1. Injustice never rose with a human
For injustice and death to a human are the same

2. And it knows no celebration in its majesty
Greater than the celebration of human liberation

3. So how is this celebration that revived a downtrodden nation
Under the afflictions of ignorance and tyranny?

4. It is as if all its glorious past, with which
The nations were obsessed, is the ramblings of a drunk

5. Neither Akhenaten's temples rose
On its ruins, nor the unification of religions

6. Nor was Ahmose attributed to its leap forwards
Nor did its signs become manifest in cognition

7. Nor did civilization spread in it serenely
And the Nile between revival and benevolence

8. Nor did those who sought its affection swarm
Its minbars that surpassed all reckoning

9. The invaders took from its glories, arts
But could not, and every artist gave

10. And they delved and disappeared into its tombs
Like a flood disappearing into the depths of dunes

11. It is as if the Fatimids who originated
Civilization for it were people of illusion

12. It is as if Al-Azhar, bustling with life, had left it
And its inhabitants were sold in slave markets

13. It is as if everything it gave and created
Was void, and the hostile slanderer spoke the truth

14. From the glory of triumphs until it became deficient
And truth was corrupted as if by a sinner

15. Nothing but the injustice of oppression was submitted to
By one who does not submit to idols and statues

16. It is as if all religions together denied
Those who sanctified them, so they were disgraced for prices

17. Kafur, whom we used to hold in high esteem
Became, even if clad in white silk, despised

18. One who enslaved religion to serve his disgraces
And ceaselessly opposed the Bible and Quran

19. One who trampled over all people's necks
As if they were, like him, pseudo-eunuchs

20. A group of the free who knew
Of vengeance between banishment and deprivation were provoked

21. And they tolerated exile despite the misery burdening them
Until they fulfilled their trusts to homelands

22. And they risked death from one who went to crush them
As if they were insects whose death is insignificant

23. And they were martyred in the cause of nobility, having for it
No concern, for it is they who died for this ephemeral world

24. A sacrifice for Egypt in which the Christ was ennobled
As a child and to which he returned in his enduring faith

25. A sacrifice for Egypt which Islam blessed
The beloved of God who never submitted to disbelief

26. A sacrifice for the best of its ideals and a sacrifice
For its leaping, awakening, building generation

27. Until all the free and the army responded to it
And gathered against the face of Satan

28. And he who undermined its throne fell in fear
As if he were made of reeds and timber

29. And the evil of Egypt's outcast departed it
To the sea like a plague among rats

30. Oh, would that Egypt whose blessings he betrayed
And whose sin overwhelmed him without shrouds

31. Would not be content today, on the anniversary of its revolution, with contempt or forgetfulness
For truth is supported by the hand of faith

32. And might is scattered by the hand of fire
July, O month of splendid celebrations

33. Each holiday has an inner holiday for my essence
Who can give me the sight of homelands that my verses

34. Would spread, even if I were in lands like homelands?
To witness the greatest joy and spread it

35. As perfume in my poetry or light in my melodies
And portray today the meaning of its second glory

36. In the grandeur of colors, not the grandeur of my colors
And watch the working peasant possessing

37. His land, not an owned beast of estates
And see the Consultative Council convened

38. In the dignity of the free, not the humiliation of the compelled
And all its members have honored its seats

39. As ideas glittered in minds
They swore to safeguard Egypt from foolishness

40. And take it to a place above constellations
And contribute to diverse civilizations

41. Not to the dregs of illusions and assumptions
And make religion a meaning not colored

42. By the deceit of politics or the poisoning of a serpent
If in my distant exile, my dreaming

43. Inclined to my yearning, then this dream sustains me
Or if in my distant exile, forgotten, my spirit

44. Has not ceased fluttering in the echoes of my affection
Children of Egypt whose virtues transcend

45. The horizons in the estimation of time
Like jewels, age increased their value

46. Or like stars, with a new life their lights shine
Today is the beginning of an era entirely of resolve

47. Like fires that blazed amidst darkness
There is no more excuse for despair that may seize you

48. For you are the people of this affectionate homeland
You are the army and you are Egypt, not a tyrannous king

49. Or criminal aides imposing upon you
And your station is among immortal deeds

50. And the sacrifices of heroes and brave men
My message before was to provoke you

51. As embers are provoked in a volcano
And today my poetry sings your praises

52. As the blossoms' fragrance sings in my garden