1. Not every limb is like your limb, O Hasan
A limb of knowledge and nation

2. We were confident you would return safely
Elevated in knowledge of every art

3. So you spread ideas and guided a nation
None cared for you more, none kinder

4. But you returned not safe, rather the coffin embraced you
Shrouded in your burial shroud

5. The steamship carried you with dignity
For the serenity of the coffin since it was a dwelling

6. This was not the expected, that I say
And you do not respond, mute in speech

7. It was never in mind your return thus
Forever, nor the prolonged separation, but it is thought

8. Where is the knowledge and where are those morals
Where is the soft character and good manners

9. By God, in which lands did you leave them
Undescribed, grieving in sorrow

10. Rise, O martyr of knowledge, speak to a group
Who died for your death in homelands and dwellings

11. When you were stabbed - and you were not stabbed weakly -
We said, the zealous ones to high values have been stabbed

12. We recount the story of your virtues in succession
And we chant your generous deeds again and again

13. You were the hoped for to serve a nation
That aspires for its reform and repairs what is weak

14. Hopes in you were strong, but fate fought them
And showed what it hid

15. The children of Egypt - their livers crumbled
In grief, patience is little, and melancholy grew

16. The malice of time upon the countries refined
So it assassinated you - curse your malice O time

17. Alas for you my brother of high values and guidance
Why did you travel to the Highest Abode O Hasan

18. O journey evil in nature and destination
You turned after clarity our backs to the unknown

19. If only your dawn that appeared in its day
Was not the day of gloom, misfortune and tribulation

20. Tawfiq, speak to me, for you are truthful
Of good and just in speech and trustworthy

21. What happened until you left loved ones
Who kept you secretly in heart and openly

22. By God, who attended your deathbed
And gave you water or guided you to faith

23. By God, who was the speaker then
By God, whom did you request and from where

24. For your prevention, homes became places of mourning
And people cried aloud with tears flowing

25. Did Cambridge resemble what afflicted
Egypt, its people, tribulations among them noisy

26. No, by He who softens hearts by his loss
Not Cambridge like Egypt in deprivation

27. O You of everlasting glory and You of
Transcendent favor high as stars inhabiting the heavens

28. We cry for your traits that surpassed
Those in metropolises and rural areas inhabited

29. Who can we console for the deceased while we
Are all family in knowledge and occupations

30. But we console virtue in him and his family
And the generality of the children of knowledge and nation

31. Goodness upon you from the Guardian is mercy
And reward you in the Abode of Highness loftiest dwelling