1. My friend, tell me, what are these lights?
Are they suns, or are they moons?

2. Or treasures filled with pearls?
Or mysteries in which secrets are concealed?

3. Or is it the morning breeze walking enchanted
Leaving behind it the spreading dawn?

4. O people of Eidarous, you were excellent carpenters
How wonderful you and that carpenter were!

5. You are a people whose guest is not wronged
By a ruler, and who does not oppress a neighbor

6. You are a people whose grandfather was the noblest of messengers
And you, after him, are the best people

7. O people of Eidarous, O family of Taha
Your virtue has no limit to be described

8. God has honored Egypt today through you
With a noble one whose banner is perfection

9. He is Abdel Rahman, the pole of nobility
For the regions have shone through him

10. One day I said to his eulogists: be conscious
His merit cannot be fully told in poetry