ای هموطن ای نیروی
Ay Hamwatan Ay Neroyee
“O Fellow Countryman, O Force”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026English Translation
O compatriot! O vigorous everlasting power Be glad that once again the star of your deeds has shone O laborer, O worker, you builder of the age The age grew from you and your everlasting power
Rise — for you grapple gently with the powerful wave A people that did not fear the storm of events Be glad that once again the star of your deeds has shone
In this brave and fearless manner of action One must take pride in you and your high endeavor Be glad that once again the star of your deeds has shone
Transliteration
Ay hamwatan! ay neroyee balendaye jawed Khosh bash ke baz akhtar ahmaal tu tabeed Ay ranjbar, ay kare tu sazendaye dawran Dawran ze tu o qodrate jawede tu baleed
Barkhez ke ba mawje qawi panja konad narm Qawme ke ze toofane hawades naherasad Khosh bash ke baz akhtar ahmaal tu tabeed
Ze-ein gonah dilerana ahmal kardane be baak Bayad ba tu o hemat o alaye tu nazeed Khosh bash ke baz akhtar ahmaal tu tabeed
متن اصلی
ای هموطن! ای نيروی بالنده ی جاويد خوش باش که باز اختر اعمال تو تابيد ای رنجبر، ای کاری تو سازنده ی دوران دوران ز تو و قدرت جاويد تو باليد
برخیز که با موج قوی پنجه کند نرم قومی که زطوفان حوادث نهراسيد خوش باش که باز اختر اعمال تو تابيد
زين گونه دليرانه عمل کردن بی باک بايد به تو و همت والای تو نازيد خوش باش که باز اختر اعمال تو تابيد
O compatriot, O vigorous everlasting power — a rare nationalist anthem from Zahir, calling to the laborer and the worker who built the age, celebrating a people that did not fear the storm of events.
About This Recording
Ay Hamwatan Ay Neroyee stands apart in Ahmad Zahir's catalog as one of his most explicitly nationalist recordings. Where most of his songs inhabit the interior space of love poetry, this one addresses the collective — the compatriot (hamwatan), the laborer (kargar), the worker (kogar) — in the language of national pride. Its tone is martial and ceremonial rather than intimate.
The imagery of a 'star of deeds' (star-e a'mal) rising after a period of absence implies that the song is addressing a recovery or renewal — a people whose achievements were obscured and are now visible again. In Zahir's lifetime this could refer to any of several moments of national confidence: the democratic reforms of the early 1960s under the new constitution, the period of relative prosperity in the late 1960s, or specific state occasions for which such songs were sometimes commissioned.
Zahir performed this kind of commissioned or ceremonial song less frequently than his love catalog, but his voice brings even the patriotic register a quality of sincerity that the material sometimes lacks on its own. 'In this brave and fearless manner of action / One must take pride in you' — delivered by the most famous voice in Afghanistan, the pride is personal as well as civic.
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