لِهَذا اليَومِ بَعدَ غَدٍ أَريجٍ

لِهَذا اليَومِ بَعدَ غَدٍ أَريجٍ

وَنارٌ في العَدوِّ لَها أَجيجُ

وَنارٌ في العَدوِّ لَها أَجيجُ

This day will have a fragrance beyond tomorrow,

For this day after tomorrow's fragrant dawn

For this day, the morrow holds a fragrance sweet,

and a fire among the enemy, with a fierce roar.

And a fire against the enemy with loud crackling

And against the foe, a fire that wildly roars;

تَبيتُ بِها الحَواصِنُ آمِناتٍ

تَبيتُ بِها الحَواصِنُ آمِناتٍ

وَتَسلَمُ في مَسالِكِها الحَجيجُ

وَتَسلَمُ في مَسالِكِها الحَجيجُ

Through it, chaste women pass the night secure,

In which the castles spend the night secure

Under its guard, chaste women sleep secure,

and pilgrims are safe along its paths.

And on its roads the pilgrims travel safely

And pilgrims travel safe along their paths.

فَلا زالَت عُداتُكَ حَيثُ كانَت

فَلا زالَت عُداتُكَ حَيثُ كانَت

فَرائِسَ أَيُّها الأَسَدُ المَهيجُ

فَرائِسَ أَيُّها الأَسَدُ المَهيجُ

So may your enemies, wherever they are, forever remain

So your enemies remain wherever they were

May your enemies remain forever as they were,

prey, O roused lion!

O lion terrifying in your rage

Mere prey, O Lion roused to raging wrath!

عَرَفتُكَ وَالصُفوفُ مُعَبَّآتٌ

عَرَفتُكَ وَالصُفوفُ مُعَبَّآتٌ

وَأَنتَ بِغَيرِ سَيفِكَ لا تَعيجُ

وَأَنتَ بِغَيرِ سَيفِكَ لا تَعيجُ

I recognized you while the ranks were arrayed,

I knew you though the ranks were in disarray

I knew you when the battle ranks were marshaled,

and you rely on nothing but your sword.

And without your sword you would not engage

And on naught but your sword you would rely.

وَوَجهُ البَحرِ يُعرَفُ مِن بَعيدٍ

وَوَجهُ البَحرِ يُعرَفُ مِن بَعيدٍ

إِذا يَسجو فَكَيفَ إِذا يَموجُ

إِذا يَسجو فَكَيفَ إِذا يَموجُ

And the sea's face is recognized from afar,

The sea's face can be known from afar

The ocean's face is recognized from afar,

when it lies calm—how much more when it surges!

If it is rippling, how much more if it enrages?

Even when still—how then when it storms?

بِأَرضٍ تَهلِكُ الأَشواطُ فيها

بِأَرضٍ تَهلِكُ الأَشواطُ فيها

إِذا مُلِئَت مِنَ الرَكضِ الفُروجُ

إِذا مُلِئَت مِنَ الرَكضِ الفُروجُ

In a land where galloping runs vanish,

In a land where leagues are destroyed

In a land where galloping steeds are spent,

when the gaps are filled with galloping.

When the steeds fully race in exertion

When every breach is filled with headlong flight,

تُحاوِلُ نَفسَ مَلكِ الرومِ فيها

تُحاوِلُ نَفسَ مَلكِ الرومِ فيها

فَتَفديهِ رَعِيَّتُهُ العُلوجُ

فَتَفديهِ رَعِيَّتُهُ العُلوجُ

There you seek the life of the king of the Romans,

It tries the soul of Rome's king therein

You seek therein the Roman Monarch's life,

so his barbarian subjects ransom him.

So his wretched subjects ransom him

While his barbarian hordes are slain to ransom him.

أَبِالغَمَراتِ توعِدُنا النَصارى

أَبِالغَمَراتِ توعِدُنا النَصارى

وَنَحنُ نُجومُها وَهِيَ البُروجُ

وَنَحنُ نُجومُها وَهِيَ البُروجُ

Do the Christians threaten us with battle's perils,

Do the Christians threaten us with raids?

Do the Christians threaten us with tides of war,

while we are the stars of those perils, and they are the constellations?

While we are its stars and it is the mansions

When we are the stars, and they the zodiac signs?

وَفينا السَيفُ حَملَتُهُ صَدوقٌ

وَفينا السَيفُ حَملَتُهُ صَدوقٌ

إِذا لاقى وَغارَتُهُ لَجوجُ

إِذا لاقى وَغارَتُهُ لَجوجُ

And among us is the Sword, whose charge is true

Among us is the sword whose scabbard is true

Among us is the Sword whose strike rings true,

when he meets the foe, and whose raid is relentless.

If it meets in battle, its sharpness rages

When he meets the foe, persistent in his raid.

نُعَوِّذُهُ مِنَ الأَعيانِ بَأساً

نُعَوِّذُهُ مِنَ الأَعيانِ بَأساً

وَيَكثُرُ بِالدُعاءِ لَهُ الضَجيجُ

وَيَكثُرُ بِالدُعاءِ لَهُ الضَجيجُ

We invoke protection for his prowess against evil eyes,

We invoke blessings upon it against the chiefs' evil

We shield him with charms against the envious eye,

and the clamor of prayers for him swells.

And many pray loudly for it

As the clamor of prayers for him grows loud.

رَضينا وَالدُمُستُقُ غَيرُ راضٍ

رَضينا وَالدُمُستُقُ غَيرُ راضٍ

بِما حَكَمَ القَواضِبُ وَالوَشيجُ

بِما حَكَمَ القَواضِبُ وَالوَشيجُ

We are content—though the Domestikos is not—

We approved while the bloodshedder disapproved

We are content, though the Domesticus is not,

with what the cleaving swords and interlaced spears have decreed.

Of what the ships and commander decided

With the judgment passed by sharp blades and spears.

فَإِن يُقدِم فَقَد زُرنا سَمَندو

فَإِن يُقدِم فَقَد زُرنا سَمَندو

وَإِن يُحجِم فَمَوعِدُهُ الخَليجُ

وَإِن يُحجِم فَمَوعِدُهُ الخَليجُ

So if he advances, we have already visited Samandu;

If he advances, Samanduo we have visited

If he advances, then we have visited Samandu;

and if he holds back, his rendezvous is the Gulf.

And if he holds back, his fate is the Gulf

And if he recoils, our rendezvous is the Gulf.