1. Has the sun of beauty risen in its glories?
Or is it a garden in bloom, drawing near its beauties?

2. Is it a friendly full moon whose lights have appeared,
Manifesting the meanings of its perfections?

3. Or are those the stars of the highest heaven,
Whose lights shone on earth and fill the horizons?

4. Or is it that valiant king of armies who built
A palace in Egypt, raising its grandeur with its builder?

5. And Majdi proclaimed in his ode recording its date:
"A palace protected by the valiant king in its structures."