يا " اندونوسُ " إن استماتَ بَنوكِ

يا " اندونوسُ " إن استماتَ بَنوكِ

فالحربُ أمُّكِ والكفاحُ ابوكِ

فالحربُ أمُّكِ والكفاحُ ابوكِ

O Indonesia, if your sons fight to the death,

O Indonesia, if your children are steadfast

then war is your mother and struggle your father.

Then war is their mother, and struggle their father

ولديكِ تاريخٌ على صَفَحاتِه

ولديكِ تاريخٌ على صَفَحاتِه

أرَجٌ يضُوعُ من الدم المسفوك

أرَجٌ يضُوعُ من الدم المسفوك

And you have a history upon whose pages

You have a history, on its pages

a fragrance wafts from spilled blood.

A fragrance diffuses, from spilled blood

وكأنَّ من ألَقِ الضُحى ورفيفِه

وكأنَّ من ألَقِ الضُحى ورفيفِه

نُوراً يُشِعُّ عليه من واديك

نُوراً يُشِعُّ عليه من واديك

And it is as though, from the forenoon’s radiance and shimmer,

As if from the radiance of dawn and its murmur

a light shines upon it from your valley.

A light shines upon it, from your valleys

يا " بنتَ " ثانيةِ الجنان بما اشتَهتْ

يا " بنتَ " ثانيةِ الجنان بما اشتَهتْ

نَفْسٌ ، وما رَمَتِ الطبيعةُ فيك

نَفْسٌ ، وما رَمَتِ الطبيعةُ فيك

O daughter of a second paradise, with all that is desired

O Java, the second of Edens, with what

by a soul, and all that nature has cast into you,

A soul desires, and what nature has poured into you

وبما تسيلُ ظهورُها وبطونُها

وبما تسيلُ ظهورُها وبطونُها

بالتِبْرِ من متذوِّبٍ وسَبيك

بالتِبْرِ من متذوِّبٍ وسَبيك

and with its surfaces and depths flowing

With what flows down its hills and valleys

with gold, molten and cast in ingots,

Of melted tin and alloy

بالحاشِد الملتَفِّ منك إذا دَجى

بالحاشِد الملتَفِّ منك إذا دَجى

والضاحكِ العُريانِ من " ضاحيك "

والضاحكِ العُريانِ من " ضاحيك "

with your dense, entwined growth when it darkens,

With the rugged, twisted around you at dusk

and the laughing, bare reaches of your sunlit land—

And the naked, laughing from your shores

فاءت على المستعمرينَ ظلالُها

فاءت على المستعمرينَ ظلالُها

وعلى مليكاتٍ لهم ومُلوك

وعلى مليكاتٍ لهم ومُلوك

its shadows have spread back over the colonizers,

Its shadows have come upon the colonists

and over their queens and kings.

And their queens and kings

يا بنتَ ذاك و " أمَّ " كلِّ مغرِّف

يا بنتَ ذاك و " أمَّ " كلِّ مغرِّف

في بُؤسه ومُجوَّعٍ صُعلوك

في بُؤسه ومُجوَّعٍ صُعلوك

O daughter of all that, and mother of every man scooping

O mother of each grabber

amid his misery, and every starving pauper;

Wretched in his misery and enslaved urchin

يا أمَّ كلِّ مُشرَّدٍ عن أهله

يا أمَّ كلِّ مُشرَّدٍ عن أهله

وُهِبَ الجنانَ وعاش كالمملوك

وُهِبَ الجنانَ وعاش كالمملوك

O mother of everyone driven from his family,

O mother of each outcast from his people

who was granted paradise and lived like a slave;

Who was granted heavens and lived like a slave

بمن " الجهادُ " يَليق ان لم ينتظِمْ

بمن " الجهادُ " يَليق ان لم ينتظِمْ

تاجاً تَليق به رؤوسُ ذَويك

تاجاً تَليق به رؤوسُ ذَويك

Whom does the struggle befit, if it does not take shape

To whom does jihad befit if not ordered

as a crown befitting the heads of your people?

A crown befitting the heads of your people

في كل قَبر من قُبورك طائفٌ

في كل قَبر من قُبورك طائفٌ

يمشي إليك ، وصارخٌ يدعوك

يمشي إليك ، وصارخٌ يدعوك

In every grave among your graves is a wandering spirit,

In each of your graves is a specter

walking toward you, and a crier calling you,

Walking to you, and a screamer calling you

ليشُُدَّ حاضرَك المضمَّخَ بالدِما

ليشُُدَّ حاضرَك المضمَّخَ بالدِما

بالموَجعِ الأسيانِ من ماضيك

بالموَجعِ الأسيانِ من ماضيك

to bind your present, steeped in blood,

To bolster your present bloodied

to the aching, sorrowful part of your past.

With the painful lamenting of your past

ومن الطبيعةِ عن بنيكِ مُدافعٌ

ومن الطبيعةِ عن بنيكِ مُدافعٌ

أن يأخذوا منك الذي تُعطيك

أن يأخذوا منك الذي تُعطيك

And from nature comes a defender of your sons,

And from nature defending your children

that they may take from you what she gives you.

To take from you what you give them

تأبى المروءةُ ان تُزقَّي غيرَهم

تأبى المروءةُ ان تُزقَّي غيرَهم

اذ يُحرَمون مُجاجةً من فيك

اذ يُحرَمون مُجاجةً من فيك

Honor forbids you to feed others from your mouth,

Manliness refuses to be torn by others

while they are denied even a mouthful from your mouth.

When they are deprived of craving from you

يا " اندنوسُ " ! وفي الخلائقِ شركة

يا " اندنوسُ " ! وفي الخلائقِ شركة

لاشيءَ غير الله دونَ شريك

لاشيءَ غير الله دونَ شريك

O Indonesia! Among created beings there is partnership:

O Indonesia! And for creatures is partnership

nothing but God is without a partner.

Nothing but Allah without partner

اصلَوْكِ ما الشرقُ اصطَلى بجحيمهِ

اصلَوْكِ ما الشرقُ اصطَلى بجحيمهِ

وبميسَم من ذُلِّه وَسَموك

وبميسَم من ذُلِّه وَسَموك

They made you burn in the same hellfire that scorched the East,

They parched you with the inferno of the East

and branded you with a branding iron of its humiliation.

And a branding iron of its humiliation branded you

وسَقَوك من كأسٍ سُقينا مثلَها

وسَقَوك من كأسٍ سُقينا مثلَها

ولقد يكون ارقَّ من يسقيك

ولقد يكون ارقَّ من يسقيك

And they made you drink from a cup like the one we were made to drink;

And gave you to drink from a cup we drank the like

and whoever makes you drink may indeed be gentler.

And it may be more bitter than yours

وكذاك أنتِ وقد تمخَّضَ نقمةً

وكذاك أنتِ وقد تمخَّضَ نقمةً

تتمخضِّينَ على القَنا المَشبوك

تتمخضِّينَ على القَنا المَشبوك

And you likewise, as the East has labored to bring forth vengeance,

And so are you, and hatred has given birth

are in labor upon interlocked spears.

You give birth to the knotted rope