دوافقٌgushing torrents منof مطرrain
دوافقٌ من مطر
كأنهنّas though they were القدرfate
كأنهنّ القدر
Gushing torrents of rain,
Raindrops of agreement
as though they were fate;
As if they were the pot
لوامعflashes منof شررsparks
لوامع من شرر
أخفّmilder منهاthan them سقرSaqar (Hell)
أخفّ منها سقر
flashes of sparks—
Flashes of embers
Saqar is milder than they.
Lighter than hellfire
يومday القيامةthe Resurrection آتcoming ليتif only ماhow أسفىmy sorrow
يوم القيامة آت ليت ما أسفى
علىfor زمانan age بهin it الأحرارfree people عبدانslaves
على زمان به الأحرار عبدان
The Day of Resurrection is coming—if only! How I grieve
Judgement day is coming, would that I had not lived to see
for an age in which free people are slaves.
The time when freemen are slaves
فيin كلevery يومday لناfor us فيin مصرEgypt معضلةٌa predicament
في كل يوم لنا في مصر معضلةٌ
يثيرهاstirs it up الإنسhumans فيin مصرEgypt أوor الجانjinn
يثيرها الإنس في مصر أو الجان
Every day in Egypt we have a predicament,
Each day in Egypt we have a predicament
stirred up in Egypt by humans or jinn.
Stirred up by man or jinn
أرضa land شقيناwe have suffered بهاin it فيat كلevery آونةmoment
أرض شقينا بها في كل آونة
فالعدلso justice فيin ساحهاits precincts جورinjustice وطغيانand tyranny
فالعدل في ساحها جور وطغيان
A land where we have suffered at every moment;
A land we have suffered in at all times
so justice in its precincts is injustice and tyranny.
So justice in its fields is tyranny and oppression