1. Can you see how she inspires with blood
My God for the martyrs if you have no mercy

2. The lowest ranks in chivalry are hers
The lover's union and the longing of the enamoured

3. She offers her greetings so he denies anything less
The hope of the hopeless and the desire of the desperate

4. A man gone astray, killed by Egypt without
Keeping the ally’s pact or the benefactor’s right

5. A beloved who along with blood her love
Flows in the heart of her Christian and Muslim

6. The tyrant over us wants so we accept
And drives us into the pits so we dive in

7. He who takes the martyrs has taken the resolute
And the violator of the Greatest Martyr’s blood

8. She made him a fighter and threw him
As an army for the openings fully armed

9. He plunged into the darkness to guide each brigade
And shake the banners of the blueprint starry sky

10. With only God he seeks what is his
And holds his people’s side collapsed

11. And behold the Caesars behind the couches hiding
As the couches behind the Caesars hiding

12. Each has their own panic and each is wary
Seeking peace but no peace for the sinner

13. Oppression altogether and harm altogether
Are the tyranny of the strong over the weak coerced

14. And of tribulation that it be said to a nation
Seeking life, beware lest you progress

15. The wolves’ greatest enemies are those who see
That nations are the prey of the invaders

16. And consider religions in their great glory
The raider’s sword and the dictator’s claws

17. Say to civilisation after its advocates’ rule
Its advocates are innocent of you if you do no wrong

18. Be gone, for if you sought survival for a need
You would afterwards persist then wither away

19. Can you provide life’s trappings
Or take from fate with a blade?

20. Be as you were among your people, they
Abandoned you drowned in iron and blood

21. Civilisation passed in the glory of its defenders
And they passed in the prime of time’s forefathers

22. Those who raised kingdoms to prominence
And brought them to the place of stars

23. Godfearing amongst its weak
Preserving the sanctuary of the subdued Muslim

24. Uniting its people to guidance
Pouring out the darkness of the blind age

25. Watering all the land with justice
Growing blessings great as boons

26. In a state for God, the horizons all sublime
Supported by the Decisive Book’s signs

27. The age shone because of it and its destiny prevailed
Casting the dark age into darkness

28. Striking in ways of misguidance and blindness
Not guided to the most upright path

29. A people tyrannising others and a nation
Casting another’s claws stripped bare

30. The wounded complains to the wounded, his strength
Venting sorrow and the agony of the suffering

31. The earth glorifying amidst tremors’ shivers
The sky drowning in thunderbolts’ stone-throws

32. Wait, advocates of justice amongst nations
Whose invaders with weapons divided call

33. You disappointed them and because of your injustice
The cruelty of the brutal and wrath of the chewing befell them

34. You roused misfortunes insistently against them
Twisting the virtuous forms of Beauty-Peak

35. Hold back your tongues from provoking a nation
Whose battle-cries to the tongues lead

36. It roared so the nations startled, and only
Remembered the glories of its age long-decayed

37. It sent its messenger to the nations of peace
So he stirred them like sparks bursting out

38. A harsh war against the rebels
Which throws swarms of disasters swirling

39. The darkness’ wanderer, the powerful melter
Coming and going with decisive fate

40. Muhammad’s right shook its banners
The pillar of tolerance and razed tyranny

41. Until al-Amin himself intended
To hand over the banner flawless

42. O Master of Martyrs after his companion
You pleased your Lord in your jihad so triumph

43. Not one who began jihad then did not die
But like the first of a case not yet sealed

44. And the best thing men of resolve gained is boldness
Which averts the shame of requests pressing

45. It takes on the dangerous and fearful, and it sees
That death is the vessel of the bold

46. The refuge of kingdoms and nations, what they own
They wrongly called you a ruinous foreigner

47. From your certainty you have wealth, if fate grants it
The two worlds’ treasures by its value gauged

48. The faithful’s faith is greatest wealth
And the certain one’s conviction the best star

49. Cairo’s scholars roared so all monotheists roared
And what’s between the rubble and Zamzam shuddered

50. And Egypt looked around to see what it had perpetrated
Against Berlin, a great mourning calamity

51. It cracked with lightning bolts like enormous thunder
And cast birds in the horizons inauspicious

52. And it took you uniquely though it knew its guest
The welcome of a celebrant for your like honoured

53. Berlin, do not leave any need for your guest
Except springing for it without reluctance

54. If it rejoices in you do not give it rights
Of kindness, or the hand of the honoured

55. Did you see an undefeated conqueror
And witness the death of a knight undefeated

56. Do not deny it its rights in exile
And if you do not know its place then ask

57. If you are filled horizons then it fills
Tongues, wild beasts, and arrows

58. Egypt the frankincense – no calamity that befell it
Of deep mourning, dire lives, and bitterness touched you

59. It grew tired of enduring tribulations, and whoever
Is the purpose of events each day grows tired

60. Thirsty for the spring of life, so if you want it
You want death in the drivel of spit

61. When kingdoms’ atmospheres shine
Their sides are bent by darker air

62. The sparks of death flare in a breath
Casting souls’ lifespans hostage

63. The free and dignified strive though he walked on
Death creeping between the ribs of the protected

64. They sent their companion to ask what we have
So he dwelled in the position of the deaf mute

65. Seeking eloquence though his quoted words passed
And from fate the expression of what is not hid

66. If we could forbid this talk
For two connected years we would not speak

67. Oh Egypt, enough what you accepted of harm
And you are innocent of your past if you do not avenge

68. The eras of tyranny are gone, rotten,
And the age of the helpless submissive passed

69. She who threw kingdoms made distant
The beds from the drowsy nations

70. The earth runs with the nations hurriedly
So walk in its tracks and be guided

71. If your shackle is not undone then it is
The ethics of the doubtful and qualities of the delusional

72. Go on, for you have nothing else nor children
But observing enmity and defects

73. You who fled we did not break the duty of his affliction
God is your neighbour so rejoice and delight

74. Relieve your worries from your heart, we
Meet worries with every greater calamity

75. The shoulders and souls absolutely
Are Egypt’s redemption from the painful agony

76. What dignity did you preserve for its people
And fulfil what right against you obliged?

77. Its greetings far away, so greet it
And it bid you protected peace

78. You exceeded goodness in serving it
And avoided vilification from those who did not serve

79. The misguided lies, his efforts will not reach you
Unless he reaches the sky with a ladder

80. I swore your possession striving while the free
Is entrusted even if he does not swear

81. You persist in being open-handed to the last
Until you made the self the final desire

82. After crossing the wilds which boat
Bent tongues amidst tumult without bending

83. I echoed my voice in elegy but only
Echoed the voice of the lyre in my mouth

84. Greetings amongst the highest company, and the
Houris of Heaven approached you a forbidden poem

85. My regrets for a traveller’s saddle not
Contained by the days of joy and undesigned greetings