"Mawtini" (My Homeland) (Arabic: موطني) is a popular poem written by a Palestinian famous poet Ibrahim Touqan (Arabic: إبراهيم طوقان) around 1934 in Palestine and became the defacto unofficial national anthem of Palestine. The original music was composed by Muhammad Fuliefil (Arabic: محمد فليفل). During the years it became very popular through the Arab world.

Listen to the original performance^*

Recently it was adopted as the national anthem of Iraq replacing the old anthem Ardh Alforatain

Arabic Lyrics

مَــوطِــنــي مَــوطِــنِــي

الجـلالُ والجـمالُ والسَّــنَاءُ والبَهَاءُ

فـــي رُبَــاكْ فــي رُبَـــاكْ

والحـياةُ والنـجاةُ والهـناءُ والرجـاءُ

فــي هـــواكْ فــي هـــواكْ

هـــــلْ أراكْ هـــــلْ أراكْ

سـالِماً مُـنَـعَّـماً وَ غانِـمَاً مُـكَرَّمَاً

هـــــلْ أراكْ فـي عُـــلاكْ

تبـلُـغُ السِّـمَـاكْ تبـلـغُ السِّـمَاك

مَــوطِــنِــي مَــوطِــنِــي

مَــوطِــنِــي مَــوطِــنِــي

الشبابُ لنْ يكِلَّ هَمُّهُ أنْ تستَقِـلَّ أو يَبيدْ

نَستقي منَ الـرَّدَى ولنْ نكونَ للعِــدَى

كالعَـبـيـــــدْ كالعَـبـيـــــدْ

لا نُريــــــدْ لا نُريــــــدْ

ذُلَّـنَـا المُـؤَبَّـدا وعَيشَـنَا المُنَكَّـدا

لا نُريــــــدْ بـلْ نُعيــــدْ

مَـجـدَنا التّـليـدْ مَـجـدَنا التّليـدْ

مَــوطِــنــي مَــوطِــنِــي

مَــوطِــنِــي مَــوطِــنِــي

الحُسَامُ و اليَـرَاعُ لا الكـلامُ والنزاعُ

رَمْــــــزُنا رَمْــــــزُنا

مَـجدُنا و عـهدُنا وواجـبٌ منَ الوَفا

يهُــــــزُّنا يهُــــــزُّنا

عِـــــــزُّنا عِـــــــزُّنا

غايةٌ تُـشَــرِّفُ و رايـةٌ ترَفـرِفُ

يا هَـــنَــاكْ فـي عُـــلاكْ

قاهِراً عِـــداكْ قاهِـراً عِــداكْ

مَــوطِــنِــي مَــوطِــنِــي

Latin Alphabet Transliteration

mawṭinī mawṭinī

al-ǧalālu wa-l-ǧamālu wa-s-sanā'u wa-l-bahā'u

fī rubāk fī rubāk

wa-l-ḥayātu wa-n-naǧātu wal-hanā'u wa-r-raǧā'u

fī hawāk fī hawāk

hal arāk hal arāk

sālimān munaʿamān wa ġānimān mukarramān

hal arāk fī ʿulāk

tabluġu s-simāk tabluġu s-simāk

mawṭinī mawṭinī

mawṭinī mawṭinī

aš-šabābu lan yakilla ʿuzmah an yastaqilla aw yabīd

nastaqī mina r-radá wa lan nakūna li-l-ʿidā' kālʿabīd

lā nurīd lā nurīd

ḏullanā mu'abbada wa ʿayšanā munakkada

lā nurīd bal nuʿīd

maǧdanā t-talīd maǧdanā t-talīd

mawṭinī mawṭinī

mawṭinī mawṭinī

al-ḥusāmu wa-l-yarāʿu lā l-kalām wa-n-nizāʿu

ramzunā ramzunā

maǧdunā wa ʿahdunā wa wāǧibun ilá l-wafā'

yahuzzunā yahuzzunā

ʿizzunā ʿizzunā

ġāyâtun tušarrifu wa rāyâtun turafrifu

yā hanāk fī ʿulāk

qāhirān ʿidāk qāhirān ʿidāk

mawṭinī mawṭinī

English Translation

My homeland My homeland

Glory and beauty

Sublimity and prettiness

Are in your hills

Life and deliverance

Pleasure and hope

Are in your air

Will I see you?

Safe and comfortable

Sound and honored

Will I see you?

In your eminence

Reaching the stars

My homeland

My homeland

The youth will not get tired

Their goal is your independence

Or they die

We will drink from death

But we will not be slaves to our enemies

We do not want

An eternal humiliation

Nor a miserable life

We do not want

But we will reestbalish

Our great glory

My homeland

My homeland

The sword and the pen

Are our symbols

Not talking nor quarreling

Our glory and covenant

And a duty to be honest

Shake us

Our glory

Is an honorable cause

And a waiving standard

O, behold your felicity

In your eminence

Overwhelming your foes

My homeland

My homeland

External links

• Anthem Original Performance ^*

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