1. Welcome to her defender and savior,
And greetings and peace to her protector.

2. And with dignity, O one who went to expose her,
And initiator of good, O one who came to shame her.

3. And promise her when her cannons are of no avail,
To protect the leader, nor are her fortresses useful.

4. And return to it - by God open its gates -
On the day of return, and by God conquer it.

5. And descend on the auspicious plane in its field,
And sit on its hill and coo in its valleys.

6. And lay for it the egg of victory which will hatch,
Since the chicken is sterile in its environs.

7. And oppress Al-Bukhari's Sahih every so often,
And sleep away from war, and read during its nights.

8. And bring the people out of Egypt with a miracle,
Exceeding the Fashoda in it and forgetting it.

9. From wonders, they became those who loved her,
As you claimed, yet were among her enemies.

10. As if past wars and battles,
Were but friendliness' reproach which does not destroy its purity.

11. Put on your green turban with honor,
So every ignoramus of its people recognizes you.

12. And falsely recount your laughable vision,
Falsely mourning the prophets with its weeping.

13. For you do not lack a blind one from its dignitaries,
Nor a mute one from its nobility.

14. Nor tomorrow one from its riffraff,
Who announces good tidings to the nation and guides it.

15. Nor do you lack among the generous one so foolish,
Who counts the debts which it complains of and settles them.

16. Say to King Edward you have become needless,
Of India, Ireland and what is in it.

17. And to obtain a hand that made hands shrink.
So pass through England, wreaking havoc on its armies,

18. And with the fleets thunder in its harbors.
And pass through London, appearing with its adornments,

19. And shining brightly in its squares.
So where is Roberts compared to him when he attacks her

20. And where is Seymour compared to him when he confronts her?
This one whom the Franks know his might,

21. And the land knows it and the sea is aware of it.
And ask him by God if you shake his hand,

22. What his soul desires, what his aspirations are.
And where are his faiths which he extolled,

23. That none should rule it but its inhabitants?
And where does he die honoured, not accepting less than it,

24. And not live disgraced enjoying its pleasures?
And tell him in the Nile's tongue that pains him,

25. If the soul is small, nothing can harm it.
Those bones without a grave or shroud,

26. If not for you, would not have rotted away in its ruins.
So bestow peace upon it when it mourns them,

27. And hope for forgiveness from it when it weeps for them.
And speak to it once in a lifetime,

28. If it were easy for it to speak to you.
Death has brought it no honor,

29. Nor have you sought glory in the homelands by supporting it.
It has not seen for you a sword to illuminate it,

30. On the day of battle, nor a face to enliven it.
It spent the night seeing death overtaking it,

31. And spent the night looking at Egypt coming to it.
So it woke up like sheep which wolves preyed upon,

32. And its shepherd slept the next morning.
O son of Hussein, Hussein died of thirst,

33. While you revel in the soul quenching it.
That fatherhood - how strange are its features -

34. To the knowledgeable, nor how strange are its meanings!
You are too young to be granted its glories,

35. And too foolish to be clothed in its sublimities.
God did not support His companion with dreams,

36. But with every helper who would ignite it.
And the battlefields overwhelm it with affliction,

37. And the pool prevents it and the horses protect it.
The Messenger's fatherhood still wears it,

38. The free white-haired elder adorning it with youth.
Until his daughter disputed it in Egypt,

39. With a claim, and until its alleys refuted her.
So it became a target for the cowardly of the people,

40. And an adornment which the ignorant of the people display.
Why did you not precede the next day of the hill announcing her death,

41. Happily meeting it?
Why were you not shrouded at Al Hejaz with its banner,

42. When its supreme heights betrayed it?
Their group in war continues to unfold it,

43. Until the perishing of the group folded it.
Why did you not refuse to forgive those who pardoned,

44. So it can be said he refused lofty nobility?
You claimed you were more deserving than those who honored it,

45. Of it, and kinder to it than its loyalists.
You would be elated when its praises were recited,

46. So where are your tears when its tragedies are recited?