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مُهْدَاةٌ إِلَى أَطْفَالِ الِانْتِفَاضَةِ فِي فِلَسْطِينَ.

يَا فِتْيَةَ الْقُدْسِ الشَّرِيفِ الثَّائِرِينَ عَلَى الْقُيُودْ
يَا بَاعِثِي الْأَمَلِ الْمُجَنَّحِ فِي فُؤَادِي مِنْ جَدِيدْ
يَا مَوْلِدَ الْفَجْرِ الْمُشِعِّ بِنُورِ مَاضِينَا التَّلِيدْ
أَطْفَالَ خَالِدِ أَنْتُمُ ثُورُوا عَلَى وَجْهِ الْحَقُودْ
وَصَلَاحُنَا فِيكُمْ فَهُبُّوا وَاسْحَقُوا تِلْكَ الْقُرُودْ
بُشْرَاكُمُ بِالنَّصْرِ مِنْ رَبٍّ وَفِيٍّ بِالْوُعُودْ
يَا صَيْحَةَ الْحَقِّ الْمُجَلْجِلِ فِي النُّفُوسِ بِلَا سُكُونْ
وَعَلَى انْتِفَاضَةِ عُصْبَةٍ تَرَكُوا وَرَاءَهُمُ الرُّكُونْ
هَجَرُوا الْمُيُوعَةَ وَالْخَنَا وَلَّوْا عَنِ الذُّلِّ الْمُهِينْ
ثَارُوا عَلَى وَجْهِ الْعَدُوِّ بِصَيْحَةِ الْحَقِّ الْمُبِينْ
ثَارُوا لِفَتْحِ الْقُدْسِ إِنَّ اللَّيْثَ يَثْأَرُ لِلْعَرِينْ
وَالْحُرُّ يَثْأَرُ لِلْكَرَامَةِ ذَائِدًا عَنْهَا الْخَئُونْ
إِنْ يُطْلِقِ الْأَعْدَاءُ نَارًا فَاقْذِفُوهُمْ بِالْحَجَرْ
هَيَّا ارْشُقُوهُمْ وَابِلًا مِنْ ذِي الْحِجَارَةِ كَالْمَطَرْ
إِنَّ الْحِجَارَةَ إِنْ عَتَتْ لَأَشَدُّ فَتْكًا مِنْ جَمَرْ
بَلْ ضَيِّقُوا بِهِمُ الْخِنَاقَ حَتَّى يَرَوْا أَنْ لَا مَفَرْ
فَاللَّهُ نَاصِرُ جَمْعِكُمْ وَاللَّهُ دَاحِرُ مَنْ كَفَرْ
وَالنَّصْرُ صَارَ حَلِيفَكُمْ وَالْكُفْرُ حَتْمًا مُنْدَحِرْ

مقديشو
1987م

O Youths of Jerusalem

Dedicated to the children of the Intifada1 in Palestine.

  1. O youths of noble Jerusalem2, risen in revolt against your bonds,
  2. O you who wake once more within my heart a hope with wings outspread,
  3. O birth of a dawn that shines with the light of the past our fathers bequeathed:
  4. children of Khalid3 that you are, rise up in the face of the foe steeped in hatred!
  5. In you is our Saladin, our salvation4: so spring up, and crush that apish horde5!
  6. Glad tidings of victory to you, from a Lord who is true to His word.
  7. O cry of truth, that thunders through the souls and never quietens down,
  8. and rings over the uprising of a band who have left complacency behind!
  9. They have forsaken softness and vice, and turned from the abasement that demeans;
  10. they rose up in the face of the enemy with the cry of the truth made plain.
  11. They rose to win Jerusalem back6: the lion takes vengeance for his den,
  12. and the free man avenges his dignity, defending it against the man of treason.
  13. If the enemies should open fire, then stones are what they’ll meet:
  14. Come, loose on them a downpour of these stones, like rain in driving sheets.
  15. For stones, when they rage, are deadlier than the embers’ heat.
  16. More than that: tighten the noose around them, till they see there is nowhere to flee.
  17. For God is the helper of your ranks, and God routs whoever disbelieves;
  18. victory has become your ally, and unbelief must surely meet defeat.

Mogadishu, 1987

Notes

  1. Intifāḍa, literally ‘shaking off’, as one shakes off dust or a burden, is the name given to the Palestinian uprising that began in December 1987, the year this poem is dated. Its best-known image was of children and youths throwing stones at soldiers, which the poem takes up in its final section. ↩
  2. Al-Quds al-Sharīf, ‘noble Jerusalem’: al-Quds, the Arabic name of the city, means ‘the Holy’, and al-sharīf, ‘the noble’, is its customary honorific. ↩
  3. Khalid ibn al-Walid (d. 642), the celebrated early Muslim general known as ‘the Sword of God’, who led the conquest of Syria. To call the youths his children is to make them heirs of the heroic age of Islam. ↩
  4. Ṣalāḥunā fīkum carries a double meaning (tawriya). Ṣalāḥ means ‘good, well-being, salvation’, so the words say ‘our salvation lies in you’; but Ṣalāḥ is also the name of Saladin (Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Ayyūbī), who recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187, so they also say ‘our Saladin is among you’. After Khalid, the second great liberator is named. ↩
  5. The insult draws on Qur’anic passages (2:65, 5:60, 7:166) in which a group of the Children of Israel who broke the Sabbath were turned into apes. The word (qurūd, apes) is used here as a polemical term of contempt for the enemy. ↩
  6. Fatḥ, literally ‘opening’, is the word used for the historic Muslim conquests of cities; ‘the fatḥ of Jerusalem’ recalls both its entry by the caliph ʿUmar in 637 and its recovery by Saladin in 1187. The youths are cast as renewing those deeds. ↩

English translation prepared by artificial intelligence and reviewed against the Arabic for accuracy of meaning and rhetoric.