1. أَمّا يَنهى دُعاةَ السوءِ عَنّا

    طَويلُ هَوادَةٍ وَجَميلُ رِفقِ

    Will the advocates of evil not be held back from us

    by long forbearance and gracious gentleness?

  2. رُوَيداً مَعشَرَ العادينَ إِنّا

    نَطَقنا بِالنَصيحَةِ خَيرَ نُطقِ

    Hold back, you aggressors: we

    have voiced counsel in the finest speech.

  3. وَنَعلَمُ أَن شَعبَ النيلِ طُرّاً

    عَلَينا بِالرَجاءِ الحَقِّ يُلقى

    And we know that the people of the Nile, one and all,

    place their true hopes in us.

  4. لِمِصرَ قُلوبُنا وَلَها هَوانا

    عَلى الحالَينِ مَحضاً غَيرَ مَذقِ

    Our hearts belong to Egypt, and our love is hers,

    in both states, pure and unalloyed.

  5. لَها ما تَأخُذُ الدُنيا وَتُعطي

    وَما تُغني حَوادِثُها وَتُبقي

    Hers is all that the world takes and gives,

    and all that its events enrich and preserve.

  6. أَنَحنُ الجاهِلونَ كَما زَعَمتُم

    مَعاذَ اللَهُ مِن جَهلٍ وَحُمقِ

    Are we the ignorant, as you have claimed?

    God preserve us from ignorance and folly!

  7. أَنَحنُ الخائِنونَ كَما اِدَّعَيتُم

    بِأَيَّةِ شيمَةٍ وَبِأَيِّ خُلقِ

    Are we the traitors, as you have alleged?

    By what trait, and by what character?

  8. زَعَمتُم أَنَّنا طُلّابُ مالٍ

    كَذَبتُم إِنَّنا طُلّابُ حَقِّ

    You claimed that we were seekers of wealth;

    you lied: we are seekers of justice.

  9. وَما مَلَكَت يَدي في الدَهرِ إِلّا

    يَراعَ أَمانَةٍ وَلِسانَ صِدقِ

    And my hand has never possessed anything but

    a reed pen of integrity and a tongue of truth.

  10. ثَراءُ ذَوي النُهى أَوفى ثَراءً

    وَرِزقُ الصالِحاتِ أَجَلُّ رِزقِ

    The wealth of the wise is the fullest wealth,

    and the bounty of good deeds is the noblest bounty.

  11. تَوَقَّينا الشَماتَةَ مِن أُناسٍ

    ذَوي ضَغنٍ فَما نَفَعَ التَوَقّي

    We guarded against the gloating of people

    full of rancor, but caution did no good.

  12. خُذوها كَالصَواعِقِ أَنذَرتكُم

    بِرَعدٍ مِن زَواجِرِها وَبَرقِ

    Take it like thunderbolts: it has warned you

    with thunder from its rebukes, and lightning.

  13. تُدَمِّرُ ما بَنيتُم مِن صُروحٍ

    تَطيرُ لِهَولِها مِن كُلِّ شقِّ

    It destroys the edifices you have built,

    which fly apart before its terror on every side.

  14. صُروحُ مُضَلَّلينَ تَعاوَرَتكُم

    بُناةُ السوءِ خَلقاً بَعدَ خَلقِ

    Edifices of deluded men—you have been handled in turn

    by builders of evil, generation after generation.

  15. أَبادَت كُلَّ مَعرِفَةٍ وَفَنٍّ

    وَأَفنَت كُلَّ مَقدِرَةٍ وَحِذقِ

    They obliterated all knowledge and art,

    and annihilated all ability and skill.

  16. هَوَت شُرُفاتُها العُليا وَشاهَت

    وُجوهُ القَومِ من سودٍ وَزُرقِ

    Their highest battlements fell, and disfigured were

    the people's faces, black-skinned and blue-eyed alike.

  17. أَسوءُ سَريرَةٍ وَخَبالُ قَلبٍ

    وَلُؤمُ غَريزَةٍ وَفَسادُ عِرقِ

    Is it evil intent and derangement of the heart,

    and baseness of nature and corruption of lineage?

  18. نَعوذُ بِرَبِّنا مِن كُلِّ سوءٍ

    وَنَبرَأُ مِن مَعَرَّةِ كُلِّ رِقِّ

    We seek refuge in our Lord from every evil,

    and dissociate ourselves from the disgrace of all bondage.