1. Five decades have passed as the veils concealed you,
Yet your tomb remains a shrine and a minaret.

2. In every dawn and every slope,
Memories crowd around turbulent thoughts.

3. Immortal is your glory in the face of adversities and tyranny,
A glory dwarfed by no other glory.

4. Time passes as your glory remains intact,
Foes and allies equally revere you.

5. You are a banner above the world,
To which fates aspire and before which they bow.

6. Persons are belittled next to you,
Dwarfs and titans equal in your shade.

7. What can the universe forget of Saad?
And which great feat does not remember him?

8. Where but among the greatest was his abode,
When all eyes looked up to him?

9. Troubles raged around him bending,
Like violent winds around a solid mountain.

10. When the awful terror subsided,
And its billows calmed, and perils receded,

11. Beneath the terror a smile serene was seen,
Pleased and content as though it was fate.

12. A soul lofty above life and its people,
Its caprices, secrets and coverings.

13. The soul of heroism which is a charm,
Bewitching and perplexing like sorcery.

14. Do you recall the masses when stirred by Saad?
What did you see? A volcano? A roaring wave?

15. Or the magic of heroism and the flames of its fervor,
Igniting souls and making them blaze?

16. A memory sanctified by the noble country,
Jealously guarding the glory of its past.

17. Part of the nation's history, not just
The story of one man concluded and folded.

18. A memory robed in majesty,
Before which enmities and sins fade away.

19. A memory lofty like a sacred thing,
Beneath its shade all turn righteous.