1. We strode in jihad with bold steps
And made peace without relinquishing arms

2. We were content in the love of the redeemed homeland
With the blood of martyrs and lost wealth

3. And when the white nights asked
We assumed the unequivocal right for them

4. So we destroyed tyranny except for remnants
When it bared its fangs we showed it talons

5. And we stood upright in the sail of truth
Repelling winds from its sides

6. We endure severity and tame another
And strive a legitimate and permissible endeavor

7. Days like the nights' hollows
The star and moon lost to winds

8. We spent them facing war which fears
Remaining in slavery or hopes freedom

9. People sat idle in valleys
Exhausted like resting camels

10. Soldiers of peace whose reward
Is what they endured, not death which relieved

11. You see only the living like the dead
Drained even if blood wasn't shed

12. Prisoners who didn't battle
Nor loosened tongues and palms

13. Wounded by whips, not by battlefields
By what spies machinated and wrought

14. Your dawn was prosperity and fortune
O day of the message! Morning encompassed

15. And your day's memories and proofs
Didn't delude you with vanity's mirage

16. Your state in Egypt's pages
History inaugurates inaugurations

17. Your majesty from the sacrifice feast days shone
And your light from the feast's crescent beamed

18. They are truth and you are filled with truth
And exemplified sacrifice and leniency

19. We sent in you Haroon and Moses
To Pharaoh and the struggle began

20. Mightier than Rome's swords
And loftier than its spears

21. From the conquests and what it irrigated
It seems behind its temple lies a conqueror

22. The messengers were repelled and said they failed
What a disappointment became success!

23. It stirred a valley from its ravines
United a faction and healed wounds

24. And strengthened from ailing tribes' powers
Their resolves which it rectified

25. As if Bilal was called: "Rise and call to prayer!"
Clearing Mecca's mountain passes and flats

26. As if people were of a new religion
Its precepts they hastened to uphold

27. Their lives became trivial to them
And they were stingy towards life

28. You would hear singing in their bereavements
And wailing in their feasts

29. We sent trustworthy disciples
When eloquence abandoned them, they were articulate

30. They were truth embodied, alive
Defying the sword, impudent and brazen

31. We disavow their innocence like Badr's people
No sin you count nor blemish

32. We see their discord as reprimand
And think their zeal in it is jest

33. We made eternity their abode and added
To eternity, praise and eulogy

34. A pledge by which we strive
Morning with regret or evening with composure

35. And she perfumes pilgrims' noses with Rukn
And beneath their brows a vast expanse

36. With the constitution our life
We see in it safety and success

37. We took it with plundering souls
Not as spoils seized

38. With it we built from tears a porch
And from blood of every being with wings

39. Nor did youth fill it like Saad's spirit
Nor made life for them ambition

40. Ask it, did it protect the cause?
Was the cause's sanctuary violated?

41. Did it organize the elders' hunting in rows
And unite their experiences into a quiver?

42. The old young man, if the stars rested
From toil, he wouldn't rest

43. Not one who tastes sleep deeply
If slumber circled, nor was drowsy

44. Woe to you! The nights' vigil
And he struggled for his goal shining

45. Before days smashed your tusks
Or life frowned upon you in morning