1. You are the refuge for the commanded and commander,
O best master, supporter of the Imam.

2. You are the one whom the book came announcing glad tidings,
Congratulations to you from behind the bearer of good news.

3. And all are in the pages of felicity, they have recited for you,
Your Egypt rejoiced with the beauty of its fate.

4. And you are most deserving, oh Khedive, of the supreme position,
Lofty, difficult to ascend, perilous.

5. It is a position that requires, to strengthen it,
The soundness of opinion in perils, renowned.

6. And you protect it with abundant resolve,
And firmness that leads to the downfall of every rebel.

7. And you fend off, oh Secured, from it whoever transgresses,
With the sword of Al-Mu'tasim and the caution of the vigilant.

8. And you extend your Egypt with fertility from a cloud,
Flowing like a copious sea from your hands.

9. And you remove with care from its outskirts,
Whatever remains of abhorrence and denial.

10. And you destroy its detractor with overwhelming assault,
Difficult in nature, worthy of loyalty.

11. And you support the great kingdom with wisdom,
Brilliance and the light of prosperity.

12. And you pave the earth by raising foundations,
From which the gaze turns not in sorrow.

13. So rise to take the reins with an ambition,
That will erase the traces of every hardship.

14. With your justice disseminated, the sedition will fold,
That kindled in the heart of the agitator.

15. For long the homelands awaited from you,
Their deliverance from the heat of blazing fire.

16. And they implored God in their sincerity,
For the attainment of hopes of the best advisor.

17. Until their prayer was answered and through you the
Kingdom of might attained its greatest throne.

18. And time reconciled them in your proximity happily,
With a glance heralding serenity.

19. And it described their days, so they sang praise to you,
With a eulogy surpassing the praise of Al-Jurayri.

20. And from the seat of the Caliphate delight has come to you,
Its standards rising with the sweetest fragrance.

21. And it came bearing the good news of that which we,
Have been hoping for, of the grace of the Omnipotent.

22. So judge among us with what you approve, and arbitrate,
A ruling by which we increase fold by fold.

23. And may a downpour from your right rain down,
To quench a meadow that had no equal.

24. Where the leadership is in the refined right hand,
Easy in nature, insightful in matters.

25. It is you, oh Tawfiq, most magnificent state,
That established its beauty with a buttress.

26. And erased the verses of tyranny and wrong,
With a script of kindness unmatched by any peer.

27. And planted in the soil of hearts an affection,
Whose branches grow by little effort.

28. By God, you, oh Khedive of Egypt,
Are most deserving of an eternal, great kingdom.

29. So take pride in answering the oppressions among us,
And respond to the plea of the indigent.

30. For how much you have covered us with merciful care,
Our elders and youngsters alike!

31. And how much with Umarite might you have suppressed
Our woes, the scheming and the wicked!

32. And how much injustice you removed from the oppressed,
With the shade of security, a warning to the sinner!

33. So may God always expand your chest,
With the removal of rebellion in the many lands.

34. That the luster they hope from you returns to the homelands,
And you being the best helper, it endures.

35. And the kingdom whose owner you are with them remains
As long as you are pleased, firmly rooted.

36. O liberator of those precious souls,
Of a slave brought low, to the king a captive.

37. Of a composer of odes whose pearls,
Every expert falls short of describing.

38. Who hopes for nothing in reward but their acceptance,
And that is from you no meager thing.

39. I remain lavishing praise in robes of authority,
As long as eulogy is pleasing to minister or vizier.

40. Or as long as a disseminator boasts among all people,
Of your praise in the diwan of every entertainer.

41. Or as long as one recites in an assembly the decree of Egypt,
A loyal one to you in his conscience.

42. Or as long as Al-Majdi says in joy, recording
A rescript of Tawfiq ascending with the Prince.