1. مهما تألّبت الأحداثُ والغيَر

    فالنصر يكتب في الجلى لمن صبروا

    However calamities and reversals may conspire,

    victory in great trials is decreed for those who endure.

  2. والدهر مهما دجا ليل الخطوب به

    يصفو وينجاب عنه الغمّ والكدَر

    And time, however dark its night of calamities,

    clears, and grief and gloom lift from it.

  3. فان تجرعتَ من أحداثه غصصا

    فاصبر وقبلك في الأحداث يعتبر

    So if you have swallowed choking sorrows from its trials,

    be patient; others before you learned from calamities.

  4. يا موطني هجت من وجدي ومن شجَني

    وكان قلبي لما تلقاه ينفطر

    O my homeland, you have stirred my yearning and my sorrow,

    and my heart was breaking at what you endure.

  5. في كل ناحية جرح ينزّ دما

    شكا وضج له لو يشعر الحجر

    In every corner is a wound that oozes blood,

    for which stone would lament and cry out, if it could feel.

  6. هذي فلسطين كم من محنةٍ عصَفَت

    بأهلها ودهاها ظالم أشرُ

    This is Palestine—how many ordeals have swept

    over her people, and a wicked oppressor has assailed her.

  7. قد بدّلوا أمنَها جوراً وأنعمها

    بؤساً وعزّتها ذلاً وما ازدجروا

    They changed her security into oppression, and her blessings

    into misery, her dignity into humiliation, and did not desist.

  8. أتي ليعتادُني همّ يؤرّقني

    إما ادّكرتُ وكم تعتادُني الذكر

    A sorrow came to haunt me, keeping me sleepless,

    whenever I remembered—and how often memories haunt me!

  9. وقفتُ في أربع الماضين أذكرُهم

    أسوانَ والدمع من عينيّ ينهمر

    I stood among the dwellings of those gone before, remembering them,

    grief-stricken, while tears streamed from my eyes.

  10. أسائل الحرم القدسي مكتئبا

    أين الغزاة وأين النصر والظفر

    I question Jerusalem's sanctuary, downcast:

    Where are the conquerors, and where are victory and triumph?

  11. وقفت أذكر ماضيه وفي كبدي

    من الأسى حزنُ تطغى وتستعر

    I stood recalling its past, and in my liver

    sorrow born of grief surges and blazes.

  12. أين الألى شيدوا بالعدل ملكهُم

    قدما وما نكثوا عهدا ولا خفروا

    Where are those who built their realm through justice

    long ago, and neither broke a covenant nor betrayed a pledge?

  13. وأين من دانت الدنيا لعزّتهم

    وأين ما روَت الأخبارُ والسيَر

    And where are those to whose might the world bowed?

    And where is what chronicles and histories recounted?

  14. صحائف المجد خطّ العُرب أسطرَها

    تكاد تطمسها الأيام والغيرَ

    The pages of glory, whose lines the Arabs inscribed,

    are almost erased by days and reversals.

  15. أبناءَ صهيون كادوا كلّ داهية

    واجمعوا أمرَهُم للغدر وائتمروا

    The sons of Zion plotted every calamity,

    and united their purpose for treachery, and conspired.

  16. وفتّ في عضد الأوطان مرتزق

    رثّ الضمير وسمسارٌ ومؤتجر

    And a mercenary sapped the strength of the homelands—

    threadbare of conscience—as did a broker and a profiteer.

  17. واقبلت من فجاج الأرض شرذمَة

    هي الشقاء بهذا الكون والوَضَر

    And from the earth's passes came a rabble:

    it is misery and filth in this universe.

  18. جاؤوا فمِن حالم يهذي بمملكةٍ

    ومن مراب شحيح همّه البدرُ

    They came—among them a dreamer raving of a kingdom,

    and a miserly usurer whose concern is money bags,

  19. ومن جناةٍ وأفاقين أطمَعَهُم

    فينا التخاذُلُ والتقصيرُ والخور

    and criminals and swindlers, made covetous

    of us by disunity, negligence, and weakness.

  20. وهم حثالات أقوام تقاذَفَهم

    ريَبُ الزمان فكم ضلّوا وكم فجروا

    They are the dregs of peoples, tossed about

    by time's vicissitudes—how often they strayed, how often they sinned!

  21. لا تخدعنّك أوهام تضلّهم

    ولا يغرنك ما شادوا وما عمروا

    Do not let the delusions that mislead them deceive you,

    nor be beguiled by what they erected and what they built up.

  22. تفنى فناء سراب البيد أربعهم

    ولا يغرّنَك ما شادوا وما عمروا

    Their dwellings will vanish as the desert mirage vanishes,

    nor be beguiled by what they erected and what they built up.

  23. بالأمس جاءت جموع الغرب واحتشدت

    لم يبق في أرضهم نابٌ ولا ظفرُ

    Yesterday the hosts of the West came and massed;

    not a fang or claw remained in their lands.

  24. من كل فج أتوا باسم الصليب وهم

    به وباللَه والأديان قد كفروا

    From every pass they came in the name of the Cross, though they

    had disbelieved in it, in God, and in the faiths.

  25. يسوقُهم جشَعٌ طاغٍ ويحفزُهم

    إلى الغلاب هوى كالنار تستعر

    Overweening greed drives them, and they are spurred

    to conquest by a passion blazing like fire.

  26. فالبوا كل ذئب جائع قرمٍ

    وأقبلوا زمراً من خلفها زمَر

    So they rallied every hungry, flesh-craving wolf,

    and advanced in bands, with more bands behind them.

  27. ما كان عيسى أخو حرب به ظمأ

    إلى الدماء وما فيها له وطر

    Jesus was no man of war, thirsting

    for blood, nor did he have any desire for it.

  28. فادي الورى نزلَت للحب شرعتُه

    وتلك آيته المسطورة الغرر

    The Redeemer of humankind—his law descended for love,

    and such is his radiant, inscribed verse.

  29. دعا إلى الرفق والايثار أمّتَه

    وللوئام ولكن عَقَّهُ البَشَر

    He called his people to gentleness and selflessness,

    and to harmony, yet humankind betrayed him.

  30. فاستصرخَ المسجد الأقصى غطارِفَةً

    من كل أشوسَ في الهيجا له خطر

    Then al-Aqsa Mosque called noble champions to its aid,

    each a fierce warrior of renown in battle.

  31. بنو العروبة والاسلام يحفزهم

    إلى الجهاد يقين ليس يستتر

    The sons of Arabhood and Islam are spurred

    to jihad by a conviction that does not hide.

  32. قوم إذا استصرخوا لبّوا وما جبنوا

    شروا نفوسهم للّه وابتدروا

    A people who answered when called for help, and did not quail;

    they sold their lives to God and rushed forward.

  33. قاد الصفوف صلاح الدين مجتهداً

    وتحت رايتَهِ الإقدامُ والظفر

    Salah al-Din led the ranks, striving with all his might,

    and beneath his banner were courage and triumph.

  34. وسار يسحق جيش البغي منتصرا

    تعنو له الأرض والتيجان والسرر

    He advanced victorious, crushing the army of oppression;

    the earth, crowns, and thrones bow before him.

  35. ردّ الغزاة على أعقابهم فمضوا

    مشتتين ولم ينفعهُم الحذر

    He drove the invaders back on their heels, and they departed

    scattered, their caution of no use to them,

  36. حتى أعاد إلى الأوطان عزّتَها

    ومجدها فهو طودٌ ليس يندثر

    until he restored to the homelands their dignity

    and their glory; he is a mountain that never crumbles.

  37. يا قوم أين صلاح الدين ينفذُها

    وأينَ حطين هل عن شبهها خبر

    O my people, where is Salah al-Din to carry it through?

    And where is Hattin—is there news of its like?

  38. وهل يعيد لنا التاريخ سيرَتَه

    الأولى فنبني على آثار من عبروا

    And will history restore to us its course

    of old, so we may build upon the traces of those who passed?

  39. إنا سنبعثُها شعواءَ عاصفةً

    تردي اللئام فلا تبقي ولا تذَر

    We shall unleash it, fierce and tempestuous,

    striking down the vile, sparing nothing and leaving nothing.

  40. ويا بلادي سنجلوا كل غاشيَةٍ

    وسوف يبعثُ حيا عهدُك النَضِر

    And, O my country, we shall dispel every affliction,

    and your verdant age shall be raised to life again.

  41. جبالُك الثم إن جار الطغاة بها

    ثارت على الظلم فهي النار والشَرَر

    Your [lofty] mountains, if tyrants oppress them,

    rise against oppression, for they are fire and sparks.

  42. دم الشبيبة في أرجائها عبقٌ

    كم مهجة هصروا كم من دم هدروا

    The blood of youth is fragrant throughout her expanses.

    How many hearts they crushed, how much blood they squandered!

  43. وكم شهيد قضى ظلماً بأربعها

    وكم شريدٍ غريب الدار ينتظر

    And how many martyrs died unjustly in her dwellings,

    and how many exiles, far from home, wait!

  44. ثاروا وقد نذروا للحقّ أنفسَهُم

    وفي سبيل العلا والمجد ما نذروا

    They rose in revolt, having pledged themselves to justice,

    and what they pledged was for the sake of greatness and glory.

  45. أغلوا الفداء ومن أغلى الفدا

    ولم يثنه من مطلب لا بدّ منتصر

    They paid dearly in sacrifice; whoever pays dearly

    and is not deterred from his aim must surely prevail.