1. They said: The teacher. I said: I do not exaggerate
If I say: He is the maker of generations

2. If I say: He depicted them, and created their nature
The truth of my words does not anger the Most Merciful

3. The light of the teacher is a sacred breath
From the light of the face of the Exalted Creator

4. And its echo from the voice of God, as if
When Bilal called for prayer, he let it out

5. Others made the deadly rockets
While through his hands the making of men is done

6. He always brings good tidings of peace, and is not one
Who hastens the appointed time of death

7. Your unknown soldier, O Egypt, who
Neither in the early dawn complains, nor in the late evenings

8. In the hour of agony he comes determined
And disappears at the time of dividing the spoils

9. How often they neglected him, yet he did not appear complaining
Or crying from the ailment of neglect

10. It is enough for the teacher - a psychological comfort
That satisfies him when he complains of scarcity

11. There is no happiness after correcting souls
Or after erasing the ignorance of the ignorant

12. What harm has a sound livelihood done to him atop which
Is a cheap garment, or a worn-out shirt

13. How much did the hoarder gain from his hoarding
Except increasing worries and confusion

14. What is the point of excessive buying? There is no shroud
With a pocket to keep money!

15. I have spent my life imprinting chivalry on my students
Imprinting generosity and good manners

16. How much I loved them with my constant kindness
No difference between them and my own children

17. It is enough pride for me: to present to the nation
From my students a hero of heroes

18. O Lord of the most wondrous glory I have encountered
When I asked about him, he turned out to be one of my sons

19. He reciprocates my loyalty in kind
Good is repaid with its like

20. They were my students, and became my brothers
And my dearest friends, and my most honored family

21. Wherever I turned, I found them staring at me
"From my right side and from my left"

22. O you who are fair to workers, why don't you
Place on the workers’ page the name of the teacher?

23. He is a worker, rather a devoted worshipper
The images of worship are manifold

24. O Lord of one lesson that cultivated in me
Glorifications of days, and mentions of nights

25. Sometimes the teacher forgets himself
And his continual struggle does him injustice

26. He sleeps while books are around him
As if he is among hills

27. And I spend the night guiding with lessons, as if
He is in class between a question and an answer

28. Or residing on an island, or swimming
In the sea between the headland and the waterfall

29. Or sinking with Khaled or Tariq
In battle among swords and lofty peaks

30. Or singing to the youth poetry of fervor
Or lamenting ruins from the ruins

31. Or between pyramids, and between circles
Of unknown dimensions and lengths

32. Or between valid pure verbs that have not
Complained of defects, and defective verbs

33. The teacher called before the lions of evil
O son of the lair, o father of cubs

34. The foundations of youth are in your hands, and it
Is the rope of hope, and the knot of aspirations

35. Be careful in your steps; for you alone are
An example for the youth in words and deeds

36. The teacher does not succeed in his lesson
Unless he is the best example for the youth

37. If God had granted perfection to others
We would say to him: Hold on to all perfection

38. What others do wrongfully is in no way
Lawful for you to do

39. People overlook your own faults; rather
They weigh your own sins precisely

40. I swear they have not wronged you; rather
They have placed you in a position of utmost honor

41. Do not complain of the hardships of life, for
The complaint of the honorable is the beginning of disgrace

42. The free man is he who carries life on his shoulder
Like a mountain, not complaining of burdens

43. O finest soldiers, how they adorned
The chest of struggle with a crescent and star

44. Why don’t you accept the advice of an experienced comrade
Who did not neglect his duty, and is not idle?

45. If the struggle made him tired, his spirit
And feeling are with you in every arena

46. Raise the youth on virtue; it is
The adornment of one adorned, the state of a state

47. Religion is no adversary of civilization; rather they
Are two close companions, nay two bodies in one garb

48. Tell them: Prayer is exercise
And protection from tribulation and misguidance

49. Tell them: The Hanafi school alone
Was the treasure of early conquerors

50. “God is the Greatest” is an atomic explosion
By which shepherds conquered the existence

51. No nation accomplished its goals unless
Its doctrine was firmly rooted like mountains

52. And if the people are corrupted in their faith
Mourn them in wailing and crying

53. And if the ties of its morals dissolved
You will find in it no way to scheme

54. The star of a nation has never been circled by decadence
Except that it signaled its demise

55. Solve for us all the problems of youth
For they have long defied the capable

56. Dive into the depths of youth, and penetrate
From every tightly locked door

57. And when you know where its sickness lies
Eradicate it, no matter the eradication

58. You, when the doctors have been puzzled by its chronic illnesses
From every stubborn disease of the souls

59. Do not despair of curing the diseased, even if
The treatment has been long for him, no matter how long

60. Reaching the sky was once the greatest myth
Yet today it is not impossible

61. And make the children feel intimate in your circles
With innocence like the innocence of children

62. With the tenderness of a mother, and the gentleness of a father
And the love of uncles and aunts

63. And the most deserving of guiding the little ones is the adept
Whose skills were honed by lessons, no matter the honing

64. O you who stand for peacemaking, lead the ranks
With Hannibal’s determination

65. The nest is infested; so sheathe your pens
And gird yourselves with swords and blades

66. The problem is: the atmosphere of peace does not
Clear except through battles and fighting

67. Knowledge is the banner of peace, but they
Corrupted it through its misuse

68. You, by my life, ignite revolutions in the heart of the nation
And build independence

69. And the dearest of what the nation possessed of revolutions
And the fighters against anarchy and exploitation

70. And the breakers of shackles from the nation’s feet
After they had swollen from shackles

71. And the unifiers of Arab unity, which from
Prolonged disunity has torn limbs

72. And the descending into the fields of turmoil
Like lions when Egypt says, “Fight!”

73. And those who cheapen their souls in its love
And for Egypt everything precious is cheap

74. And those who write for it the pages of its glory
On the day of the epic with pouring blood

75. And by your hands Egypt will be victorious
And its vanished glories will return

76. And it will taste what the vicious Tatars tasted
They in viciousness are the epitome

77. And God will fulfill hope; so we will not see
In Jerusalem for Zion a specter

78. And God does not forget those who are humble before Him! And how
Much God delays but does not neglect!

79. Anwar carried the trust, and Anwar has
Two shoulders bearing the burdens

80. Egypt, nay all of Arabdom, knew him
As one who plunges into terrors, and a fighter

81. Good fortune and success are with his allies
The alliance of good fortune and success still stands!

82. If one beauty departs from Egypt
In Egypt at times of calamity are a thousand beauties