كَأسُ الخطُوب بذا العدُوّ دِهاقُ

كَأسُ الخطُوب بذا العدُوّ دِهاقُ

والدين قلبُه واجفٌ خَفّاق

والدين قلبُه واجفٌ خَفّاق

Because of this enemy, the cup of calamities is brimful.

The cup of sorrows boils with enemies

And the heart of faith trembles and pounds.

Whose hearts of religion are timid and trembling

وجَب الدهادُ بني بلادِي فانهَضُوا

وجَب الدهادُ بني بلادِي فانهَضُوا

أليومَ يعذُبُ للحِمَام مَذَاق

أليومَ يعذُبُ للحِمَام مَذَاق

The struggle is a duty, sons of my land—rise!

The time has come my countrymen, arise

Today the taste of death is sweet.

Today the doves' cooing has an afflicted taste

وجَب الجِهَادُ بني بِلادي فَليكُن

وجَب الجِهَادُ بني بِلادي فَليكُن

مِنكم لِميدَانِ الجِهادِ سِبَاق

مِنكم لِميدَانِ الجِهادِ سِبَاق

The struggle is a duty, sons of my land; let there be

The time for jihad has come my countrymen

a race among you to the field of struggle.

Let there be from you a race to the battlefield

يومُ الوغَى نَشتاقُه كَيمَابِه

يومُ الوغَى نَشتاقُه كَيمَابِه

تُشفَى نفوسٌ للوَغَى تَتشتَاق

تُشفَى نفوسٌ للوَغَى تَتشتَاق

We long for the day of battle, so that through it

The day of battle we yearn like an ardent lover

souls yearning for battle may be healed.

To quench souls thirsty for the fury of war

وإذا أُرِيقَت في الجِهاد دِماؤُكُم

وإذا أُرِيقَت في الجِهاد دِماؤُكُم

فكذَا دماءُ المُسلمين تُرَاق

فكذَا دماءُ المُسلمين تُرَاق

And if your blood is shed in the struggle,

And when your blood is spilt in the name of jihad

thus is the blood of Muslims shed.

It will be as the blood of Muslims gushing forth

هذا عدُوُّ الدينِ والإسلامِ قد

هذا عدُوُّ الدينِ والإسلامِ قد

كشَرت علَى أنيابِه الأشداق

كشَرت علَى أنيابِه الأشداق

This is the enemy of faith and Islam; already

This is the enemy of religion and Islam

his jaws have drawn back, baring his fangs.

Baring fangs and gluttonous jaws

قُدَّامكم يرجُو ابتلاَعَ بلادِكُم

قُدَّامكم يرجُو ابتلاَعَ بلادِكُم

هيهاتَ طعمُ المسلمين زُعَاقُ

هيهاتَ طعمُ المسلمين زُعَاقُ

Before you, he hopes to swallow your land.

Before you he hopes to devour your lands

Far from it! Muslims taste bitter and briny.

Never! The taste of Muslims to him is bitter poison

عَجَبِي مِن الدُّتشِي يعرِفُ قَدرَه

عَجَبِي مِن الدُّتشِي يعرِفُ قَدرَه

ويؤُمُّ بيضَ الهِندِ وهى رِقَاقُ

ويؤُمُّ بيضَ الهِندِ وهى رِقَاقُ

I marvel at the Duce: he knows his own measure,

Wondrous is the German who knows his worth

yet makes for India's gleaming swords, thin as they are.

Yet suckles on the milky teats of India, weak and cringing

إِن كان دَاءُ الجهلِ أعمَاه فكَم

إِن كان دَاءُ الجهلِ أعمَاه فكَم

داءٌ له ضربُ الطِّلاَ تِريَاق

داءٌ له ضربُ الطِّلاَ تِريَاق

If the sickness of ignorance has blinded him, many

If the disease of ignorance has blinded him, how many

an ailment finds its antidote in blows to the neck!

Diseases strike those who imbibe poison as remedy

ما حلَّ طليانُ الرَّدَى في بَلدةٍ

ما حلَّ طليانُ الرَّدَى في بَلدةٍ

إلا وحلَّ القتلُ والإِرهَاقُ

إلا وحلَّ القتلُ والإِرهَاقُ

The death-dealing Italians never settled in a town

Wherever the curse of the vile has settled on a land

without killing and oppression settling there too.

Killing and torment quickly befell its people

ما حلَّ طليانُ الجِيَاع بِسَاحة

ما حلَّ طليانُ الجِيَاع بِسَاحة

إلا وعمَّ الفقرُ والإملاَق

إلا وعمَّ الفقرُ والإملاَق

The hungry Italians never settled in a place

Wherever the curse of the wretched came to a field

without poverty and destitution spreading everywhere.

Poverty and misery became widespread

فسَلُوا طرابُلُس الشَّهيدةَ إذ رأَت

فسَلُوا طرابُلُس الشَّهيدةَ إذ رأَت

عمَّا رأت إن سمعُ ذاكَ يُطَاقُ

عمَّا رأت إن سمعُ ذاكَ يُطَاقُ

So ask martyred Tripoli, since she witnessed it,

Ask martyred Tripoli what horrors it saw

about what she saw—if hearing it can be endured.

If the hearing of that can be borne

لِلَّهِ كَم مِن عَالمٍ سِيمَ الرَّدَى

لِلَّهِ كَم مِن عَالمٍ سِيمَ الرَّدَى

وَلِرُوحِه التعذِيبُ وَالإِزهَاق

وَلِرُوحِه التعذِيبُ وَالإِزهَاق

God! How many a scholar was consigned to death,

How many scholars of repute drank the cursed cup

and his soul to torture and extinction!

Their souls tortured and extinguished

حَملُوا على مَتنِ السَّحابِ أَئِمةً

حَملُوا على مَتنِ السَّحابِ أَئِمةً

بِيضَ اللِّحَى لِوُجُوهِهِم إشرَاق

بِيضَ اللِّحَى لِوُجُوهِهِم إشرَاق

They carried imams upon the back of the clouds,

Carried upon the clouds were venerable imams

white-bearded, with radiance upon their faces.

White of beard and luminous of face

وأرَوهُمُ وَجهَ الثَّرى ورَمَوا بهِم

وأرَوهُمُ وَجهَ الثَّرى ورَمَوا بهِم

والدمعُ مِن أجفَانِهم مُهرَاق

والدمعُ مِن أجفَانِهم مُهرَاق

And they showed them the face of the earth and hurled them down,

They were shown the visage of the dust and tossed aside

and tears poured from their eyelids.

Tears streaming from their eyes poured forth

وفَتاةُ طُهرٍ لَم تَعُد واحسرَتِي

وفَتاةُ طُهرٍ لَم تَعُد واحسرَتِي

تِلكَ الفَتَاةَ فَجُرحُهَا دَفَّاق

تِلكَ الفَتَاةَ فَجُرحُهَا دَفَّاق

And a pure maiden is no longer—oh, my sorrow!—

And a pure maiden, what calamity, how woeful

that maiden, for her wound gushes.

That maiden whose deep wound gushed blood

يَا للَمُصَاب ويَا لِهَولِهِ إِلى إلَى ال

يَا للَمُصَاب ويَا لِهَولِهِ إِلى إلَى ال

مَكرُوهِ عَذراءُ العَفَافِ تُسَاق

مَكرُوهِ عَذراءُ العَفَافِ تُسَاق

Alas for the calamity, and alas for its horror! To, to the—

Oh what tribulation, oh what horror

dreaded ordeal, the chaste virgin is driven.

To where she was led - the chaste virgin dragged

بُقِرَت بُطونُ الأمهَاتِ عَلَى أَجِن

بُقِرَت بُطونُ الأمهَاتِ عَلَى أَجِن

نَتِها وكَان نَصِيبَهَا الإِحرَاقُ

نَتِها وكَان نَصِيبَهَا الإِحرَاقُ

Mothers' bellies were ripped open upon their unborn

The bellies of mothers slit open over their fetuses

children, and burning was their lot.

And their portion was conflagration

هذِي الدُّمُوعُ وَهذِي آمَاقُهَا

هذِي الدُّمُوعُ وَهذِي آمَاقُهَا

فسَلُوا متَى ضَنَّت بهَا الآمَاقُ

فسَلُوا متَى ضَنَّت بهَا الآمَاقُ

These are the tears, and these the eye-corners they flow from;

These are tears and their wellsprings

so ask when those eye-corners ever withheld them.

Ask when have wellsprings held back their water

قد مَثَّلُوا بِالبَعض أَشنعَ مُثلَةٍ

قد مَثَّلُوا بِالبَعض أَشنعَ مُثلَةٍ

وَالبَعضُ مِنهم تُسمَلُ الأحدَاقُ

وَالبَعضُ مِنهم تُسمَلُ الأحدَاقُ

They have inflicted the most hideous mutilation on some,

Some were mutilated in the most gruesome way

and others among them have their eyes gouged out.

While others had their eyes gouged out

تَاريخَ أندلسٍ بِربِّك لاَ تَعُد

تَاريخَ أندلسٍ بِربِّك لاَ تَعُد

ولَيَبقَ منكَ علَى الورَى إشفَاقُ

ولَيَبقَ منكَ علَى الورَى إشفَاقُ

History of al-Andalus, by your Lord, do not return!

Do not repeat the history of Andalusia

And may your compassion for humankind endure.

Let your legacy be but fervent compassion

واعلَم بأنَّ القَلبَ يَخفِقُ عِندَ ذِك

واعلَم بأنَّ القَلبَ يَخفِقُ عِندَ ذِك

رِك والحزِينُ فُؤَادُه خَفَّاقُ

رِك والحزِينُ فُؤَادُه خَفَّاقُ

And know that the heart pounds at the mention

Know that hearts tremble and quake

of you, and the grieving one's heart pounds.

When you are remembered, their ardent throbbing

إِن أَرعَدُوا أو أبرَقُوا حَاشا بِأَن

إِن أَرعَدُوا أو أبرَقُوا حَاشا بِأَن

يُغوِيكُم الإِرعَادُ وَالإِبرَاقُ

يُغوِيكُم الإِرعَادُ وَالإِبرَاقُ

If they thunder or flash lightning, far be it that

If they thunder or lightening, beware

their thunder and lightning should lead you astray.

That thunder and lightening lead you not astray

هَذا الوِفَاقُ وهَذِه آيَاتُهُ

هَذا الوِفَاقُ وهَذِه آيَاتُهُ

مَا خَابَ فِي يَوم اللِّقَاءِ وِفَاقُ

مَا خَابَ فِي يَوم اللِّقَاءِ وِفَاقُ

This is concord, and these are its signs;

This is harmony and these are its signs

concord has never failed on the day of battle.

Never failed on the day of meeting are kindred spirits

أبنِي بِلاَدِي ذَا العَدوُّ بِبَابِكم

أبنِي بِلاَدِي ذَا العَدوُّ بِبَابِكم

هَيَّا بِنا ومُعِينُنا الخَلاَّقُ

هَيَّا بِنا ومُعِينُنا الخَلاَّقُ

O sons of my land, this enemy is at your door.

My countrymen, the enemy is at your door

Come, let us go; the Creator is our helper.

To arms, our helper is the Creator