1. Does Egypt ask what the leader has brought
And if the archers have anything new?

2. It is the arrow that it knew of old
Whose might the enduring people have tried

3. A rebel arose and an oppressor prevailed
And the shooting did not cease asking for more

4. O Savior of India, in Egypt there is a people
It would pain you if the Indians submitted

5. So be fair to Egypt and oppose the people in it
When discourse flows and they are witnesses

6. The peaceful did not see what you desire
Nor did the bargaining know what you want

7. Leave the leaders be, for with us they have a debt
Which the judicious people will hold them to sans other

8. When they speak of leadership it is a claim
Through which the crafty scheme against the crafty

9. And the countries do not remain if
Stricken by those who seek leadership to gain

10. The invaders of the people and the people who yield
And the hordes of cavalry and the troops

11. They shot him with it and the arrow took from him
The rest of what the stubborn foe had shot

12. Consider, do you see anything but a ray
Scattered in the air that does not return?

13. The scattering Winnowers take it swiftly
Creatures whose storm has no stillness

14. As if when the decree of God befell them
They were ʿĀd or Thamūd of old

15. For whom do factions scheme so diversely
And what are these lightning bolts and clamors?

16. They assembled for turmoil and the nation fell
Slain at their hands, a martyr it died

17. Its spoils are dragged to them
And its funeral for the nations is a feast

18. Their throngs clamor joyously when
The tearful eulogist laments its plight

19. To the crafty I am done with people
Who lost it, for it has no existence

20. We spent our lives seeking it but our ways parted
And efforts failed and hopes dashed

21. By your life, what hopes promise
Is enough for the soul if promises kept!

22. Leader of usurpers, you descended on a land
Where usurpers perish but it does not perish

23. The One Irresistible protects it
When your armies defeat whoever protects

24. Do you remember when your people wished
And Cromer had harsh tyranny?

25. His troops would hunt us
And hunt from the flock of doves what they hunted

26. Do you remember Denshawai and how
Its sides almost collapsed upon its people?

27. It shrieks from torment and there is no way
To aught but torment and no respite

28. It stood with no descent to relieve it
Or passing away and no rising up

29. Had it wings it would have ranged
Far among the eagles in breadth

30. Fate would have turned misfortunes upon the people
Destinies that resentments deliver

31. They waged against the weak a war
With unceasing injustice that does not sleep

32. Neither gallows tire of victims
Nor whips and leather ever sate

33. If youth and elder recoiled therefrom
Neither infant nor newborn were safe

34. The criminals punish us with no book
To establish justice or laws

35. The swords of the soldiers are the face of every right
And Cromer's view is the sound view

36. Do you remember when we would blame him and he would rage
And thunder in his threats ominously?

37. We grasped him with a shaking that pressed
Upon him and doubts cleared away

38. We cracked his pillar and he collapsed crumbling
And the boulder altogether melted, and iron

39. A lofty mountain of injustice fell
And a built fortress collapsed, harm intended

40. And we stand for Egypt's right
When the submissive people surrender

41. We will defend Egypt if calamities recur
But we ourselves are openhanded

42. These are protected compacts and pacts
Cromer and Lloyd do not desire

43. Saxon brother, were you told that we
Are disobedient to your people or slaves?

44. They have lied to you, for among us there is none
For whom coercion is appropriate when he dislikes

45. When delegations flock to you, beware
The consequences of what the delegations say

46. None rules Egypt, and in the people is no
Cowardice or stillness

47. The world of shackles has passed, and that is a world
Disdained in which shackles are scorned

48. Are those our abodes or are we dead
With tombs erected for us and shrouds?

49. We protected what forebears protected before
And the ancestral blood protected for us and the Nile

50. A land that cannot be sold and remnants
Whose origin is eternity and endurance

51. In Egypt, do my cries reach a people
Who are blazing flames and fuel?

52. The most dutiful among them finds fault
And the kindest people give sincere advice

53. They saw the proof of their poet so they inclined away
For events has its eloquent poet

54. He pelted them with censures—no doubt—
When faces are pelted there is no denial

55. With him billow the scrolls of the tribulations of fate
Black pages of speeches destiny has wrought

56. For him in every time there is something new
Of calamities for which a poem is composed

57. From him misfortunes strike us
At their places, and the people have good fortune

58. But by those exerting for aught but Egypt
Our ancient blood and it have stumbled

59. When resignation spreads among people
The most feeble nation can prevail?