1. Today this feast has arrived, a time of joy
In the shade of Abbas, whom people delight in

2. And the feast arrived happily with its rising
As many races hastened to its honoring

3. A feast proud over all other feasts
For its dawn was a torch of victory

4. A feast congratulated by Egypt’s Khedive
And the day of its honor is the measure of joy

5. And the joy of companionship has chronicled
For the feast the might of Egypt’s Khedive Abbas