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(نَشِيدٌ جَمَاعِيٌّ أُهْدِيهِ إِلَى أَطْفَالِ فِلَسْطِينَ
بِمُنَاسَبَةِ ثَوْرَةِ الْحِجَارَةِ الْمُبَارَكَةِ.)

كُورَسٌ مِنَ الْأَطْفَالِ:

وَدَاعًا. وَدَاعًالِعَهْدِ الْخُنُوعْ
سَنَرْفَعُ هَامًاوَنَأْبَى الْخُضُوعْ
وَنَكْسِرُ قَيْدًاأَذَلَّ الْجُمُوعْ
جُمُوعَ الْأُبَاةِحُمَاةِ الْوَطَنْ

كُورَسٌ آخَرُ:

سَنُثْبِتُ أَنَّابِهَذِي الْحِجَارَةْ
نُحَرِّرُ أَرْضًاوَنُفْشِي الطَّهَارَةْ
وَنَهْزِمُ جَيْشًابَنَتْهُ الدَّعَارَةْ
وَأَجْبَنَ مِنْ أَنْيُوَاجِهَ فَارَةْ

طِفْلَةٌ:

أَنَا ابْنَةُ يَافَا

طِفْلٌ:

أَنَا ابْنُ الْخَلِيلْ

طِفْلَةٌ:

أَنَا ابْنَةُ حَيْفَا

طِفْلٌ:

أَنَا ابْنُ الْجَلِيلْ

طِفْلٌ آخَرُ:

أَنَا ابْنُ الْمُقَدَّسِ
مَسْرَى الرَّسُولْ

الْجَمِيعُ:

وَنَحْنُ جَمِيعًاحُمَاةُ الْوَطَنْ

طِفْلٌ:

بِهَذِي الْحِجَارَةْأُحَرِّرُ أَرْضِي

طِفْلَةٌ:

وَأَرْجُمُ نَذْلًايُلَوِّثُ عِرْضِي

طِفْلٌ:

بِهَذِي الْحِجَارَةِرَبِّي سَأُرْضِي
وَلَيْسَ يَطُوفُبِعَيْنَيَّ الْوَسَنْ

جَمِيعُ الْأَطْفَالِ:

أَيَا عَرَبُ جِدُّواوَلُمُّوا الشَّعَثْ
لَقَدْ ذَلَّ مَنْ صَاــرَ يَهْوَى الْعَبَثْ
وَفِي حِينِ أَنَّ الْــعَدُوَّ بَعَثْ
جُيُوشًا تَدُكُّحُصُونَ الْوَطَنْ

مقديشو

Farewell to the Age of Submission

(A choral anthem, which I dedicate to the children of Palestine on the occasion of the blessed Revolution of the Stones1.)

A chorus of children:

  1. Farewell and farewell
    to the years when we bowed!
  2. We will hold our heads high
    and refuse to be cowed;
  3. we will break the chain
    that has humbled the crowd,
  4. the crowd of the proud,
    who guard the homeland.

Another chorus:

  1. We will prove that with these,
    with these stones that we throw,
  2. we can free a land
    and let purity flow,
  3. and rout an army
    that depravity built2,
  4. an army too craven
    to face down a mouse.

A girl:

  1. I am Jaffa’s daughter.3

A boy:

  1. I am Hebron’s son.

A girl:

  1. I am Haifa’s daughter.

A boy:

  1. I am Galilee’s son.

Another boy:

  1. I am son of the Hallowed City4,
  2. where the Messenger journeyed by night.

All:

  1. And all of us, together,
    guard the homeland.

A boy:

  1. With these stones I will set
    my land free;

A girl:

  1. and I’ll stone the vile wretch5
    who would stain my honour.

A boy:

  1. With these stones I shall please
    my Lord,
  2. and no drowsiness ever
    shall circle my eyes.

All the children:

  1. O Arabs, be earnest,
    and gather what’s frayed6!
  2. He is humbled who has grown
    to love idle play,
  3. even as the enemy
    has sent forth, arrayed,
  4. armies that pound
    the forts of the homeland.

Mogadishu

Notes

  1. The Revolution of the Stones (thawrat al-ḥijāra) is a common Arabic name for the first Palestinian Intifada, which broke out in December 1987. Its emblem was the children and youths who faced soldiers armed only with stones; hence the stones that recur throughout this anthem. ↩
  2. The rhyme sets ṭahāra, purity, directly against daʿāra, literally prostitution, and by extension vice and depravity. The children who spread purity face an army that, in the anthem’s taunt, was ‘built’ by depravity; the insult then turns to cowardice in the next line. Fāra is faʾra, ‘mouse’, with the glottal stop softened for the rhyme. ↩
  3. The children name themselves after cities across the whole of historic Palestine: Jaffa and Haifa, the coastal cities inside the 1948 borders of Israel; Hebron (in Arabic al-Khalīl, ‘the Friend’, after Abraham, the ‘Friend of God’, whose tomb is venerated there) in the West Bank; and Galilee in the north. The roll-call claims all of these places as one homeland. ↩
  4. Al-Muqaddas, ‘the Hallowed’, is short for Bayt al-Maqdis, an old Arabic name of Jerusalem, from the same root as al-Quds, ‘the Holy’. The next line recalls the Isrāʾ, the Prophet Muhammad’s Night Journey from Mecca to ‘the Farthest Mosque’ (Qur’an 17:1), which Muslim tradition identifies with al-Aqsa in Jerusalem. ↩
  5. Arjumu, ‘I stone’, is the verb from which comes al-rajīm, ‘the stoned one’, a standing epithet of Satan, who is symbolically stoned by pilgrims at Minā; the girl’s stone falls on the enemy as on something accursed. ʿIrḍ is honour in the sense of personal and family dignity, above all a woman’s, so the line gains its sharpest edge in a girl’s mouth. ↩
  6. Lammū al-shaʿath, ‘gather up what is dishevelled’, is an idiom for restoring unity and order to what has fallen apart; shaʿath is literally tangled, unkempt hair. The children turn from their own resolve to rebuke the Arab world for its disunity and idleness while the enemy acts. ↩

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