قف يا زمان معي بالله وانتحب

واهتف لدمعك من عينيك ينسكب

Stand with me, O Time, by God, and sob.

And cry out for your tears to pour from your eyes.

قف يا زمان ولا تعجب فليس بما

أقوله لك ما يدعو إلى العجب

Stand still, O Time, and do not marvel, for there is nothing in what

I say to you that calls for wonder.

ذكراك يا مرشدي مرت ودعوتنا

بالنصر ترفل في ثوابها القشب

Your anniversary, my guide, has passed, and our call

Revels in victory, in its fresh reward.

إن كنت يا مرشدي فارقتنا جسدا

ازهار نقص فإن عنا قط لم تغب

Though you, my guide, have left us in body,

[Unclear: “blossoms, deficiency”]; for you have never been absent from us.

عشرون عاما بها يا خير داعية

قد صغت للمشرق تاج العز من ذهب

Twenty years in which, O finest preacher,

You forged for the East a crown of glory from gold.

دعوت للحق والأيام شاهدة

ما كنت تنشد غير الحق من طلب

You called for truth, and the days bear witness;

You sought nothing but truth in your quest.

فما قصدت بما تدعو لمنفعة

ولا دعوت إلى جاه ولا نشب

You aimed at no gain in what you preached,

Nor did you preach for status or wealth.

بل كنت ترجو من الباري مثوبته

والأجر عن كل ما قدمت من تعب

Rather, you hoped for the Creator's reward,

And recompense for all the toil you had offered.

يا منقذ الشرق من خطب ألم به

لولاك كاد يكون الشرق في لهب

O savior of the East from a calamity that befell it,

Without you, the East would have come close to being aflame.

دعوت والناس أخلاط منوعة

ما بين ذي جشع منهم وذي سغب

You preached while the people were a varied throng,

Ranging from the greedy among them to the hungry.

فما سئمت لما لاقيت من عنت

ولا وهنت أمام الدهر النوب

Yet you did not grow weary from the hardship you faced,

Nor did you falter before calamitous time.

يا مرشد الناس نحو الجد في زمن

به نفوس الورى مالت إلى اللعب

O guide of people toward earnestness in an age

When the souls of mankind inclined to play,

يا باعث النهضة الكبرى وقائدها

بعثت روح التقى والعلم والأدب

O awakener and leader of the great revival,

You revived the spirit of piety, knowledge, and literature

في نفس جيل نأى عن كل مكرمة

عار عن الصدق ميال إلى الكذب

In the soul of a generation estranged from every noble deed,

Bereft of honesty, inclined to lying.

لم يدر ما الدين من جهل ومن سفه

وإن دعاه دعاة الخير لم يجب

It did not know what religion was, through ignorance and folly,

And even when the callers to goodness summoned it, it did not respond.

كأنه عن نداء الله في صمم

حتى اشتكى الصم شعبان إلى رجب

As though deaf to God's call,

Until Sha'ban complained of that deafness to Rajab.

بعثت في الشرق روح العز ثانية

والعز لم يأت عفوا دونما سبب

You revived the spirit of glory in the East once more,

And glory did not come by chance, without a cause.

فكنت للشرق حقا قطب نهضته

وهل تدور الرحى إلا على القطب

You were truly the pivot of the East's revival,

And does the millstone turn except upon its pivot?

يا قوم هذي فلسطين تحدثنا

حديث صدق الاخوان ذا عجب

O people, here is Palestine telling us

A wondrous tale of the Brotherhood's sincerity.

بالله يا ثبة الاخوان كيف غدا

فيك اليهود أمام الخيرة النجب

By God, O band of the Brotherhood, how did

The Jews fare in your midst, before the chosen, noble men?

يا قوم عشرون في الميدان ما وهنوا

ولا استكانوا أمام الجحفل اللجب

O people, twenty men in the field did not falter,

Nor did they yield before the clamorous army.

يا قول عشرون جنديا قد اقتحموا

معسكر الكفر حتى صاح واحربي

O people [text: “speech”], twenty soldiers have stormed

The camp of unbelief, until it cried, “Alas, my ruin!”

والله أكبر في الميدان تدفعهم

للانتصارات في ركض وفي خبب

And “God is greatest!” drives them on in the field

Toward victories, at a gallop and a trot.

لسان حال فلسطين يقول لنا

لله ما فعل الاخوان في النقب

Palestine's plight speaks to us:

God be praised for what the Brotherhood did in the Negev!

ساروا لتطهير بيت الله ثانية

كما إليه سرى من قبل خير نبي

They marched to purify God's House once more,

As the best of prophets had journeyed there by night before.

فمنبر المسجد الأقصى

يهيب بهموظنه في جنود الله لم يخب

And so the pulpit of the al-Aqsa Mosque

Calls to them; its trust in God's soldiers was not disappointed.

يا قوم عشرون في الميدان وحدهم

والخصم منسحب في إثر منسحب

O people, twenty men were alone on the battlefield,

And the enemy withdrew, one retreating foe after another.

سئلت في صغر كالناس مسألة

عن خير ما تتمناه من الأرب

You were asked in childhood, like others, a question

About the dearest wish you longed to attain.

وكنت بين رفاق قال أكثرهم

إني لأطمع في عال من الرتب

You were among companions, most of whom said:

“Indeed, I aspire to a lofty rank.”

فكان همك إحياء الشريعة من

نوم فكنت أخا قلب وأنت صبي

Your concern was to awaken the Sharia from

Sleep; you were a man of heart, though still a boy.

ورحت تدعوا لما يدعو الرسول له

فكنت حقا إمام العجم والعرب

And you began calling for what the Messenger called for,

So you were truly the imam of non-Arabs and Arabs.

ظنوا بقتلك يخبو نور دعوتنا

فيستريحون هذا ظن كل غبي

They thought that killing you would dim the light of our call,

So they could rest easy—such is every fool's thinking.

كم من أبي جهل لاقي الموت مندحرا

أمام دعوتنا كم من أبي لهب

How many an Abu Jahl has met death, defeated,

Before our call; how many an Abu Lahab!

أيحسبون بأن الله تاركهم

كما يشاؤون في لهو وفي طرب

Do they think that God will leave them

To do as they please in diversion and merriment?

من يبغ إطفاء نور الله به نقص

حتف ويرم به الجبار في اللهب

Whoever seeks to extinguish God's light—[unclear: “in him, deficiency”]—

Death—and the Almighty casts him into the flames.

وما هزيمة فاروق بخافية

عنا وكيف غدا في شر منقلب

Farouk's defeat is not hidden

From us, nor how he came to the worst fate.

هذا حمى الله يا باغي وحرمته

والله يرقب من يعصيه عن كثب

This is God's protected ground, O transgressor, and His inviolable precinct.

And God watches closely whoever disobeys Him.

اعد ربك نارا لا مثيل لها

لكل دان له بالسوء مقترب

Your Lord has prepared a fire without equal

For everyone drawing near to it with evil intent.