1. أخي، هذه الأرضُ ما شأنْهَا؟

    يكادُ يُنَاجِيكَ بنيانُها!

    My brother, what is the matter with this land?

    Its buildings almost whisper to you!

  2. تكادُ لفَرْطَ أسَاها تفيضُ

    من الدَّمع لا الماءِ غدرانُها!

    From the intensity of its grief, they almost overflow—

    its pools—with tears, not water!

  3. بِرَبِّك: هل فَقَدتْ أهلَهَا

    فزادتْ على الأهل أحْزَانُها؟

    By your Lord, has it lost its people,

    so that its sorrows for its people have grown?

  4. لقد حلَّهَا غيرُ سُكَّانها

    وعنها تَرَحَّلَ سُكَّانُها

    Indeed, people other than its inhabitants have settled there,

    and its inhabitants have departed from it.

  5. على بابها صاح طَيْرٌ غريبٌ

    فَنَاحَ على طْيره بَانُها!

    At its gate a foreign bird cried out,

    so its bān trees wailed for their bird!

  6. إذا ذُكر العُرْبُ؛ حنَّتْ، وأنَّتْ

    وراحَتْ تُلوِّحُ أغصانها!

    Whenever the Arabs are mentioned, it yearns and moans,

    and begins waving its branches!

  7. وصاحت تُهيبُ بجيرانهَا

    فهل سَمعَ الصَّوْتَ جيرانُها؟

    And it cries out, appealing to its neighbors—

    so have its neighbors heard the call?

  8. فلَسْطِينُ، أرضُ العُرُبة عَيْنٌ

    وأنتِ من العَيْن إِنْسَانُها

    Palestine, the Arab homeland is an eye,

    and you are the pupil of that eye.

  9. فلا غَمَضَتْ عنك عينُ فتَاكِ

    ولا ذاقَت النَّوْمَ أجفانُها

    So may your young man's eye never close to you,

    nor its eyelids ever taste sleep,

  10. إلى أن أُقَبِّل أرضَكِ سَبْعًا

    فتهدأ نفسي وأشجانُها

    until I kiss your soil seven times,

    and then my soul and its sorrows grow calm.

  11. فإن عشت، تخْمُدْ بقلبي حقودٌ

    تَسَعَّرُ في القلب نيرانُها

    For if I live, grudges in my heart will die down,

    whose fires blaze within the heart.

  12. وإن متُّ، لم تُنسنيكِ الجنانُ

    وَحُورُ الجنَانِ وَولْدَانُها

    And if I die, the gardens of Paradise will not make me forget you,

    nor Paradise's houris and its youths.

  13. وَخَلْفي لِثأري وثَأر بلادي

    أُسُودُ الحُرُوب وفُرْسانُها

    And behind me, to avenge me and my homeland,

    are the lions of war and its horsemen.

  14. إذا صفَحَاتُ البطولةِ خُطَّتْ

    فإِنَّ العروبةَ عُنْوَانُها

    When the pages of heroism are written,

    then Arabhood is indeed their heading.

  15. ودينُ العُروبةِ بعد الإِله

    وبعد النَّبِيِّينَ أوطانُها

    And Arabhood's faith, after God

    and after the prophets, is its homelands.

  16. فلَسْطين: أرواحُنا الغالياتُ

    ببابكِ تَرْخُصُ أَثْمَانُها

    Palestine, our precious souls—

    at your gate, their price falls low.

  17. بلادِيَ ليست لغيري، ونَفْسِي

    ونَفْسُ وَحِيدِيَ قُرْبَانُها!

    My homeland belongs to no one else, and my soul

    and my only son's soul are its sacrificial offering!