One day after the massacre carried out by Hamas in southern Israel, in which over 1,300 people were murdered and over 100 Israelis, including women, children, infants and elderly people, were abducted, the Qatari state daily Al-Sharq published a poem glorifying the "resistance" fighters (i.e., the members of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas) and encouraging them to continue fighting for the sake of Islam.
Titled "Rise Up, Oh Resistance Fighter," the poem, by Al-Sharq columnist Ibrahim bin Hashim Al-Sada, extols the "honorable" and "heroic" actions of the resistance fighters against the "wicked nation." It urges them to "charge" and not to "soften" or "compromise," but rather to "teach the cowards a lesson," "violate the agreements of surrender" and "curse normalization," while stressing that they are shedding their blood for the sake of Islam and that "Islam lives."
The poem in the Qatari daily
The following is a translation of the poem:
"Rise up, Oh Resistance Fighter
Rise up, oh glorious resistance fighter
We award you the medal of heroic combat
Rear up like the terrifying mountains
Be a thorn in the eye of the maligners
Do not heed those who circulate lies
And capitulate to the usurpers
Rise up, oh glorious resistance fighter
Rise like a glowing lamp
To illuminate the darkness
Your struggle has already troubled
The peace of the wicked nation
Your struggle has strung together the [different] peoples, from the Gulf
To the ocean, and nobody could have done it but you
Rise up, oh glorious resistance fighter
Rise up and defend your rights, and do not stop
Do not soften and do not compromise
Violate the agreements of surrender
That were signed by the criminals
Rise up and teach the cowards a lesson
With heroism and honorable deeds
Rise up, oh glorious resistance fighter
Rise up and curse the normalization
And capitulation, for victory is nigh
Saddle your horses and charge
Glory lies at the tip of the sword
Write us a page of glory that will live forever
In the annals of heroism
Rise up, oh glorious resistance fighter
Rise up. This despair
Was caused by turban-wearers[1]
Who deceived their peoples like cattle
The people of destruction that led them to surrender
Rise up, oh glorious resistance fighter
Rise up, this wound will not
Be healed with soft fingers
It is a wound that pains the nation
Of the Islamic religion, but Islam lives
And we spill the blood of sacrifice for its sake
This sanctity is defiled by a group of wretches
Rise up, oh glorious resistance fighter
[1] The reference is to the establishment clerics who serve the Arab regimes and who provided religious sanction to the peace agreements and normalization with Israel.
