Allahu Akbar (Lounès Matoub song)
"Allahu Akbar" is a song written by Lounès Matoub. The song illustrated Matoub's contempt for the use of Islamic religion by the Arabs in order to annihilate the language , the traditions and the will of the Berbers.
Allahu Akbar is Arabic for "God is the greatest."
The text in English is as follows :
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In the daytime when permanent calmness came,
We discharged it incontinent;
We said to him: we are at best,
Fed on happiness and on beneficial effects,
Nothing misses in our prosperity,
What fades for ever what we forget one day.
Our looks towards Québla turn,
As though of this place
The wind of respectability had to get up.
God is the greatest! God!
Arabic is the word of God.
It is the language of knowledge,
In no way comparable in the others.
For her, you can throw yourself into the abyss,
Go, topple over, sink there!
Mahomet will carry to your assistance.
Watch out! Do not open again eyes anymore!
Call lords, sing commendations
Of those who bewitch you towards torpor.
God is the greatest! God!
Watch out! Do not appear from sleep!
You here is wandering in the chasms of nature,
The steam of opium for companions.
Consider Québla made drowsy,
Also consider the chérifienne Quaaba,
They are your only lamp.
Bow your forehead and hit it against earth,
No one comes to fluster your prostration,
Listen only to your sidi sheikh:
God is the greatest! God! |
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