1. أيها الغاضبون من ثقة الشعب

    بنا والمؤلبون علينا

    O you angered by the people's trust

    in us, and you who incite others against us;

  2. أيها المرهقون يأساً وغماً

    وانهماكاً في هدم ماقد بنينا

    O you exhausted by despair and grief,

    and by your absorption in destroying what we have built;

  3. أيها الحاسدون من أجل عبء

    قد ونينا من ثقله وأنحنينا

    O you who envy us a burden

    whose weight has wearied and bent us:

  4. لو حملتم من أمره ما حملنا

    لاشتكيتم من الأسى ما اشتكينا

    had you borne of it what we have borne,

    you would have lamented the anguish we lamented.

  5. أيها الزاعمون انا احتكرنا

    دعوة الحق وحدنا وانزوينا

    O you who claim that we have monopolized

    the call to truth alone, and withdrawn into seclusion:

  6. ما احتكرنا نضالنا بل دعونا

    فرفضتم أن تفهموا ما عنينا

    we did not monopolize our struggle; rather, we invited you,

    yet you refused to understand what we meant.

  7. هالكم صبرنا على كل خطب

    فوقفتم من ذعركم! ومضينا

    Our patience through every calamity appalled you;

    so you halted in terror, while we went on.

  8. ساءكم أننا انفردنا بعزمٍ

    وصمود وأننا ما انثنينا

    It vexed you that we stood alone in resolve

    and steadfastness, and that we did not yield.

  9. انتموا  ليس نحنغبتم ليبقى

    شرف الحق كله في يدينا

    It was you, not we, who stayed away, leaving

    all the honor of truth in our hands.

  10. يعلم الله أننا نتمنى

    لو رجعتم بعد العقوق إلينا

    God knows that we long

    for you to return to us after your disloyalty.

  11. بل وندعوا أن تسبقونا وتجنوا

    ثمرات الختام مما ابتدينا

    Indeed, we pray that you outstrip us and reap

    the final fruits of what we began.

  12. أيها الكارهون أن يُقبِل الشعب

    علينا بالله ماذا جنينا

    O you who hate the people's turning

    toward us—by God, what crime have we committed?

  13. عرفتنا آهاته ومآسيه

    فنؤنا بنارها واصطلينا

    Their sighs and tragedies came to know us,

    so we bore their fire and burned in it.

  14. سقمه يعرف العلاج بأيدينا

    ويدري بوعيه كم شفينا

    Their sickness knows the remedy in our hands,

    and knows full well how many we have healed.

  15. الأسارى في ظلمة السجن لا يرجون

    نور الصباح إلا لدينا

    The captives in prison's darkness hope for no

    morning light except with us.

  16. والجراحات حالمات برؤيا

    يوميها الشامخ الذي اعلينا

    And the wounds dream of a vision

    of their lofty day, which we raised on high.

  17. والضحايا في قبضة الرعب يلقون

    العزاء الغالي بما ضحينا

    And the victims in terror's grip find

    precious solace in what we have sacrificed.

  18. والملايين هائمات إلى البعث

    وأنبائه التي قد روينا

    And the millions yearn for rebirth

    and its tidings, which we have recounted.

  19. والجياع الغرثى تحن إلى ما

    قد غرسنا لأجلها وسقينا

    And the hungry, the famished, long for what

    we have planted and watered for their sake.

  20. يجد الصمّ في رقى طبنا سمعاً

    ويلقاه العميُ..نوراً وعينا

    The deaf find hearing in our medicine's charms,

    and the blind find in it light and an eye.

  21. أي ذنبٍ لنا إذا عرف الشعب

    لنا أننا له قد وفينا

    What sin is ours if the people acknowledge

    that we have kept faith with them?

  22. جرحه دله على جرحنا الدامي

    فسوى ما بيننا واستوينا

    Their wound led them to our bleeding wound,

    leveling what lay between us, and we became equals.

  23. دمعه شاهدٌ بأنا شربناه

    كؤوساً من الأسى واحتسينا

    Their tears bear witness that we drank them

    as cups of anguish, and drank them down.

  24. أهُهُ شاعرٌ بأنا احترقنا

    من لظى حرِّه وأنا اكتوينا

    Their sigh senses that we burned

    in the blaze of its heat, and were scorched.

  25. خطبه عاش بيننا فهو يدري

    كم جرينا لطبه وسعينا

    Their calamity lived among us, so it knows

    how far we ran and strove to heal it.

  26. أذنه لا تكاد تسمع مرثاةً

    تعزيه غير ما قد رثينا

    Their ear can scarcely hear a lament

    that consoles them, save the laments we have voiced.

  27. صهرتنا آلامه فامتزجنا

    واتحدنا بروحه والتقينا

    Their pains melted us, and we blended,

    and united with their spirit and came together.

  28. منحونا الدنيا لكي ننبذ الشعب

    ونغضي عن ظلمهم فأبينا

    They offered us the world so we would forsake the people

    and overlook their oppression; but we refused.

  29. ويبيعون ألف تاجبأسمال

    فقير من شعبنا ما شرينا

    And they would trade a thousand crowns for the rags

    of a poor man of our people; we would not sell.

  30. أيها الظالمون هل ذي صخورٌ

    ما هززنا منكم وما نادينا..؟

    O oppressors, are these rocks—

    those among you we have shaken and called to?

  31. ألسثن النار حولكم تتحدّا

    ألسُناً تعطيكم كذاباً ومينا

    The tongues of fire around you challenge

    tongues that feed you falsehood and lies.

  32. إحذروا يوم الشعب يوم يلاقيكم

    وعطي الدرس الذي أعطينا

    Beware the people's day, the day they meet you

    and give the lesson we have taught.

  33. يوم لن تلتقوا بمن أعطى النصح

    إليكم ومن يسير الهوينا

    A day when you will not meet those who gave counsel

    to you, nor those who walk gently.

  34. ويقول النُّوام: هانحن أحرار

    سحقنا هول الدجى وصحونا

    And the sleepers say: Here we are, free!

    We crushed the terror of darkness and awoke!

  35. ويقول الطغاة ياليتنا كنا

    سمعنا صوت الهدى وارعوينا

    And the tyrants say: If only we had

    heard the voice of guidance and taken heed!

  36. يوم ينقضُ شعبنا كالبراكين

    يركيم منأمره ما رأينا

    The day our people strike like volcanoes,

    showing you of their might what we have seen.

  37. وترون اجمهور جنّ فلا يعرف

     ليناً ولا يخاطب هوناً

    And you will see a crowd gone mad that knows

    no gentleness, nor speaks softly,

  38. من عبيد تخر ألهة اليوم

    لهم سجداً وتطلب عونا

    made up of slaves—today's gods fall

    prostrate before them and seek aid—

  39. وحفاةٍ يبغون من جلد جنكيز

    حذاء.. يقضي لهم منه دينا

    and barefoot folk who seek, from Genghis's hide,

    a shoe to settle a debt he owes them;

  40. وجياع تضج كالرعد فيكم:

    أطعمونا من لحمكم ما اشتهينا

    and starving folk who thunder among you:

    Feed us of your flesh all we crave!

  41. وقبور تنشق عمن قتلتم

    ينادونكم : ألا قد أتينا

    And graves split open to reveal those you killed,

    calling to you: Behold, we have come!

  42. وكنوزٍ من الحرام يراها

    مقتنوها هلكاً وحينا

    And hoards of ill-gotten wealth are seen

    by their owners as ruin and doom;

  43. وقصور يفرّ منا ذووها

    ويقولون ليتنا ما بنينا

    and palaces whose owners flee from us,

    saying: If only we had never built!

  44. ومقاماتُ سؤددٍ يجد القاعد فيها

     عاراً مهيناً وشينا

    and stations of prestige whose occupant finds

    humiliating shame and disgrace.