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كلّـــــــنا للـــــــوطن للعلـــــى للـــــــعلم ملء عين الـــــــزمن ســـيفنا والــــــقلم ســـــهلنا والجبــــل مــــنبت للـــــرجال قولنـــــا والعمــــــل في ســبيل الكمال كلّـــــــنا للـــــــوطن للعلـــــى للـــــــعلم كلّــــنا للــــوطن شــــــــيخنا والفتى عنـد صوت الوطـن أســــــــد غابٍ متى ســــاورتنا الـــفتن شــــــــرقنا قـــــلبه أبــــــــداً لبنــــــان صانــــــــه ربّــــــــه لمدى الأزمـــــــــان كلّـــــــنا للـــــــوطن للعلـــــى للـــــــعلم كلّــــنا للــــوطن بحــــــــره بـــــــرّه درّة الشــــــــــرقين رفده بــــــــــــــــرّه مــالئ القطـــــــبين إســـــــمه عـــــــزّه مـنذ كـــان الجدود مجـــــــــــــده أرزه رمـــــزه للخلـــــود كلّـــــــنا للـــــــوطن للعلـــــى للـــــــعلم كلّــــنا للــــوطن |
The National Anthem
Adopted in 1927. Lyrics by Rachid Nakhle, Music by Wadih Sabra
| All of us for the Nation, for glory and the Flag The eye of the ages is full of our sword and pen (valour and writings) Our plain and the Mountain are birthgivers of men Our word and work walk the road to perfection All of us for the Nation, for glory and the Flag All of us for the Nation! All of us for the Nation, for glory and the Flag Our elders and our youths are at the Nation's call They are like forest lions when hardship besets us The heart of our East is Lebanon forever, May her God preserve her until end of time. All of us for the Nation, for glory and the Flag All of us for the Nation! All of us for the Nation, for glory and the Flag Her sea and her land are the pearl of the two Orients Her helpfulness and good faith fill the two poles Her name is her honor and power since the generations came to be Her greatness is her Cedar, her symbol till the end of times All of us for the Nation, for glory and the Flag All of us for the Nation! |
[Note: I used the pronoun "her" because it sounds better in English, but Lebanon is actually the only country in the Arab world whose name in Arabic is masculine. ]
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