1. Egypt met you with her smiling face,
And was illuminated by your distinguished light.

2. Your healing call flowed to her wounds,
Being the gentlest balm.

3. You did not ask her for adornment, so she adorned herself
With her sincerity in her concealed love.

4. And Allah knows the bitterness of resentment,
The evil of ostentation and the bitterness of coercion.

5. The venerable procession is for Allah, and around it
A people, if they sacrifice for you, will not utter a word.

6. There are troubles surrounding it, yet your destiny is one
In the souls of its Christians and Muslims.

7. Their ideals bow to you, and your status is above them,
A crown to which every Muslim points.

8. Welcome O mother of benefactors, and greetings
To the virtue which shines as the finest example.

9. The garden is not, after the passing clouds,
More beautiful in receiving the sun at dawn,

10. Than your most perfect beauty, from the radiance
Of faces shining to receive the Bestower.

11. You came in the manner of auspicious times, and they are all
Joys that delight the return of the season.

12. You saw in the sincerity of the reception the best
Of what is gifted to that greatest station,

13. And you heard the voice of truth from one chanting,
Who did not chant except with the revelation of honesty.

14. Its beginning and end are equal in his caring
For the flock he led early on.

15. And the age may find transformation to be prudent
And see guarding what was not guarded as necessary.

16. An age that censured its people, but you filled it
With praiseworthy deeds, so it returned free of blame.

17. There is no innovation if praising you is in
The words of the tongue and the ink of the pen.

18. So your call flows freely in expression,
As though it is magic, and you speak in the mouth.

19. What should I list of your achievements which
Are like the stars in their multitude and glory?

20. If their names were collected, they would exhaust
The pearls of the sea and the words of the dictionary.

21. How many a stumbling have you relieved
From where no hand was expected or known?

22. How many losses have your kindnesses replaced
From conquering devastation or a crumbling home?

23. How much have your gifts brought a lonely soul cheer
In his house, leaving him not deprived?

24. How many orphans have you saved by your compassion
From their misery? And how many spinsters?

25. How many glimpses of delight have you pictured
In their flesh and blood of both the old and young?

26. How many endowments have you sent Egypt of crafts
Of which time has left nothing but relics?

27. How many institutes of knowledge in its corners
Have you renewed for their students and teachers?

28. Never will your righteous people forget what
You have granted them of enduring blessings.

29. Their hearts crave you, and their slightest pleasure in you
Is counted their greatest prize.

30. As long as you are well, Egypt and its people
Are in bounty. So last long and be safe!