1. The cycles of humankind have shaken the world
One cycle passes to be replaced by others

2. Each cycle's turn is the dance of time
Vexing the world, with the moon wandering about

3. O world, be more patient
Surely the latter half of night is followed by dawn

4. Who can reveal the subject of their gossip?
Do they have a repository or settle down somewhere?

5. If the philosophy of time is ultimately
To reach the good through its first cycle, we have attained tranquility

6. The cycle casts gloom upon us
Then soon topples rocks

7. I may witness a graceful gazelle being hunted
As the cycle crept up on it and the tiger pounced

8. O children of mankind, do you have the resolve
To deflect what destiny's rule decrees?

9. You do not settle for the familiar
All that your dim sight cannot make out

10. If there were a star in Saturn
It would be an aspiration or twinkle for you

11. A lofty whisper? Or mumbling?
Or the soul's wickedness throwing sparks?

12. Humans deviate from their center
Yet do not move from whence they jumped

13. Practice renunciation - how I have objected
And avoided its most perilous path, wherever I tread

14. Then nothing deters him from his desire
Neither the scheme of incompetence, nor the awe of others

15. So when grand events confuse him
His steps toward them become short, and he is content

16. How much we need to learn one lesson well:
That time has its ups and downs

17. How much we need to beware the decree of destiny
Against which caution is of no avail

18. How often time obscures a matter with
What seems to us lighter than a speck of dust

19. The snake crept until it bit
Blatantly, within the boughs of justice, after secrecy

20. We did not expel it, for in our imaginations
It had abandoned that harm

21. Justice only required that it remain
To drink water and thrive on trees

22. O cats of the Nile, what an incident
Has kept the eyelids of religion awake

23. It disturbed Egypt and annoyed others
The scheme of the canal and that conference

24. Oh my people, and what great sorrow
If the Nile continues this way

25. They have narrowed your pastures completely
And competed for exclusivity and wealth

26. They sought far more than their rightful share
The way of those whom justice has made arrogant

27. My national community has no
Considerable rights in politics

28. I wonder what has emboldened them
The coercion of Romans? Or Omar's justice?

29. Or the commandments of the Chosen One regarding them
If we ruled them and treated them with kindness?

30. Or the forgiveness shown them after
Napoleon's army humiliated us and we fled

31. They followed his braying and recoiled
Toward him like cattle and sheep

32. But when God granted us victory
And defeated the enemy, and we triumphed

33. They mixed with us with tormented conscience
And bosoms filled with dormant spite

34. Yet we patronized them and called them neighbors
For harm from a neighbor is perfectly acceptable

35. Such is their way, now clearly revealed
The wretchedness they brought is most vile

36. O Copts, this is our Egypt
You are the building block and we the victorious

37. This Nile is a flooding mother
We all suckle from it and prosper

38. Our flooding mother used to nurture us
A serpent most resembling a desert monitor

39. It suckled as milk, then blood
And we took pride in gain and harvests

40. Yet it is never satisfied by what it swallows
No, nor even by swallowing rocks

41. It reminded us of Moses' staff
As if it gobbled up people's souls

42. Our Nile flows gold in the West
While we continue to grovel in holes

43. If your occupation army aims
To take your independence, that is mad imaginings

44. The army does not want your independence
After casting off its staff and settling down

45. It tied the yoke - does it ever intend
That Egyptians one day believe or disbelieve?

46. It came with crooked goals
So gauge it, then deal with it and break it

47. The abyss, O Copts
It is a feast that will not be disturbed

48. The bishop and the Muslim have become
Overwhelmed by its miraculous inverted palm tree

49. You have suffered a dire blow
On a rugged road fraught with danger

50. So unite and shout “Long live” before
You collapse like a dilapidated wall

51. Egypt has men who know
How to accomplish things or avoid them

52. You cannot equal their achievements
Even if you reached the celestial spheres

53. They climb every thought to its pinnacle
Mastering the skills of initiation and experience

54. The impact of their wisdom is radiant
The planets themselves are nearly dazzled

55. They turned their zeal into a conference
Victory comes from God - what an excellent conference

56. They trampled hopes underfoot
Once they had attained the visions of thought

57. They do not sleep on injustice or
The confusion of mind when calamity strikes

58.
They do not wander confused

59. Clearer of sight than eyes, they seek the truth
O people of monotheism - in Egypt you have certainly

60. Become candles in the battlefronts of time
God's own dye is upon your awakening

61. Surely he who is with God will be victorious
A loyal and truthful environment

62. Unsullied by ostentation or evil
So take your course and persevere

63. Success comes only through steadfastness
Continue your efforts, do not grow weary

64. I foresee the opening of an awaited conquest
Perhaps our strategies fall short

65. Then victory comes in the blink of an eye

66. And when opened for a nation
Whose awakening produced daring souls

67. You are the elite of the nation, and
Over your affairs are the elite of all thinkers

68. Hero of Islam, pillar of the exalted
Man of glory, protector of the capable

69. Resplendent in argument, divinely guided
Resolute, formidable, and determined

70. Owner of glory, garden that has become
The innate monotheistic nature, wrapped in leaves

71. Summit of virtue, stronghold of refuge
His justice makes good what is bad and hidden

72. He stripped zeal of its eyelids
Thus he protected truth and shamed traitors

73. Protected the community, feared by the tyrant
Gentle in manner, firm when provoked

74. O defender of righteous anger, O lion of calamity
Shield the oasis, for danger calls for caution

75. Do not leave Egypt to those who would ravage it
Against what your glory destined

76. You stand over its regions
With the power to command and the true right

77. Rise with God's help, pay no heed
Whether it dances or settles, weeps or wails

78. If poetry could grant victory, I would
Continue composing, unsatisfied with pearls

79. If we owned the sword, we would not return
To the pen, should footing slip

80. The passionate freeman makes his victory apparent
To his fellow nationals, however able

81. So take my poetry as praise since
It eulogized your awakening, by the Quranic verses

82. And may Riad live praiseworthy, and Thabit outlive
This conference of established glory