1. Good fortune strives amid processions
To grant you wishes, rider and walker alike.

2. And daily it comes to you in rank
That its ensigns in the chest are stars' lights.

3. So you are fate's pride in best government
With its success in Egypt's flags victorious.

4. And you it is who gives schools their glow,
Lighting like a sun in the sky of offices.

5. So stand firm ever for knowledge
Helper against deep-dark ignorance.

6. And train each teacher in teaching
To do his duty to science's sons.

7. For you know sciences and their people best,
And what profits nations of every duty.

8. And the Khedive, may his rule in Egypt endure,
Saw you worthy of high office and rank.

9. So those did he grant you as you merit,
For your discretion and benefit to seeker.

10. So from him you have aid in all wherein
Is straightway facilitating each hardship.

11. And from you to him true loyalty and candour
For his state of splendour and talents.

12. And with those qualities entire were you moulded,
Text against foe and comrade alike.

13. And how not, when in them, as you know,
Are all gains, in their meanings entire?

14. And in them God's approval of all command
Free in its traits from all defects.

15. So you remained for knowledge our overseer,
With expert eye, knower of consequences.

16. And you remained in our lands, for our dear one,
Minister, sound in thought, perfect in honours.

17. And eulogies guided to you never ceased,
Among all people, by concord of creeds.

18. Each sincere one embellishing them
With all that pleased, spreading them east and west,

19. That you might meet them with sheer affability
When they came in battalions from the soul.

20. And grant them acceptance, for it is
The fresh-sweet well, the place of drinking.

21. And that is much for an Amir whose bounty
Made the state of knowledge supreme among foreigners.

22. And Majdi recited it chronicling
‘Ali graced with ranks from guardian.’