1. O leaders, rest in peace,
And may mercy and peace be upon your soil.

2. No wonder tears flowed after you
In the two easts, and flags were lowered.

3. Egypt, for which you died,
Became as if joy in it is forbidden.

4. Alas! Mostafa and his comrades are gone.
Scarcely a year passed without a martyr.

5. The martyrs - the last was not less than the first,
And for all a position amongst the eternal.

6. O God! Egypt is distraught and its heart
Recites the arrows of separation.

7. Perhaps for Abdel Aziz death
Would have been easier than the difficulties you endured.

8. You were resolute, not caring for perdition,
Determined, neither weak nor resigned.

9. I hesitated while hesitation in what you feared
Is lawful, and the evil of both is hesitation.

10. A life spent in unceasing jihad,
Which neither distracts you nor are you distracted from it by rubble.

11. It is a scripture whose verses are the revelation of sacrifice,
Righteousness being its opening and end.

12. Its days are woven with the best
That daytime reveals and nighttime conceals.

13. Awake, that heart and that dream
Out of love for Egypt and desire for its advancement.

14. You barely stayed peacefully secluded
Without tribulations crowding around you.

15. And praise was on your side whether you stayed in a country or a dwelling was not spacious enough for you.
That love for Egypt - none ever blamed you for it,

16. Nor did anyone reach the extent of your love.
How many valleys did the pilgrim descend in them

17. Ill and was cured by Allah’s care for the hopeless.
You are called and you become active as if

18. The ailment gives you the power of endurance.
In the like of this while souls are great,

19. Spirits and bodies differ.
Glory is pleased with you and the country that

20. Complained of illness while in you was its remedy.
O emigrant of pens, almost

21. The souls flowed after you with pens.
The crescent grieved for its glorious pillar

22. And Islam bitterly cried for its protector.
Who will support the religion like his support,

23. His opinion effective while axes are blunt.
With a heart receiving inspiration from his Lord

24. When the paths of guidance seem ambiguous.
He hurls his thoughts to the farthest extent

25. And moves forward, not constrained by fantasies.
Sound opinion is supported by wisdom

26. That is not marred by confusion or ambiguity.
Seeking nothing but rectitude though some of it

27. Is not equal in his understanding to dreams.
Religion does not refuse civilization if it calls him,

28. And the rightly-guided leader responds.
Time is spacious with its ease so for our time

29. Are its rulings and for others are its rulings.
After raising its status, who is the sincere, brilliant scholar

30. The educator from whom knowledge flows unchecked to those who yearn and not barred from the obstinate.
For the spread of knowledge, its share is granted from him

31. To the zealous and not prevented from the arrogant.
You spend all that you are endowed with

32. Of ambitions while your bodies are frail.
And you see the strength of society in its morals,

33. Can societies stand without them?
If there is no knowledge, you will find

34. Nations being led like cattle.
What can be expected to become of them

35. When they have no true comprehension of their affair?
Who can provide the equality

36. That has been obscured in the villages and the misguided lost its path?
Its freshness is gone from it and dwellings have strengthened

37. In which sanctities were guarded and generous people esteemed.
By your care, bereft women regained their strength

38. And orphans penetrated in their destitution.
You joined estranged kinship ties, never

39. Disregarding a bond that kinsmen abandoned.
Take the gems and cast off their husks,

40. Not everything above the cinders is cinders.
Was there a more virtuous young man than you

41. A free man, determined, resolute?
If those traits and character are magnified

42. Then for what else is magnification?
For God you and your comrades are the noble pioneers

43. Who sought the most glorious and attained what they sought.
Of everyone who pleased the truth and loftiness

44. When the darkness of night rested, the clamor subsided.
Which of your circles of good that slept

45. And its resolves were fulfilled and the outline completed?
Today your hopes grow its plant

46. And today the affliction reaps its good.
After what hardship is one to give good tidings

47. That its fruits have been heralded by the buds?
Egypt will return to the days of its glory

48. And good years will replace its foulness.
You established opinion, fulfilled in success

49. What even sharp arrows cannot attain.
The intensity you faced defending the sanctuary

50. How many intensities have the days befallen?
When you find deficiency in one's determination

51. Then perfection cannot be hoped for there.
Why one who takes life as a means

52. And above life are his aspirations?
Eras pass and Egypt never forgets you

53. And its loyalty is a pact and guarantee.
Alas! It consoles the memory of its Abdel Aziz

54. Or the pyramids change.
Egypt which they thought quiet like a sanctuary

55. But is there stillness with the glowing embers?
Not every late riser is awake nor

56. Are the early sleepers slumbering.
Concerns can preoccupy a people

57. For a year, while its conscience is ever awake.
Egypt’s youth, its strength and support are its youth,

58. They are the shield, might, and determination.
Live! And may Egypt thrive through you,

59. Achieving in glory what peoples have not achieved.
And a ransom for it is the hero who for its sake

60. You honored - and his right is to be honored.
And to you O Abdel Aziz a farewell

61. From one bidding farewell while tears are stifling.
The days I will not forget, and situations where you

62. Were in those days a sun and we planets revolving.
You stripped yourself for virtues and loftiness

63. Until you met death while it was inevitable.
You refused blame in life or in death

64. Even from those who blamed you.
You remained in the shadows of eternity - may

65. Your smiling face rise for us amongst the constants.