All anthems

Sudan

نحن جند الله جند الوطن

Nahnu Jund Allah Jund al-Watan

We Are Soldiers of God, Soldiers of the Homeland

Written 1955

Adopted 1956

Lyrics Ahmed Muhammad Salih

Music Colonel Ahmed Morjan

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Key Facts

1. The statutory anthem is just a single eight-line stanza, the version Sudanese embassies in Cairo and The Hague publish; longer wartime variants in circulation are not officially approved.
2. Ahmed Muhammad Salih wrote the lyrics in 1955, a year before independence, and Colonel Ahmed Morjan composed the music the same year.
3. Sudan kept the anthem unchanged after South Sudan seceded in 2011, when the new state adopted its own song, 'South Sudan Oyee!'.
4. The opening line names the singer as a soldier of God and a soldier of the homeland in the same breath, fusing religious and civic duty more tightly than almost any other Arab anthem.

Lyrics

نحن جند الله جند الوطن إن دعا داعي الفداء لم نخن نتحدى الموت عند المحن نشتري المجد بأغلى ثمن هذه الأرض لنا فليعش سوداننا علماً بين الأمم يا بني السودان هذا رمزكم يحمل العبء ويحمي أرضكم

Translations are non-official and intended to convey meaning, not replace originals

Analysis

Editorial

Sudan adopted the anthem on independence day, 1 January 1956, as the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium dissolved. The poet Ahmed Muhammad Salih wrote the words a year earlier, and Colonel Ahmed Morjan set them to music in the same season. The official text is brief by anthem standards: a single eight-line stanza, the version Sudanese embassies in Cairo and The Hague publish on their letterhead. Longer wartime variants beginning 'We are the lions of the jungle, the sons of wars' have circulated for decades, but none of them is statutory. When South Sudan seceded in 2011, Khartoum kept the song unchanged.