1. With the likes of you two, homes are exalted and prosper
And hopes draw near to them from wherever they are distant

2. You two refused to herd slander except that
Which is broadcast and excused or circulated and praised

3. For your two days in war and peace there is a scene
That delights the eye of whoever looks and witnesses

4. If a bare sword has frightened the enemies
A sound opinion has brought comfort to homelands

5. So blessings upon you two when you shake off
A matter - you do not rise in any matter arrogantly

6. I see them under the sting and jab of poetry
And among them there is none but a subservient weakling

7. They are driven like donkeys under the whip whenever
On the journey they grow weary and struggle on the plain

8. To the darkness of the depths - in it there is no bright one
To give light or from it one ascending to the heights

9. It is as if I see them, having reached it, certain
Of death upon their bedouins creeping up

10. I grieve for homelands whose precincts they permitted
So the hands of enemies in them go about corrupting and ruining

11. Their opinion was scattered between cowardice and greed
And I lost your sound opinion that was wavering

12. I will cry over Egypt and the glory of its past
Even if I have no one from Egypt's people to bring me joy

13. I see today like yesterday or even gloomier
Oh how I wish I knew what tomorrow will bring