1. Your love, your love, while the world has concerns,
And for young men, a time of tranquility.

2. Events and nights disturb me,
While your love is protected from their turmoil.

3. You thought that my tears had flowed for another,
And that yearning and sorrow had calmed.

4. Patience - the most wretched love is a love
That suspicion has crept into its sides.

5. Before me, sleeplessness had wearied a people,
Yet neither hearts nor eyes grew tired.

6. If I consulted my mind about you,
A sensible intellect would unveil my confusion.

7. It finds nothing binding passions
Except a love on which sturdy honor is built.

8. And what prevents me is sought by a soul
That cares not if events do not care.

9. Knowledge and refined lineage raised it,
And morals that are precious wealth.

10. The free man has naught, if fates are counted,
Save his morals in them to aid him.

11. If morals do not prevent their folk
Fortresses and castles make him permitted.

12. You are his life, precious Nile,
And you are the pillar of his kingdom.

13. You turn back the wonders of events from him,
Fears that are humbled and submit.

14. If Egypt’s wishes go astray one day,
A clear light from you guides them.

15. And if its positions waver in the nights,
Certainty ignites from your crown.

16. Light the path of life for us, for we
Were led astray by darkness and glooms.

17. Counsel every free and noble mind
Who has lineage and faith among his people.

18. He consults you, never failing to advise,
Nor wronging you with what he betrays.

19. Does the royal palace rise high
When its edges are inclined by branches?

20. Ask history and see what it has prepared
For you, nations and centuries.

21. Lessons of fate and eras among them
Are in Baghdad and Andalusia's arts.

22. The scholars went astray, so morals were chaos -
Savages that neither herded nor gentled.

23. We walk in fearful blindness,
Death lurking in its sides.

24. I saw the people and proverbs gathered
On what was the state of its owner.

25. Kingdoms are not kept for vanities
That are steered by depravity and immorality.

26. When the righteous ones go astray, there is no guide,
And if the shepherds betray, there is no trustee.

27. Most wondrous is a starved people I see
Shepherded by a fat shepherd.

28. Their ignorance lost the East,
And an endemic disease destroyed it.

29. Obeying desires made weak souls among them
That took prohibitions lightly.

30. They were as conquering lions in glory,
So glory was lost and the den was plundered.

31. When a community's passion conquers it,
I guarantee it a destroyed life.

32. Precious Nile, hopes are thirsty,
Twisting in yearning, and you are the plentiful water.

33. The horizons prepared wholesome things for it,
Free of turbidity and mire.

34. The young rejoiced at the spectacle they saw,
While the elders bore misfortunes and adversities.

35. I see the elders of the people, if ignorant of what
Events are folded over, as small.

36. If they laugh amid processions sometimes,
I have wept over the countries again and again.

37. Each day they appoint for its people
A king who humiliates their necks tyrannically.

38. The governors ridiculed us, so they went a way
That filled us with shame and spilled disgrace.

39. O people of the Nile, what can you want
When fate cracked your kingdom, so it faded?

40. Most people are most ignorant
Of kingdoms - who sees the ignorant as worthy of rule?

41. The most deserving people of glory are a people
Who lived free in their land, independent.

42. Fill the land with effort, O people of the Nile,
And immerse the two worlds in knowledge and merit.

43. You take misleading desire as religion
And count the invalid as occupation.

44. Did you reckon war of nights as peace
And think oppression of events as justice?

45. Follow truth zealously and stubbornly with my head -
Sufficient for you is the jesting of past times.

46. With the Nile is a flood that goes on,
And I see each flood unfold.