1. O most faithful chronicler
Of the Great Arab Revolt

2. You have proven, in commemorating its events
What the integrity of memory requires

3. Revealing its truths, wherever your pen flowed
Dawn shone brightly for us

4. And illuminated every hiddenness
Suspicions about it were dispelled, leaving no secret

5. A people's history flowed
Through an age where they were wronged

6. So they ruled over fate
And sacrificed their homelands

7. At the most precious price, for its sake
So you avenged the fallen by preserving

8. Their glory from fading away
You toured in its most splendid radiance

9. The stars of that era and its flowers
A noble journey, he who reads it

10. Will not waver or cut short the journey
Its events flow before his eyes

11. And he sees the characters, though he only reads
Its etiquette teaches him manners

12. And its news informs him
O you who celebrate its esteemed author

13. Expand your gratitude for his virtues
If you were to ask the honorable elite about him

14. Consider him among their greatest
Knowledge and investigation in which

15. Few have delved and settled
And care in receiving its surge

16. Bearing witness and speaking wisely
Attributes competing

17. In goodness, from which virtues are seen
If Egypt focuses on its affair, and rightly so

18. With its precedence in customs
Then all the lands of Arabism