لك تاج مصر وعرشها ولواؤها

تعنو لأمرك أرضها وسماؤها

Yours are Egypt's crown, her throne, and her banner;

her earth and sky bow to your command.

ينساب باسمك نيلها عذباً كما

يمتد فيها خصبها ورخاؤها

Her Nile flows sweetly in your name, just as

her fertility and prosperity spread throughout her.

سلطان آباء ملكت فزدتَه

في أمة مضمونة أعباؤها

You held your fathers' dominion and increased it

among a nation whose burdens are taken care of.

شرِّق وغرِّب فالبلاد أمينة

دهماؤها منقادة دأماؤها

Go east and west: the land is secure;

the sea of its multitudes is obedient.

وإذا استوت نعماك في أجزائها

فقد استوت في طاعة أجزاؤها

And when your bounty spreads equally through its regions,

its regions are equally obedient.

لولاك ما وفَّى الديار قطينها

حباً ولا ملأ القلوب رجاؤها

But for you, its dwellers would not have paid the land its due

in love, nor would hope for it have filled their hearts.

زرت السلوم وإنَّها لوديعة

وأمانة حق عليك أداؤها

You visited Sallum, and it is indeed an entrusted charge,

a trust you are duty-bound to honor.

ومن المكارم أن تكون هدية

أبوية في قبضتيك بقاؤها

And it is noble that a gift

from a father should remain in your two hands.

أفضى إليك بها الخليفة يتقي

أخطارها ويخافها أعداؤها

The caliph entrusted it to you, guarding against

its perils, while its enemies fear it.

مدت إليك جبالها أعناقها

متلمسات وانطوت بيداؤها

Its mountains stretched their necks toward you,

seeking you, and its desert folded itself away.

وأتت إليك مرحبات تبتغي

شرف الرعاية أسدها وظباؤها

And they came to you in welcome, seeking

the honor of your care—its lions and its gazelles.

وشهدت في بطحاء برقة أمة

مطلولة حول الذمار دماؤها

And on Barqa's open plain you beheld a people

whose blood was shed unavenged in defense of all they hold dear.

أنست بركبك بعدما انقطعت بها

أسبابها وتخلفت أنباؤها

They found comfort in your cavalcade after

their ties were severed and news of them was slow to come.

لباك من أعرابها أبطالها

ودعاك من أتراكها أمراؤها

Its Bedouin heroes answered your call,

and its Turkish emirs called to you.

وقضيت عيدك في جوارهمُ ومن

تلك الصوارم والقنا خطباؤها

You spent your Eid among them, and from

those sharp swords and spears came its orators.

آثرت قفرَهُمُ على منضودة

ثمراتها ممدودة أفياؤها

You preferred their desert to a land with heaped-up

fruits and wide-spreading shade.

جيران مصر لهم وأخوة أهلها

خلف التخوم وفاؤهم ووفاؤها

Egypt's neighbors and her people's brethren have,

beyond the borders, her people's loyalty and hers.

ويد لأم المؤمنين تحوطهم

بيضاؤها وتظلُّهم خضراؤها

And a hand of the Mother of the Faithful shelters them

with its whiteness, and shades them with its greenness.

هبطت إلى الملأ الأباة كريمة

بين الملائك سيرها ولقاؤها

A noble lady, she descended to the unbowed assembly,

her journey and her reception among angels.

لانت صخور القيروان لعيسها

وتأرجت لخيامها حصباؤها

Kairouan's rocks softened for her pale camels,

and its pebbles grew fragrant for her tents.

أغنتهمُ عن ذلك المدد الذي

سد المسالك دونه رقباؤها

She spared them the need for that aid

whose way its watchmen had barred.

فتداركت نفحاتها جرحى الوغى

وتزوَّدت رحماتها شهداؤها

Her bounties then came to the aid of battle's wounded,

and its martyrs took her mercies as provisions.

يا حامي الإسلام وابن حماته

في دولة لا تنتهي خصماؤها

O protector of Islam and son of its protectors,

in a state whose foes know no end!

ولكل قومٍ عندها ثأر وكم

شقيت بثارات لهم غرماؤها

Every people has a blood-feud with it; how often

have its adversaries suffered through those peoples' vendettas!

أنت الأحق بأن تعين حماتها

وتجيرها إن خانها أمناؤها

You are most entitled to aid its defenders

and shelter it if its trustees betray it.

سبقت مروءتك الكبيرة فاقتدى

قرباؤها بك واهتدى بعداؤها

Your great magnanimity led the way, so

those near it followed your example, and those far from it found guidance.

أثنى عليها المسلمون وإنما

عند الإله قبولها وجزاؤها

The Muslims praised it; yet

with God alone lie its acceptance and its reward.

سقيا لأيام لجدك نضرة

يثني عليه صباحها ومساؤها

May rain bless your grandfather's radiant days,

whose mornings and evenings praised him.

وأمور مصر له يدبرها كما

يرجو لمصر ويشتهي أبناؤها

Egypt's affairs were his; he governed them as

her sons hoped and wished for Egypt.

تدعو إمارتها الخلافة حرة

فيجيبها من جندها نصراؤها

The caliphate would call upon her free emirate,

and its champions from her army would answer it.

تسع الضيوف الوافدين فإن هم

قربوا مرافقها فهم أجراؤها

She welcomed incoming guests; and if they

drew near her resources, they were her hirelings.

تغزو وتفتتح الممالك عنوة

بالغالبين وراءهم رحماؤها

She campaigned and conquered kingdoms by force,

with victorious warriors, her merciful ones behind them.

أنت المعيد لها مفاخرها التي

هز العباد بذكرها شعراؤها

You restore to her the glories

whose mention by her poets stirred mankind.