1. Yesterday has passed, today ushers in tomorrow
Alexandria, it is time for you to be reborn

2. O pearl of the valley, barrier at its gate
Return to your place in the wilderness, echoing

3. Pour forth again knowledge and sciences
And arts with eternal beauty adorned

4. Name valor by epics distinguished
Name youth by passions immortalized

5. Put aside tales of moral corruption and lust
For actors from generations to emulate

6. Let not love of the past and its memory
Breed only regrets and worthless laments

7. The olden is a treasure of wholesomeness
That builds up the negligent or guides emulators

8. Be not seduced by an imported civilization
Whose walls were not built by native hands

9. Were its sails and steamers to depart
Only hunting and hunted would remain

10. It was found yet its land and sky
Were for others, as though it never existed

11. Pursuing the guest and predecessors to wealth
To pilgrimage, glory and high office

12. And build as institutions are built and embark
For your youth the sweet water of knowledge

13. I fear for you an encroaching darkness
Like wings of hovering vultures spread

14. Storehouse of the valley, greetings to you
And the stream and all who linger by it

15. You are but one of Joseph's storehouses
Signifying unmeant to the unpercipient

16. Entrusted with the nation's wealth
Long starved of an able trustee

17. And attained through its faith and hopes
What the prayer niche means to the devout

18. Had the veils of majesty billowed
You would wear nothing but the time-honored

19. We esteem in you banners under which throngs
Go and come and wander freely

20. And if you taste the honeycomb
Bear witness to its leader and volunteers

21. Give not all thanks to the beloved
But mix with it the worker's weary gratitude

22. Alexandria you were honored by a band
Of white turbans, loincloths and hands

23. Who served the precious homeland and were blessed
Blessed are those who serve in the protected sanctum

24. Why has that hut become a towering mansion
Rising above the walls of a palace?

25. From fragments of a house or lean-to roof
Steadfastness built up a structure like a watchtower

26. When you look upon the grandeur of its pillar
Say "This is one of Muhammad's miracles"