1. O crown of the country, greetings and peace
Egypt welcomed you back, and dreams came true

2. Knowledge and noble rule, both
Are for you, O heart, majesty and position

3. It is as if you are Al-Ma'mun in his rule
Under your shadow, the flags and the pens

4. The West granted you titles in knowledge
To what the flags aspire to

5. From every kingdom and every group
Appreciation and glorification run to you

6. What are these brilliant halls like the morning
Towering as if they are flags

7. With every elevated pillar illuminated
Like the dawn, darkness bursts from it

8. The great illiteracy shatters upon
Its squares, and delusions tear apart

9. This Fatimid structure is a beacon
And foundations for a civilization and pillars

10. A cradle prepared for the newborn and a nest
In which nightingales and doves will sing

11. Its balconies are the light of the way, and its corner
For genius, a dwelling and position

12. And playgrounds where luck runs with youth
In their shade, fates are granted

13. The young men walk in them, this one has
A soul that makes him swarthy, and that one determination

14. He threw his stick and leaned on its corner
A soul of noble game, generous heroes

15. From the family of Ishmael, neither maternal aunts
Fell short of generosity, nor paternal uncles

16. Their enthusiasm and kindness were not given
By any builder in the valley of kings, they are protectors

17. And Fuad built its two walls helping him
A people striving for the highest goals, not sleeping

18. Look, O Abu Al-Farouq, has your plant approached
Fruition and its flags become visible?

19. And has the valley bent over, with harvest in its mouth
And Iraq coming to share, and Damascus too?

20. In every capital and every city
Egypt’s youth rushed to the water springs

21. How much we borrow from others and struggle
Alas! Loans have no permanence

22. Today they graze in their lands, a generation
Rising to the call to travel

23. Love you planted with your hands, and the clouds
Have not ceased watering it with both your hands

24. Until it bore fruit on the pedestals of its market
Fruit so heavy the sleeves bend under its weight

25. Its near is a feast for the present people
And its far is food for the people of the past

26. A lesson for Farouq and the good of his time
In what patience and determination collect

27. And a model emulated without cease
By successors in their life journeys

28. You built a lofty palace for treasures
Where beauty and inspiration reside

29. Shelves are the eyes of books in it, types
And great epics in it, volumes

30. Alexandria, your treasure returned safe
As if voracity did not consume it

31. Its fingers healed it from the flames of fire
Coolness to what they touched, and peace

32. And its old wound found comfort and healing
The wound of time is healed by its knowledge

33. It bestows the precious from the pottery, and sometimes
Revives the glory of old, though it is ruins

34. Have you seen the pillar of knowledge, how it rises?
Have you seen independence, how it is wanted?

35. Knowledge in the paths of civilization and ascent
Is the leader of every group, and the rein

36. Builder of kingdoms, when a builder is sought
And refuge of homelands, when relied upon

37. The fields of knowledge rose in the valley, so has
Rising for brilliance and genius occurred?

38. For they are life, and every cycle of culture
Or education cycle, they are the bodies

39. What is knowledge if not made by them
Reality for the students? And words are not speech

40. O festival of knowledge, around you there is joy
And upon you crowds of Egypt's hopes

41. How similar to the Nile valley seasons you are
And its holidays throughout time, momentous days

42. Except a day in the cheer of its morning
The builders sat, and the pyramids stood tall

43. And Khufu paraded in the processions of his glory
The hills shook, and the peaks

44. My day with a civilization crown, glistening
Foreheads bow to its glory and inspiration

45. A crown that moved honored through the ages
And states were composed around it, strong bodies

46. When you took it up, guidance walked in it
And the guides of the constitution and Islam

47. Your processions preceded spring and its beauty
The Nile is blossoming, and the banks are adorned

48. Lively Giza shook its shoulder
Favors poured upon it, and gifts

49. It wore its decorations, touched its perfume
And melodies circulated in its valleys

50. You added to it a pyramid, whose loss
Attracts the world to it, binding it

51. Tomorrow, centuries will stand on its steps
Dictating praise, and writing the days

52. Years of effort in youth, and after them
Years of good effort in mature age

53. The building reached under your hands its perfection
And for all you build, your hands are completeness