Ya Zahrat al-Mada'in (English Translation) - Rare Music Video (1967) - Fairuz Song for Palestine

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¹ In Islamic belief, the Israa' and Mi'raj refer to the two stages of the miraculous night journey undertaken by the Prophet Muhammad: first from Mecca to Jerusalem, and then from Jerusalem (specifically the Dome of the Rock) to the heavens
² The Temple Mount, referred to by both Muslim and Christian Palestinians as Bayt al-Maqdis ("the Holy House"), is the area on which Masjid al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock are built, and where the Temples of Solomon are alleged to have stood
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This week I was originally going to translate and upload an old album of beautiful dhikrs from the Shadhili Hamidi Sufi order (the Egyptian branch of the Shadhili Sufi order), but in light of recent events in Palestine and Israel's latest atrocities against the Palestinian people, I decided to delay those and instead upload this rare music video of one of Fairuz's best songs.
Fairuz is probably the most famous and most loved singer alive in the Arab world today, and like the rest of the people in this video she is a Lebanese Christian. The music video is from 1967, when it was produced and shown as part of the 1967 Cedars International Festival in Lebanon.
As well as being the best song about Palestine I've ever heard, Zahrat al-Mada'in is also a masterpiece on its own, split up into three different stages/emotions like Bohemian Rhapsody, but released almost 10 years before it.
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Following the illegal, forced evictions of Palestinian residents to make way for Israeli settlers in Sheikh Jarrah during the middle of Ramadhan, the Palestinian people have suffered provocations from far-right Israeli marches, constant invasions of Masjid al-Aqsa, and an onslaught of Israeli airstrikes throughout Ramadhan. As of the 13th May, 64 Palestinians and 7 Israelis have lost their lives, and the conflict only looks to be getting much worse.
You can help by raising awareness of the Palestinian cause, attending pro-Palestinian protests in your area, and contacting your MP to bring up the inhumane treatment and illegal occupation of the Palestinian people in Parliament.
#Fairuz
#AlQuds
#Palestine

[@user-ek7xm3hu1w]

And she just rejected the offer of 5 millions US dollars from Saudi Arabia to sing there, and told them to send it to the children of Gaza instead. She's a very wonderful person ❤

[@francescaa7093]

Bless her ❤❤❤🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿

[@BM-uc8ny]

ohh god bless her every single day of her life, we are so so blessed to have her

[@tamarab2970]

hey, where can i find the source for this?

[@Rm.d.n]

Source?

[@Vizion-f2m]

No source what so ever to what you said. You thought it would be a good comment to create a story?

[@Nyla_]

My husband is from Gaza and plays this often at home. Fairouz is a legend! Love her and Palestine

[@hamsa3346]

May Allah protect his relatives in Gaza

[@Nyla_]

@@hamsa3346 Ameen BarakAllahu feek Unfortunately the grandmother died, because they couldn't get her to Türkiye for cancer treatment. Allah yerhama

[@michellecypresshill4451]

She sang so much for the war in LEBANON! She makes me cry and her Musik is so precious❤️

[@roshirae16]

Long live Palestine! Our hearts are with you, we see you, we are with you 🇵🇸❤️

[@eustephanylima]

I'm listening to this song in Brazil, crying for the Palestinians and with pain in my heart that we don't have a voice against the Colonists. Imperialism will never be stronger than our will to live! FREE Palestine, from the river to the sea!

[@lt8842a]

Same thing happens to me every time I listen to this song. Her words ring true to this moment and speak about those who are true natives to the land and who love Al Quds more than the colonizers

[@BM-uc8ny]

Brazil stands with Palestine!!!!!

[@lukitasmol10]

A PALESTINA SERÁ LIVRE DO RIO AO MAR 🍉

[@microcolonel]

The peaceful holy land that she sings for is NOT the one that ‘Palestine’ activists look for today. The ‘our’ and ‘we’ she sings of includes the “temples, ancient churches, and mosques”, not Arab Muslims ruling the whole land to the exclusion of the interests of Christians and Jews.

[@Copesp_06]

Sudação revolucionária, camarada! Brasil está ao lado da Palestina! Os nossos irmãos palestinos serão livres do Rio ao Mar.

[@andrulemon]

Fairuz is one of the greatest artists of all time. Her voice is amazing and the range and depth of the music she recorded is so beyond belief.

[@madjidhamdini8114]

As a child , everytime when this son come from raddio or tv or cassettes we were happy , singin this one ^^ Free palestine ^^

[@cheapsentiment]

Temple, church and mosque is a symbol of Palestine

[@bmc9504]

I believe in religious freedom, it should be labeled the Holy Land. Not Palestine. Like the Vatican, it is its own thing.

[@swtnr]

​@@bmc9504no one said in Palestine you can't be Christian or Jewish however Israel is a Jewish state made for Jewish people only. There is the difference 🙏🏼

[@bmc9504]

​@@swtnrthe Romans gave the name Palestine. It has since caused controversy.

[@swtnr]

@@bmc9504 don't even try to bring your Zionist nonsense here, I know my history 🙏🏼 have a nice day 🙏🏼

[@سارهجمال-ب4ز]

​@@bmc9504 The Prophet Abraham, peace be upon him, lived in this land and he was not a Jew. So, O Zionist, donate tranquilizers because your displaced Zionist friends are committing suicide in hotels.

[@VALiantiosous]

This took my breathe away. An absolute masterpiece. Glory to God! Free Palestine!

[@curiousmind8510]

Liberty and justice, independence and peace, happiness and health, victory for Palestinians! Love and prayers from Uzbekistan! 🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿♥️♥️♥️🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@dzslayer0769]

I had 5 maybe 6 years old when i use to listen to this song with my lovley mother and she used to say defending Jérusalem is our duty and god will judg us for it and still listen to it with tears of sadness and overwhelming rage for whats happening in gaza and all palestine From algeria with love 🇩🇿 From the river to the sea palestine will be free

[@AGAQUL]

Amén. PALESTINA LIBRE 🇵🇸❤️‍🩹

[@1goal1]

Ameen ❤

[@jonjohns8145]

My Love to the Land of the Million Martyrs .. You showed the way. Palestine will be free,

[@MellySmith-ip7yu]

Our hearts are with our brave brothers and sisters in Palestine ❤ Never give up the fight. Allah says that when our ummah is suffering, we feel their pain and struggles. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@TheOne-fe8wk]

Free Palestine from your neighbors, Greece 🇬🇷

[@thousifa7133]

Goosebumps every time I listen to this. Always brings tears to my eyes. Ya Allah Please protect our Palestinian people always. حَسْبُنَا اللّٰهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيْلُ

[@UchihaSmko]

Kurdistan is with Palestine ❤

[@BarbarraBay]

there is no Kurdistan. Kurds are historically mountain people.

[@UchihaSmko]

@@BarbarraBay think about the irony you're commenting

[@BarbarraBay]

@@UchihaSmko there is no irony because Kurds are Iranian/Persian people who wandered in various mountain ranges. It is actually proposed the word "Kurd" is derived from the term for "nomad" or "tent-dwellers". For whatever reason (unknown to me), often people (such as the Druze & Maronites of Lebanon) lived in the mountains to escape various persecutions. Currently, for example, Kurds, who were in the past given refuge in Syria, are now aligned with imperialist forces such as the USA to seize lands unwarranted for them. I have Lebanese friends who claim all of Lebanon belongs to them and I simply reply to them: "Your mere great-grandfathers are from the mountains. You should return there to herd goats, lambs & make kibbeh". Kurds are mere nomadic people who lived in the mountain ranges for whatever reasons.

[@BarbarraBay]

in summary, Kurds appear to be puppets of US-Zionist imperialism.

[@UchihaSmko]

@@BarbarraBay 😂😂

[@yonag9071]

This is proof we lived in peace (christians and Muslim), before You Know Who came and ruined it

[@mightymakara947]

They were also there before.. lets keep a cool head.

[@yonag9071]

@@mightymakara947 what do you mean

[@houuuuuuuuuuu495]

@@mightymakara947 the zionist weren’t there tho

[@rjksuffolk1304]

Ur talking about Zionist of course … all Abraham’s children live together in peace… until European Zionist decided to steal.

[@calliopedollhouse259]

Jews did exist and it’s important to not erase Jewish Palestinians, however Zionist don’t care abojr that and also kill Jewish Palestinians

[@MrMeddhi]

Masterpiece of Art ❤️ 🇵🇸❤️

[@mohammedebrahim2625]

Love this ❤️ Long live Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸.. Lots of love from South Africa 🇿🇦🇿🇦

[@irenezafar966]

jerusalem belongs - like all territories - to God never tread on the toe of thisj fairuz, what a voice, how much she has sustained me without knowing irene

[@RoamingLebanese]

For translation press CC button

[@lampbox6609]

May all things for Palestine be good from the river to the sea! 🇵🇸

[@madjidhamdini8114]

Allah allah that voice ^^ Fayrouz god bless you Love from Belgium by a boy growin in Algiers with this song :)

[@crossfit3704]

Pour une Palestine libre et son peuple heureux ❤❤❤❤❤

[@ArnavKhode]

I watched this in my Arab Politics class at Rutgers, and this proves that she is a great singer to this day!

[@mosoliman4489]

تحيا فلسطين و يحيا شعبها الباسل اقسم بالله دم شهداءك لن يذهب هدر

[@elizabethh.8002]

What an amazing video. Love Fairuz and pray for Jerusalem!!! 🙏❤️🇵🇸

[@milsamyones]

I have been crying to this song for the last year…and cry

[@Dragon34th]

Best of the best. Musically and spiritually uplifting. 🥰 There none like Fairuz.

[@xathyrus7043]

My boyfriend showed me this amazing song, im here for Lebanon and Palestine forever.

[@RoddieH]

This video is as timeless as ever, ya akh. Thank you for posting it.

[@mayaaitaissi416]

Masterpiece

[@sisvstwins8809]

Aten! Quds is ours 🙏✨️🇵🇸

[@yanetevenstar]

Palestine will be free soon ❤

[@nz7921]

Free of what? And what will it do when it's free? Conquer the West?

[@BM-uc8ny]

in our lifetimes ❤

[@swtnr]

@@nz7921you 🤡

[@thechels3454]

Que viva Jerusalem. Que viva Gaza. Palestina sería LIBRE LIBRE LIBRE ❤🇵🇸

[@queeneenaa]

Fayrous tidak hanya menyuarakan tentang keindahan cinta namun cinta yg lbh tinggi, cinta pada tanah air. Fayrous your song have been the fire in the chest tht warrior in Arab. Listening to your song, made me Palestinian too. This song is truly amazing with the effect of theatrical in in. Made it more powerful beside its lyrics

[@mohadalimunna3400]

Why I bcm emotionally when I hear fairuz singing 😢😢😢❤

[@waseemqureshi5979]

Palestine ♥

[@offanalucia]

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free 🇵🇸

[@inshad.wa.muwashahat]

يا قدس🖤

[@nafdikyaaqsa]

يا ارض المقدس 🤍

[@susanpower-q5q]

Thank you for translating into English Merci and Sukran

[@sisvstwins8809]

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 ✨️ 🙏💪♥️

[@nz7921]

Free Palestine of Hamas, their oppressor !

[@Xaniinie]

@@nz7921😂

[@Mafusi1961]

Heart going beautiful song and text!

[@balanbaalis123]

Strong voice Fairouz ❤❤❤

[@soulfulsanctuary_]

I can’t help but cry seconds into this song

[@BM-uc8ny]

FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA

[@Honeycombxo]

While born in Lebanon, she’s actually Assyrian ❤ beautiful

[@monocle8868]

No. Only her father was Syrian, a member of the Orthodox Assyrian Church. Her mother was a Lebanese, a member of the Eastern Catholic Maronite Church. Being raised to attend Syriac Orthodox Liturgy; She converted to Greek Antiochian Orthodox Christian upon marrying her husband, Assi Rahbani. They have four children.

[@Mouneer1981]

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free

[@zaborszkytatiana]

Free Palestine!

[@nyttyaazugar1029]

the text and meaning is current

[@bmc9504]

Love her!

[@justiceforallopressed]

One Day Justice will be served to everyone who got treated unjustly, Insha Allah

[@afzanazhari9122]

Free palestine

[@MoonMoon-pe4dy]

Ohhhh farouz ya rabi y hafedna. 09.2024.....

[@pappa6085]

زهرة المدائن كلمات الشاعر الكبير سعيد عقل

[@SS-gh6jy]

❤🇵🇸

[@ghostface310-]

All power and glory to Palestine.

[@imanekml8137]

THE BEST

[@mina-zc5lq]

FREE PALESTINE🇵🇸

[@stpredrag2778]

❤

[@dupe8383]

What does Raadee (from the chorus) mean?

[@abdallahalmahri7426]

Atin آتٍ means it’s coming

[@ZainabHassan-g4s]

allhamdullilah

[@mkkaashif9065]

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@Youcef-se7ct]

Peace in the world

[@ayax7545]

free palestine 🇵🇸

[@starshr1ne]

FREE PALESTINE 😤❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🏼💎💎💎💎💎💎

[@mazm710]

Where is the English translation

[@jackdavids2723]

Press on the cc symbol

[@afzanazhari9122]

I wish there is a translatiin

[@afzanazhari9122]

Me too

[@blackcatmuezza9338]

There is. You have to press the CC button.

[@afzanazhari9122]

@@blackcatmuezza9338 Thank you so much

[@sibungaraya]

Where is this ?

[@nviscalling5752]

Palestine will be free 🍉

[@TADWAJ92]

🇵🇸

[@luyoha_]

❤❤❤

[@yapadek3098]

C'est une chanson chrétienne chantée par une libanaise chrétienne ou je rêve ?

[@kimmisha1775]

Fayrouz is a Christian

[@swtnr]

c'est une chanson de solidarité sur la ville sainte de Jérusalem pas spécialement chrétienne qui a pour but de rassembler peut importe la religion, chrétiens ou musulman c'est ça le message.

[@سارهجمال-ب4ز]

​@@ojycar6419 Thus we realize that the Zionists are enemies of Jews✡️, Christians✝️ and Muslims☪️! How dare they desecrate a sacred land and kill its people?

[@BM-uc8ny]

c'est une chanson pleine de références à plusieurs fois abrahamiques. Jérusalem appartient à Dieu et chacun devrait être libre de la visiter sans soutenir une occupation génocidaire.

[@MarkMoore-l4g]

Harris Robert Jones George Taylor Matthew

[@bibotah]

❣❣❣💗💕

[@AurorasaSima]

Why is Feyrouz, a Persian goddess of music, botted?

[@SomeOne-px4up]

she is not persian

[@ibrahimwaleed2004]

Fairouz is not Persian 💀

[@Decoy1138]

I disagree with your perspective but appreciate the time you put into this good translation

[@microcolonel]

Whose perspective? Do you disagree with the content, or do you disagree with the translation?

[@Decoy1138]

@@microcolonel I was talking about some of the political opinions expressed in the description (incidentally also in the song); I am totally unqualified to critique the translation, but it seems legit and I appreciate the work that went into it

[@microcolonel]

@@Decoy1138 there is much said on either side of the fences that is pathetic and hateful. The piece orients the "temples, ancient churches, and mosques" toward peace, and to look forward to an end of barbarism, which seems like what all decent people would want.

[@Decoy1138]

@@microcolonel Maybe. You might know more about it than me, but I get incredibly strong jingoistic vibes from this song which I do not from, say, Yerushalayim Shel Zahav. The song is also basically silent on the thousands of years of Jewish history in the city, despite all of the discussion of its Christian and Islamic history, which would seem to put its ~600,000 Jewish residents in a very uncertain position in the singer’s irredentist fantasy of reconquering the city. Doesn’t sound like peace to me.

[@microcolonel]

@@Decoy1138 definitely can be used that way, but there has to be something other than killing some day. It's also easy to point and judge when we have the Internet, and 57 years ago in Lebanon there was word of mouth and the news paper.. normal, sane, decent people can be convinced of a lot even today. Also I don't think the lyrics talk of "reconquering" the city, but rather that the people who take it by force will be met with the wrath of God.. which to me seems like a fair enough sentiment; though it does gloss over a lot.

[@kisayadiamantbernat6610]

🍉🍉🍉

[@eurech]

I love Fairuz but how is 'Al-Quds' 'ours' when even its name ultimately comes from the ancient Hebrew nickname 'Ir Ha-Kodes ('city of the holy place') ('holy place' undoubtedly referring to the Jewish temple) for Jerusalem? Be serious please.

[@BarbarraBay]

Jerusalem existed before the Hebrew myth.

[@user-2pysufs39]

you’re not fooling anyone. jerusalem has long since existed before “hebrew”.

[@SomeOne-px4up]

lies, its al quds has no names, al quds translates to the holy, holy is quds and the is al, stop lying to people

[@microcolonel]

Who do you think ‘ours’ is? She is including the temples, the churches, and the mosques in ‘ours’.

[@hajarelijah9965]

Jerusalem is OURS! Palestine will be free !

[@jackna9185]

She is Lebanese, not so called " Palestinian". She is Christian, not Muslim. Yet, she cashed in on a fantasy called "Palestine" by Muslims. Indeed, good business woman

[@Elenaabeli]

Who is claiming her to be Palestinian? Who is calling her "Muslim"?

[@AliAli-uk9nh]

For Arab Christians they know and understand Muslim faith and Arab Muslims also are aware of their Christian counterparts faith. They cooperate together.

[@galadrielalt]

shut up jack 💀 u cant even say muslim correctly in real life, even if your life depended on it.

[@bmc9504]

Before that part of the world was given away, Lebanon was no different to modern day Israel or Palestine. Suddenly their worlds were parted. That's the meaning of the song. Borders were created and people turned into enemies.

[@christianmiller9934]

Palestine has Christian you racist

[@Sentinel48]

@5:25 So powerful

[@qaisyosufzai1369]

Blessed be her soul

[@Israellieseveryonedies]

Does anyone know if this was filmed in Bsharre?

[@mushthaqueahmed3719]

❤

[@mouhchallal8789]

Free palestine