1. O great among the noble ones
Though you despise me, I must reproach you

2. Your status seemed higher than what they claimed
Yet I saw truth was higher than you and your status

3. They found you infatuated, so they said
You lost dignity and self-respect

4. Some said your cunning has no cover
And that you threw randomly without aiming

5. It was said you went too far into disbelief
Wanting to take revenge on your benefactors

6. You smothered the people with flattery and praise
While they smothered you with massive favors

7. Yesterday, they saw your face among the elite
How today has it become covered in mud?

8. By God, they only knew you were small
In your loyalty and quarrel

9. If you're not qualified for words
Why take stands and speak?

10. You made a speech but were not an orator
You added to our great misfortunes

11. You were accused of occupation and what it brought
Yet your own wound, had you felt it, would bleed

12. It did not benefit who it accused
Nor did it benefit you, this rambling

13. The countries loved you for ages
Such is the price of loyalty and respect

14. You despised a bridle you once held
Playing with rule and the reins

15. Its beauty is your own planting, and the fruits
Are for you, be they praise or blame

16. Why not say to the elite words
Befitting your excellent past?

17. Sowing in them life's experiences
Calling those asleep to awaken

18. You scolded the youth without awareness
That you were seeing yourself in a dream

19. Were it not for a land's love
That makes one deaf to gossip, like passion itself

20. You would have sown despair in people's hearts
As if you were the caller to mourning among them

21. A killing in Egypt alarmed you
So you added arrows to the arrows

22. Did seventy years leave you
Knowledge of right and wrong?

23. Shall I not warn you of a time now gone
That you may remember with tears of regret?

24. Ask the fragrant pharaohs about it
And ask a house filled with light in the darkness

25. Ask those who were around you - were they slaves of glory
Showing you love, or seekers of ruin?

26. They saw an inheritance soon to disappear
So they banded together to divide it

27. They got a listen from a generous ear
And so took from it all they desired

28. They're a party, and all Egypt's a party
While you're deaf to the caller of unity

29. How can a people have God's support
When their elite causes division?

30. When dreams overtake a people
The great ones act like tyrants

31. O those nights, do not return
O time of hypocrisy, without peace

32. I love you, Egypt, from my heart's depths
And this love is rooted in my heart's core

33. History will unite me with you one day
When the noble appear over the vile

34. For your sake I roamed the world miserable
Turning my face from the world before me

35. I see a paradise filled with wolves
So pride makes me shun the crowds

36. Fearless, I gifted you a guardian
More firm against enemies than a sword

37. They will write over meadows' soil about you
And in history - a page of blame

38. At seventy, with the world in tatters
What's left but a good ending to hope for?

39. You who were Egypt's meadow
Are today just tribesmen in people's eyes