1. You called me, though there was nothing wrong with me
Does a duty ever call without me responding?

2. If I fall short today and make excuses
Affection drives me, though fatigue holds me back

3. O band of goodness - you remain as you were
Fulfilling the rights of the most benevolent

4. Today an honorable and steadfast man is honored
For what you have sought for people's benefit

5. The weak are trusts assigned to us
By fate, and he who cares for them will prosper

6. We answer - you have reached a peak none can reach
But the gallant ones, the fine young knights

7. Were you not among Egypt’s finest doctors
Among the elites of non-Arabs and Arabs alike?

8. A homeland must extol a man whose deeds
Are linked to growth, though causes are obscure

9. Genius shines through your fulfilled hopes
And lineage - before the time and ripe

10. You have attained lofty heights of status
Increasing the renown of noble birth

11. However much refinement hides these virtues
The veil of grace and propriety reveals them

12. With refined traits you have complemented
Lineage, from ancestors noble and pure

13. Congratulations for the gift of the great Farouk
And the exalted office and title he granted you

14. Congratulations for the honor from the head of state
And his advisors present and absent

15. Congratulations from elders and ministers - their order
Around the king is that of sun and stars

16. Congratulations for the finest greetings of notables
Who came to you, the elite of the ummah

17. Egypt embodied in them, evoking
What delights a banquet - prose and verse

18. How excellent the reward for those who did their homeland right
With zeal, honesty, and diligence

19. Long may your heights remain blessed
Secured for you by prosperity, safe from harm