّا نَعاهُ

أيا محييَ العدل لمّا نَعاهُ

أَيامَى البَرايا وَأَيتامهَا

أَيامَى البَرايا وَأَيتامهَا

O reviver of justice, when its death was proclaimed

O reviver of justice when it was forgotten,

by humankind's widows and its orphans;

Of the bereft lands and their orphans.

ومستنقِذَ الدين من أُمَّةٍ

ومستنقِذَ الدين من أُمَّةٍ

أزال المحاريبَ أصنامُهَا

أزال المحاريبَ أصنامُهَا

and rescuer of the faith from a people

And savior of the religion from a nation,

whose idols swept away the prayer niches:

That erased the idols of its shrines.

دَلِفْتَ لها تقتفيك الأُسُودُ

دَلِفْتَ لها تقتفيك الأُسُودُ

والبيضُ والسُّمرُ آجامُهَا

والبيضُ والسُّمرُ آجامُهَا

you advanced against it, the lions following your tracks,

You approached it, as lions, white and black,

and bright swords and dark spears were their thickets.

And brown follow you, their bold leader.

جزرتَ جزيرتها بالسُّيُو

جزرتَ جزيرتها بالسُّيُو

فِ حتى تشاءَمَها شامُهَا

فِ حتى تشاءَمَها شامُهَا

You slaughtered its Jazira with swords,

You harvested its peninsula with swords,

until its Syria deemed it ill-omened.

Until its evening hated its morning.

وصارت عوارِيُّ أكنافه

وصارت عوارِيُّ أكنافه

مَتى شِئتَ أَرخص مُسْتامهَا

مَتى شِئتَ أَرخص مُسْتامهَا

And the borrowed holdings of its borderlands became,

And the vulnerable parts of its sides,

whenever you wished, the cheapest of its wares on offer.

Became the cheapest to buy, when you wished.