1. I greet you, O one of sublime station,
With reverence and utmost esteem.

2. Good fortune and favor have returned
On a day superior to all days.

3. A feast that renews for the country and its people
Its joys with the renewal of years.

4. It has amazed minds with two signs that appeared
In its sparkling serene horizon.

5. The sun in its loftiness is shrouded,
And rain pours as clouds gather.

6. Egypt, whom you have honored and loved
With a sincere love from your soul.

7. And you refused but for its hopes
To be where you busied yourself, the highest hopes.

8. You made its darkness your retinue,
And its masters your banners.

9. They gathered for the mother of benefactors and filled
With sincere veneration and peace.

10. Showing inspiration from their souls a gesture
That was gentle, inspired by the gentle inspiration.

11. O people of this abode, it did not cease to be
Populated, with banners raised.

12. So when you are absent, we are not deprived
Of your pleasing return, O generous ones.

13. I am inspired, O savior of the sanctuary,
To say words my pen flows with.

14. Far apart is what I utter
And its lofty place of inspiration.

15. Who can describe the magnificent deeds you immortalized
That did not suite the immortal glories?

16. The truthful have related about you what they have not
Related about the mothers of glory in Islam.

17. Favors you have bestowed that encompassed the horizons,
In all you have reached of the nations' diversity.

18. In every heart an image of you is revealed
From every heart, the abode of honor.

19. What have I found of praising you
During all my travels and sojourns?

20. I mentioned you while traveling the cities
Borne on the tossing, surging water.

21. It was as if the gentle breezes
Were perfumed breaths spreading fragrance.

22. I mentioned you in sadness and in joy,
From the horizon's rim to the farthest reach.

23. I saw in the flowers' bloom a delicacy
Emerging in their fresh youth.

24. I was thrilled by the birds singing it
And wandered in the river's clarity.

25. I mentioned you in settlements and villages
Between green meadows and sand dunes.

26. The inhabited appeared inhabited by it
In every society and place.

27. Which praises have not breathed into you
Shaking the firmness of dreams?

28. Who was kinder than you to the orphans
And more compassionate to the bereaved?

29. For whom, when places were afflicted with drought,
Was dew more soothing after every barrenness?

30. Who in dispelling every adversity
Is the kaaba of hopes for the blind?

31. And an unseen care, seen only
Through what you provide of favors?

32. This is the greeting of a poet who fulfils with it
What is due this year and every year after.

33. The splendor of its system reveals what qualities of yours
Are revealed in the splendor of the system.

34. You were exonerated, being a mirror
Clear of any clouding or blemish.

35. The world changes, its people wander,
While my pledge endures and my banner is my banner.

36. I have been tested with loyalty, so I do not see
For me praisers like the cohorts of blamers.

37. Can one have two lifetimes to spend between
Breach and fulfillment of pledges?

38. Loyalty is an innate trait, only possessed
By men of wisdom and daring.

39. Live long, do right, and forgive him
Great sins with good deeds.

40. Those achievements you built to last,
And who else builds for other than lasting?