1. Saad has died, so what can you say about him
To move a whole crowd?

2. Saad has died, did you cry for Saad
With copious tears flowing?

3. Saad has died, was there any poetry
Whose inspiration brought fine verses?

4. Saad has died, did you see anyone like Saad
In the vast East?

5. Saad has died, did you witness the bereavement
Saad has died, did you hear the wailing?

6. Saad died, he was in Egypt
A flag which his Lord willed to rise high.

7. So Egypt mourned its great leader,
The father of all the nation, Zaghloul,

8. The resolute president, the greatest critic
Of the people in these woeful times,

9. The hero of the great Egyptian renaissance,
The leader of the strong and massive party.

10. It is as if I hear in every Egyptian house
The echo of sorrow and wailing.

11. You had not reached your death, my brother,
When they came to you with swords unsheathed.

12. You walked the straight path for Egypt,
You were, O Saad, the best guide to the bewildered.

13. You were, Saad, a dangerous mountain
From which the lost traveller turns back disappointed.

14. You liberated Egypt, save for a little,
Oh, if only that liberation were complete!

15. You were for the people in life an imam,
So they will not deviate from what you planned.

16. After you unified the parties successfully
Matters inclined towards reform.

17. So you wiped out discord in all of Egypt
As light wipes out darkness.

18. Egypt was shocked by the news, and its land
Almost shook from the enormity of the affliction.

19. It was not Saad's corpse on that bier,
But the hopes of a people walking along.

20. Death prevented you from fulfilling your promise,
Though you were not negligent and strove hard.

21. Tell us, O president, for whom we found none
To fill your place after you died,

22. The people are all your children,
So whom did you leave your children to after death?

23. The people dug for you, my father, altogether,
On the day death came to you, a grave in their hearts.

24. You were building for them, firmly, glory upon glory,
Adding to that your own glory.

25. The days of Egypt were like feasts with you,
Then they changed into sorrows after you.

26. River Nile, you never thought before
That you would lose Saad in your valley.

27. Between Saad and Egypt came true separation,
This separation cannot be borne.

28. So Egypt wept for him, and all of Palestine,
And Syria and Iraq lamented.

29. Loyalty wept for him in its love for Egypt,
Genius and ethics wept for him.

30. Saad was a star whose light from the East
Illuminated horizons with his opinions.

31. After shining he was engulfed by darkness,
So he is no longer a rising nor a shining star.

32. Truly today you are bereaved, O Egypt,
Your quick-witted son died in your bosom.

33. Saad died but the memory of Saad did not die,
He still lives in hearts as a sanctuary.

34. If we are silent about your virtues,
The days will sing your praises.

35. You were in Parliament the best orator,
Whose opinions fed the minds.

36. Death did not change your appearance one bit,
You remain that smiling face.

37. Your love of Egypt tore out your entrails,
With it your tongue continued to overflow,

38. Speaking with proof for the sake of Egypt,
Your proof was decisive and conclusive.

39. The liberation of Egypt was a clear right,
Your faith in it never wavered.

40. You plugged Egypt’s gap with your sincere love,
And your authority spread through its expanse.

41. O love! Words cannot depict you,
Only tears can translate you.

42. You suffered humiliation for its passion,
And from glory in its passion you suffered humiliation,

43. Imprisonment and after that exile,
Your body had not experienced them before.

44. But God in Heaven willed
That your life be one of struggle.

45. Had what you endured been a heavy burden,
But the passion of Egypt addicted your heart.

46. It is misfortune that a leader dies
And that leader sees incapacity.

47. I do not hope, without guidance from a leader,
That the country will one day be leaderless.

48. O great reformer, peace be upon you
The day you met inevitable death.

49. And peace in the days when you were close at hand,
And peace the day you endured estrangement.

50. The president rested after the battle,
After difficult blows and lethal stabs,

51. After taking a stand on the day of contention and withdrawal from the fray and discord.
Love of Egypt coursed in his nerves

52. Like electricity in wires.
His words revolved around it

53. Like the circling of stars in their orbits.
He did not rely on arms to defend

54. Egypt from injustice, but on insight.
No thorny fence protects the beautiful rose from plucking.

55. O Saad, which of your sides was not
With Egypt and others, weeping?

56. Saad did not really die, he still speaks after death,
He still rages about Egypt’s independence as before.

57. With his spirit he helps those in Egypt
Who seek the independence of Egypt.

58. In Egypt today, there are many after Saad,
Each one is Saad in defending Egypt.

59. They all follow Saad's approach,
They all, beyond their abilities, make an effort.

60. Self-rule is indeed Egypt's need,
She has no substitute for it in her life.

61. That is her right which they usurped,
And she will restore it today or tomorrow.

62. O Death, you want counsel from the living,
Alas, how stony is Death’s heart!

63. It keeps dividing, taking shares,
Then plays with picking up those remains.

64. If a cannonball hangs in the air,
It strikes the neighbors with fragments.

65. Nothing is as precious as life,
Despite the troubles that come with it.

66. Those corpses that the dying mount,
How miserable are those beasts!

67. Mankind is just like animals,
And individuals are but cells.

68. A person's life after death
Is the most profound of matters.

69. Life has deceived us, it wears out,
Yet I see death's path clearly.

70. Death spoke the truth, when it comes
There is no respite or delay.

71. I advanced toward death,
Then retreated gradually.

72. I did not follow guided paths in life,
My ways were not uneven.

73. What benefit did I gain in my life
From my errors and my patchwork?

74. Except that life is sweet, and a person in it,
No matter how worries abound, still hopes.

75. This life was nothing but war,
It can disappear behind barriers.

76. I swear by the shining and extinguished stars,
High in the sky!

77. By life's smiles every day,
And death's gloom after life!

78. By the soul's joy, then its sorrow,
The coming together, then the separation!

79. By the hopes of a people with history,
And the bitter despair in catastrophes!

80. By what living people in every generation feel,
And by the loss of feeling in the dead!

81. By the motions of life,
And stillness that overtakes all motions!

82. I truly doubt, I do not know
Why we journey, why we come?