Wake Up! (Translated from Arabic)

Wake up! 

Wake up!

There is a house for me near the farthest mosque*

The Chosen**, choose it for me

BUT I lost it to lies

So wake up! Wake up!

And turn your face to the Chosen

For  these children***became 

Elders before the break of dawn.

Enough sleeping!

Enough dreaming!

For the night has cleared

And the dawn has glowed 

And the figs and olives have ripened

So wake up! Wake  up!

And turn your face to the Chosen

For  these children became 

Elders before the break of dawn.

Fifty years and more

And the sweetheart**** is heartbroken 

And the childhood friend is 

Waiting for a traveler who promised her to come back And  to love her forever. 

So wake up! Wake up!

For  those children became  

Elders before the break of dawn

*The Chosen-(المصطفي) refers typically to the profit Muhammad  (pbuh)- meant to be metaphorical as the mosque was built many after he died. 

** the farthest mosque is referred it as Al-Aqsa mosque in Arabic (مسجد الاقصي)

***children refers to the Palestinian children living under the Israeli occupation. 

****sweatheart refers to Jerusalem and Palestine in general.