1. Awaken your conscience and cast off the veil of laziness
Roll up your sleeves and be zealous for action

2. An age of traditions we sanctify has passed
Yet we do not see the flaws that are in them

3. Traditions have appointed terms
And every age has an end to its time

4. We used to see as heresy what they brought about for us
While everything old to us was eternal

5. The lofty edifice and magnificent decorations decay
While we languish weeping over ruins

6. Or we burn the productive palm grove and admire
The failure of effort and the wiles of ignorance

7. Ages have passed us by and souls continue
In that stagnation, taking their time

8. Our merchants suffer recession, agriculture
Drought, the wretched artisan boredom

9. Eras have passed while the people remained stagnant
Their condition lamentable, confessing failure

10. Until the sun of economics made clear to us
Obscurities that revealed glimmers of hope

11. It pointed with truthful eloquence in its language
Since the hand of achievement, not failure, pled for it

12. It shone in the skies of guidance, spreading
Banners of advice to protect us from loss

13. Thus national goods became abundant in their markets
And the farmer’s hand set to work

14. It flowed freely to the women of the district and drew
From them daily wages, equating them with men

15. It involved them in occupations, employing
The hands of those who complained of afflictions

16. And it sent them to their families, gathering
Subsistence through money and finery

17. What enterprise rivals it
Among enterprises in realms and nations?

18. It is capable of reform and clarification
It is our guide to whatever paths

19. So lend it an ear and open with it your sight
And reap the results through hearing and observation

20. Be as you wish and hold fast to its cord
By it the land lives, on plain and mountain

21. How much advice it dispensed and how many nails it drove
By which the land lives, in plain and generation

22. And how many well-aimed hints it made
And how many hands it extended to banish languor

23. Hurry, fortunate one, to the new door, you will find
Confirmation of my words, clearly, beyond doubt

24. And you will meet honorable people in its precincts
Whose only flaw is immersion in work

25. They have taken on the burdens of tasks that liberate them
Even if time shackles them with shame

26. And everything you see in it is of fine quality
So express admiration thankfully and cite it as an example

27. This administration strives for our interests
O Tunisian, I appeal to you and say

28. So lend it support with outstretched palms
The palms of the helper, and this is the height of hope