1. Greet the crescent moon and greet the nation of the Nile
And welcome the feast, the feast of the age and generation

2. O year that brings closer all hopes
And nears all expectations

3. Give glad tidings with the most truthful news of wishes, O nations
Time has declined upon them with falsehoods

4. Hope grew long so all consolations from sorrows wearied
And all arguments expired

5. Reveal to us from the unseen's mysteries what misfortunes'
Veils concealed of what was postponed and delayed

6. Indeed I see the matter's mirages
In a truthful one of God's covenants, requested

7. The prophet walks with it and the progeny hastening
And the Spirit between exaltations and praises

8. Flowing from revelation, whoever denies its majesty
God reveals to him the awe of Gabriel

9. Whoever prevents the matter, God fulfills its certainty
And repels falsehood from an inspiration and a revelation

10. O summoner of despair, hoping to frighten us
Look to the signs, did they waver with changes?

11. What makes you doubt when you want to lead us astray
From a promised time in God's protections, guaranteed?

12. O year, release from our positions in Egypt
Every captive of the plains, shackled

13. And ask its supreme pulpits, did they not tremble
When time fell with heavy calamities?

14. They were platforms every transgressor guided
With what they say, and heals every crazed

15. When they declaimed with them, their sides shook
And the earth shook, of vast breadth and length

16. The people do not know, did they bring clear proofs
Of an amazing saying, or did they come with a Gospel?

17. The prophets and God's messengers we know them
The most faithful guides, and the most preferred of them

18. They were given certainty so no ambitions failed them
No army remained on earth except vanquished

19. Crowns fell from them in awe
From the heads of the weak and toppled

20. Ranks of virtue were not judged for one with conceit
And not opened for the weak in power, debased

21. And the truth - if not for the proud souls raising it -
Every vile soul would deem it lowly outcast

22. Were it not for resolves, no hand would win a feat
And no soul would rejoice in veneration

23. Indeed, the swords let every marked one
Succumb to their terror and every coward flee

24. The Prophet exemplified for us, in his emigration days
Sincere determination, an ununknown law

25. He walked the truth, the winds of misguidance did not shake his resolve
And he did not care for intimidation

26. Quraysh grew angry so every unsheather
With arms that sever the Indian sword drawn

27. Seeking to kill an assailant ravaging
A religion for them protected in the idols' sanctuary

28. He does not frighten people, whether few or many
In a revered pursuit of God or a messenger

29. He intended to go to Medina, gathering his resolve
By God's ordainment of a matter to be done

30. So he sought refuge in the cave, and its sides rose high
With the protection of the lion, and the cubs and the forest

31. When he saw the darkness of the truthful one, he unveiled it
With an illumination from God's clear proofs

32. So the steadfast soul and certainty returned through it
And answered what was of assumption and imagination

33. And through God's Messenger determination flowed
It casts aside difficulties and twists past obstacles

34. Misguidance marches its troops so he strikes it
With a blade in God's right hand unsheathed

35. Until truth rose in horizons and the whiteness of laws spread
Guiding every lost one

36. And good gathered, walking after his death
Over blood of inviters to evil, spilled

37. They extended a rope of mischief but he pushed it back with a
Hand whose strength overwhelmed, so it remained unbound

38. He shot arrows at kings, leaving no openings for them
Beside attacks, undeterred and unbroken

39. He topples a throne with a throne, Caesar's flew
From it, and he hurls a crown with a crown

40. The soul defeats if its determination is sound
Splitting armies and sinking armadas

41. And the protected glory is unattained by its seeker
Except through a blood-stained throat offered

42. How far from success is one with no resolve
Who wasted the matter between saying and telling

43. The people are of two kinds, all work
Seeking life, and of kinds like statues

44. O Egypt that stands farewelling it
Take your place after time has passed or settled

45. How grave upon you were it not for what reassures us
Of God's power that has become inevitable

46. The eye sees nothing showing her
Except it saw beside it Ezrael's statue

47. When deaths pounced confused, frightened by them
Is the uproar of one fateful upon lifespans ripped

48. No neck was released except flowing in a predetermined
Lifespan shackled in the hands of fate chained

49. A soul that flies and another that has no peace
Except upon a number hoped for and expected

50. The weak call upon a right with no protector
Far from defenders, entrusted to the Judge

51. He does not see guidance in a matter he plans
Nor turns to an opinion and reasonable

52. Recurring misfortunes that did not calm their horrors
From an Egyptian man or busy

53. We did not forget Egypt, and our resolves were not fooled
By what they told us of the long-necked and the ghoul

54. We walked the path seeking a reasonable plan
That would erase suspicions and negate interpretations

55. The pursuit of glory is no innovation among nations, nor
Is the rightful in his quest ever rejected

56. Who taught people that truth will be pushed
By the falsity of tales or the vileness of deeds?

57. They said, O multitudes that disgrace covers their sides
So the lions roared protecting the Nile's dignity

58. And Egypt approached, its people walking in groups
Of defenders, and diverse troops

59. Guiding the winds of fragrances and greens
Dyed with tears of parting, spilled

60. No tender white-skinned virgin remained in its bosom
Nor chaste mothers of highborn boys

61. Rage blazed when its anklets rang softly
Among its bracelets and anklets

62. Reciting verses of signs enchantingly
Increasing in beauty of recital and chant

63. Egypt shouts, and every mother of Egypt
And father, unfailing, shouts

64. Whoever feared violent trials befalling him
Does not remain lifetimes suffering trials

65. They said peace, so their cry shook the universe
From a meadow with the blood of heroes, shed

66. And orphaned hands unleashed cries and blew them
And mouths of infants, bereaved

67. And they gave us glad tidings of what the president exemplified for us
Of a law of clear proofs and details

68. And they misled time in what they told it
Until it passed between entrusting and delegation

69. The matter is not hard when the nation supports it
With its shoulders, and casts it easily

70. Today, the free people of nations incline
To a promise for Egypt, of old covenant breached

71. If it was said, the day we rise, our promise is
They would say, hastening, "We have come at your service!"

72. God prevents what His care willed
Not to be permitted, and refuses all trespassing

73. Look to the House, did its sanctities disappear
When the elephant's rider attacked it?

74. He pelted it with flocks of birds filling the air
Diving at it and stoning it with burning stones

75. We - by the life of the Exalted - they assumed vain assumptions about us
Not of the weak, nor the worthless people

76. We rise to the highest honor, and raise us
A glory for us we did not increase except in enacting

77. Steadfast over time, if its quakes clash
Twisting mountains and hurling them in change

78. We protect Egypt and guard it with what it knows
Of strong shields and chainmail

79. Those hearts that keep its secrets safeguarded
From every melting youth in it, burning in fervor

80. The strongest beasts recoil from them even if
Worries toyed with them and left them like rags

81. Passion did not cease overflowing in its sides
Until it infected them with a chronic disease

82. O Egypt, your year is a year of good, so expect in it
Wishes, and trust in shifts

83. God has given you the bounty which has grown great
Will God deprive bounty after bestowing?

84. God did not break a promise nor did the hopes of a nation
Blessed with God's gentleness, fail