1. The light of hope has dawned and the luck of fate
Has smiled on the people in the face of the cultivating prince

2. Live long, O Heir Apparent, and shine forth gloriously
With the virtues you possess, high as the glittering horizon

3. In feeling and meaning you have attained all hopes
Your qualities are perfect, a necklace of wonders

4. The superiority of your father in paving the way for you
To surmount all difficulties on the ladder of ascent

5. It is no condescension for the prince to care for the poor
Industry is no disgrace and tireless toil no shame

6. Agriculture and the farmer flow together
In word and meaning from one comprehensive source

7. Serving the land that is our mother
Ruler and ruled are drawn heart to heart

8. How you have revived the hopes you were entrusted with
For your loyal and tranquil nation

9. Hail to the tiller of the earth, bending over the soil
To the toiler, patient and content with his lot

10. One who does not study their condition and know their plight
Will never find the cure that will avail

11. Thanks be to the Lord for your noble birth
And for your wise governance and refined means

12. No father has reared a son for the world
With manly virtues in his blooming youth

13. Awake, evoking the latent gifts within you
With enlightened discernment and ample knowledge

14. To comprehend each significant matter, trivial or momentous
And rule it rightly, harmful or beneficial

15. You are a king by whom I measure kings, and I see
The state of decline or rise in each clearly

16. You have treated them with purity and freshness
And perfect composure, meeting their gaze

17. I cannot forget the day I saw you and saw them
At a spectacle of resplendent glory

18. I saw in you such majestic splendor
The finest example of shining beauty

19. A natural loftiness you do not diminish by humility
Though modesty graces the humble

20. You are the source from which sources derive
The fountainhead, and yours are the overflowing springs

21. Nothing escapes your keen intellect
Or hides from that piercing brilliance

22. When you decree a thing, it is executed
None can stop your decree or thwart its course

23. You gazed on barren sands and they turned verdant
Adorned with orchards and farmlands

24. You gazed on cities and villages and they were beautified
Developing schools, factories, and public works

25. You gazed on education to enrich minds
And wholesome fruits flourished in that garden

26. You gazed on sports to strengthen bodies
Preparing a vibrant new generation of grit and drive

27. You gazed on sciences, and everywhere like birds
You see flocks surrounding their enterprises

28. You gazed on arts, and all the excellence of old
Was wonderfully renewed by your patronage

29. Look across the length and breadth of the land
Bearing witness to triumphs and benefits

30. The news from there is endless
Except to herald ever more great tidings

31. Egypt is no longer Egypt, and the countryside
Now rivals what the oldest eyes remember

32. Urban growth flows on, not favoring
Some locations over others in its course

33. And remote regions attain a share of its bounty
That no vast kingdom had attained before

34. To sustain a heart ruling and guiding
The sovereignty of the age, by God's decree

35. And to prosper the days of the heir to his reign
Flourishing in his shadow, season after season