.. Trying in vain to be Arab... by the poet Rashad Al-Qaddoumi... عبثا تحاول العروبه للشاعر.. رشاد القدومي

They try in vain. Arabism has seemed deaf and mute. They have no one to hear. They have sold their chivalry, my brother. It has been wasted in humiliation. Everyone seems to be humbled. 

عبثا تحاول العروبة قد بدت

صما وبكما ما بهم من يسمع

باعوا المروءة يا اخي  قد بددت

للذل يبدو الكل فيهم يخشع