1. يا كوكباً في كل برج دارا

    أرضيت في هذا الضريح قرارا

    O star that revolved through every zodiacal sign,

    Have you accepted this tomb as your resting place?

  2. ومجاهداً في كل واد ضارباً

    لولا المنية ما لقيت عثارا

    And O struggler, ranging through every valley,

    But for death, you would never have stumbled.

  3. قد كنت تعدو في السماء وفي النهى

    وغدا الثرى لك غاية وقصارى

    You once raced through the heavens and the realms of reason;

    Now dust has become your goal and final limit.

  4. تسعى وحولك عصبة نبَّهتها

    فتبيَّنت مرماك والأوطارا

    You strove, surrounded by a band you had awakened,

    Who came to understand your aim and your desires.

  5. من كل حرٍّ ليس يهدأ روعه

    حتى يطاول مصره الأمصارا

    Each a free man whose heart could find no peace

    Until his Egypt matched other lands in stature.

  6. وحملت عبء القوم وحدك عنهم

    لا شاكياً نصَباً ولا خوارا

    You bore the people's burden for them, all alone,

    Complaining neither of weariness nor weakness.

  7. أرهقتَ نفسك واستراحوا بعد ما

    وكلوا إليك الدار والديارا

    You wore yourself out, while they rested, once

    They had entrusted home and homeland to you.

  8. وبكوا هجوداً فاهتززتَ مواسياً

    ودعوك ليلاً فاستجبت نهارا

    They wept in their sleep; you stirred to comfort them;

    They called you by night, and you answered by day.

  9. عودتهم رفع الرؤوس تطلعاً

    فاستجمعوا الأسماع والأبصارا

    You taught them to raise their heads in aspiration,

    So they marshaled all their hearing and sight.

  10. ومددت أسباب الرجاء طويلة

    وقضيت أيام الحياة قصارى

    You stretched the cords of hope far into the distance,

    Yet spent but a few short days in life.

  11. لم تعرف الدنيا نبياً مرسلاً

    في ذا الشباب ولا رأت أبرارا

    The world had never known a prophet sent

    So young, nor seen such righteous souls.

  12. كانت خلالك مثل وجهك جنةً

    ملء النفوس وكان قلبك نارا

    Your virtues, like your face, were a garden

    Filling souls, while your heart was fire.

  13. ما متَّ محزوناً على عزم نبا

    أو مشهد في مصر عنك توارى

    You did not die grieving over a resolve that faltered,

    Or a scene in Egypt that was hidden from you.

  14. إن الذي أخنى عليك لَفَقْدُ من

    ألقى عليك الحب والأسرارا

    What brought you low was surely the loss of one

    Who had entrusted you with love and secrets.

  15. ما زلت توصي بالوفاء وأهله

    حتى ذهبت شهيده إيثارا

    You never ceased commending loyalty and its people,

    Until, through selfless devotion, you died its martyr.

  16. أربت على تلك الشجاعة رحمة

    لو نالت الجبل الأشم انهارا

    Compassion surpassed even that courage—

    Had it touched the lofty mountain, the mountain would have crumbled.

  17. قد خر أيقاظ لرزئك غشية

    وأفاق قوم غافلون سكارى

    The wakeful fell unconscious at your loss,

    And the heedless and drunken awoke.

  18. لهفي عليك وقد رحلت اليوم لم

    تدرك لغرسك في البلاد ثمارا

    Alas for you! You departed today before

    You could see your planting in the land bear fruit.

  19. يسقيه ماء النيل عذباً بارداً

    واليوم تسقيه الدموع غزارا

    The Nile's water irrigates it, sweet and cool;

    Today abundant tears are watering it.

  20. لهفي وما لاقتك يثرب ضيفها

    وخطيبها المسترسل المكثارا

    Alas! Yathrib never welcomed you as her guest

    And her fluent, prolific orator,

  21. تعظ الحجيج مؤلِّفاً وموفقاً

    وتوحد الآمال والأفكارا

    Exhorting pilgrims, uniting and reconciling them,

    Bringing hopes and thoughts together,

  22. وتطوف بالقبر الكريم منادياً

    فيهز صوتك هاشماً ونزارا

    And circling the noble tomb, calling out,

    So that your voice would stir Hashim and Nizar.

  23. لهفي عليك ولم تسر متفقداً

    في الهند إخواناً لمصر حيارى

    Alas for you! You never journeyed to seek out

    In India, Egypt's bewildered brothers.

  24. لهفي ولم تنقل من اليابان ما

    يهب البلاد حضارة وعمارا

    Alas! You never brought from Japan what

    Would grant the country civilization and prosperity.

  25. قد كنت مزمعَ هجرة لو قدرت

    قربت أعواناً لمصر كبارا

    You had resolved upon a journey which, had it come to pass,

    Would have drawn great allies close to Egypt,

  26. وجمعت بين السابقين وأمة

    مهضومة تتتبع الآثارا

    And joined the forerunners to a nation

    Oppressed, following in their footsteps.

  27. لو كان عمرك بعض ما ترجو وما

    تسعى لمصر استوعب الأعمارا

    Had your lifespan matched even part of what you hoped and what

    You sought for Egypt, it would have encompassed lifetimes.

  28. يا ليتها يفديك من وزرائها

    من لم يضع عن أهلها الأوزارا

    Would that one of her ministers could ransom you—

    One who never lifted the burdens from her people.

  29. ويل الذين تخلفوا عن مشهد

    مشت الملائك حوله إكبارا

    Woe to those who stayed away from a gathering

    Around which angels walked in reverence.

  30. هل يُعرضون ترفعاً وتكبراً

    أم يسكنون تهيباً وحذارا

    Do they turn away in haughtiness and pride,

    Or remain still in awe and caution?

  31. هلا رأوا جزع الأمير وصنعه

    برضاه عما شئته إقرارا

    Did they not see the prince's anguish, and his gesture

    Of affirming, through his approval, what you wished?

  32. في أي يوم غير يومك هائل

    يبكي المسيء لذنبه استغفارا

    On what terrible day other than yours

    Does the wrongdoer weep for his sin, seeking forgiveness?

  33. ما كنت ذا عرش وتاج لامع

    أو فارساً تتقلد البتارا

    You had no throne or gleaming crown,

    Nor were you a knight girded with a cleaving sword.

  34. ما كنت إلا صائحاً في أمة

    تستصرخ الشجعان والأحرارا

    You were only a voice crying out among a people,

    Calling upon the brave and the free for aid.

  35. ما كنت إلا ابناً لكل تقية

    ولكل آنسة أخاً مختارا

    You were only a son to every pious woman,

    And to every maiden a chosen brother.

  36. ترثيك أشياخ وشبان كما

    ترثي عفافك نسوة وعذارى

    Old men and young lament you, just as

    Women and maidens mourn your chastity.

  37. وكأن نعشك والبرية حوله

    فلك يشق المائج الزخارا

    Your bier, with all mankind around it, seemed

    A ship cleaving a surging, swelling sea.

  38. وكأن من أنفاسهم ودموعهم

    في خطبك الأمطار والإعصارا

    And it seemed that from their breaths and tears

    Came rain and whirlwind at the calamity of your loss.

  39. يا قائد الأبطال هذا جيشك ال

    جرار فانظر جيشك الجرارا

    O leader of heroes, this is your army,

    Vast in number—behold your vast army!

  40. أعلامهم منكوسة فكأنها

    أسراب طير ضلت الأوكارا

    Their banners are lowered, as though they were

    Flocks of birds that had lost their nests.

  41. يوم كيوم الحشر ضمهمُ وكم

    رحَّبتَ في أرب لهم مضمارا

    A day like the Day of Resurrection gathered them—how often

    You broadened their racecourse in pursuit of an aim!

  42. فلئن بكوك فقد بكيتهمُ وهم

    غرباء في أوطانهم وأسارى

    If they wept for you, you had wept for them when they were

    Strangers in their own homelands, and captives.

  43. أو يحملوك على رؤوسهمُ فقد

    أصعدتهم فوق النجوم فخارا

    And if they bear you upon their heads, you had

    Raised them above the stars in pride.

  44. ومشيعين أعزة نجباء لم

    يبكوك حتى أغضبوا الجبارا

    And noble, highborn mourners could not

    Weep for you without enraging the tyrant.

  45. وأبى عليهم في الأسى أعذارَهم

    وتقبلوا في غيظه الأعذارا

    He denied them their excuses in their grief,

    While they accepted excuses for his wrath.

  46. يرغي ويزبد ناقماً متحرقاً

    حنقاً ولو عرك الأمور لدارى

    He foams and froths, resentful, burning

    With rage; had he grappled with affairs, he would have shown tact.

  47. هل يحذرون قيوده وحدوده

    ولوَ اَنَّ دونك أجبلاً وبحارا

    Do they fear his chains and punishments,

    Even if mountains and seas barred the way to you?

  48. هذي عواطف لا تعارضها يد

    ومجازف من عارض التيارا

    These are emotions no hand can withstand,

    And reckless is whoever opposes the current.

  49. لولاك لم تبد الحوادثُ مخلصاً

    لبلاده منا ولا غدّارا

    Without you, events would not have revealed one loyal

    To his country among us, nor a traitor.

  50. ساروا وسرت فكنت أوضحَ منهجاً

    فينا وأشرف رتبة وشعارا

    They marched, and you marched, but your course was clearest

    Among us, your rank and banner noblest.

  51. وترددوا حيناً وحيناً خافتوا

    ومضيت تدعو بالجلاء جهارا

    They hesitated at times, at others lowered their voices,

    While you pressed on, openly calling for withdrawal.

  52. ولقد توسَّطت المواقع مشرفاً

    تتعرف الفرّار والكرّارا

    You stood amid the battlefields, overlooking them,

    Discerning those who fled and those who charged.

  53. فلئن سخرت من المنافق مرة

    فلقد أسفت على الجبان مرارا

    If you mocked the hypocrite once,

    You lamented the coward time and again.

  54. ما للأُلى خذلوك في أبان ما

    ترجو نصيراً أصبحوا أنصارا

    Why have those who deserted you just when

    You hoped for a helper now become supporters?

  55. عرفوا الصواب اليوم أم جاءوا كما

    ذهبوا بكل سياسة تجارا

    Have they learned what is right today, or come, as

    They went, trading in every policy?

  56. أمنوا رفاقك ما حييت وأصبحوا

    يخشون بعدك للرفاق مثارا

    They felt safe from your comrades while you lived, but now

    They fear your comrades' uprising after you.

  57. ولئن تعلل بالشماتة بعضهم

    لم يملكوا لشماتة إظهارا

    Though some of them consoled themselves by gloating,

    They could not openly display their gloating.

  58. ولربما شفت الحزينَ دموعُهُ

    وشكا الحسود الشامت الإضمارا

    Often a grieving man's tears have healed him,

    While the envious gloater lamented having to conceal his spite.

  59. أشقيتهم حياً وميتاً والعدى

    لم يبرحوا لنفوسهم أشرارا

    You made them miserable, alive and dead; your enemies

    Have never ceased doing evil to themselves.

  60. ليست عداتك من بني مصر وإن

    أوسعتهم أو أوسعوك نفارا

    Your enemies are not Egypt's own sons, even though

    You showed them deep aversion, or they showed it to you.

  61. إن العدى لمقسمو زعمائها

    ومفرِّقوهم يمنة ويسارا

    The enemies are those who divide her leaders,

    Scattering them to the right and left.

  62. لو يعلمون بأن سقمك قاتل

    لأتوا إليك ملائكاً أطهارا

    Had they known your sickness would prove fatal,

    They would have come to you as pure angels.

  63. يمحو أعاديها جنايتهم وما

    يمحو المنافق من بنيها العارا

    Her foes may wipe away their crime, but

    The hypocrite among her sons cannot wipe away his shame.

  64. أشهدت مصر على علاك ونيلها

    وصعيدها والنبت والأحجارا

    You called Egypt to witness your eminence, and her Nile,

    Her Upper Egypt, her plants, and her stones.

  65. قدستها حتى كأن لقومها ال

    أقوام أو من نهرها الأنهارا

    You hallowed her, as though to her people belonged

    All peoples, or all rivers sprang from her river.

  66. وأبحتها لسوى المحارب جامعاً

    فيها بلاد اللّه والأقطارا

    You opened her to everyone but the warrior, gathering

    Within her God's lands and countries.

  67. ولقد ظفرت بكل جبار فلم

    تترك لها عند العوادي ثارا

    You overcame every tyrant, and did not

    Leave her any vengeance to claim against her assailants.

  68. أمنتها من بعد ما مدوا إلى

    حراسها الأنياب والأظفارا

    You secured her after they had stretched

    Their fangs and claws toward her guardians.

  69. قالوا شديد البأس قلت لهم على

    قدر الفريسة يركب الأخطارا

    They said, 'Fierce in battle!' I told them, 'In

    Proportion to the prey, he braves the dangers.'

  70. إن كنت نفّاع البلاد فحجة

    لك أن يسميك العدى ضرّارا

    If you greatly benefit the country, it is testimony

    In your favor that the enemy calls you greatly harmful.

  71. أنثير حرباً في البلاد وأنت من

    منع السوابق أن تثير غبارا

    Shall we stir up war in the land, when you were the one

    Who kept the swift horses from raising dust?

  72. كذبوا الممالك والشعوب الحضَّ وال

    إغراء والآراء والأخبارا

    They fed kingdoms and peoples lies: incitement and

    Enticement, opinions and reports.

  73. وتوهموا الإخلاص للسلطان إي

    قاعاً بمن راد البلاد وزارا

    They imagined loyalty to the sultan meant

    Harming those who toured the country and visited it.

  74. هل ينكرون له علينا سؤدداً

    أو يجهلون قرابة وجوارا

    Do they deny his lordship over us,

    Or fail to recognize kinship and neighborliness?

  75. يخشون جيش الترك وهو مرابط

    ويحاذرون الجيش أنى سارا

    They fear the Turkish army while it is stationed,

    And dread the army wherever it marches.

  76. إن دافع الباغي وأمَّن خائفاً

    مستنجداً قالوا اعتدى وأغارا

    If it repels an aggressor and protects a frightened man,

    Seeking help, they say, 'It has trespassed and raided.'

  77. ولو استطاعوا أن يفرق بيننا

    حظروا علينا أن نفي ونغارا

    And if they could create division between us,

    They would forbid us to keep faith and defend our honor.

  78. ما بالهم وهم ضيوف الدار ما

    نزلوا بها حتى استباحوا الدارا

    What ails them? Though guests in the house,

    They scarcely settled there before seizing the house.

  79. صعب علينا والخطوب ملمةٌ

    لولا الخلافة أن نصون ذمارا

    It would be hard for us, with calamities upon us,

    To guard our sacred trust, were it not for the Caliphate.

  80. لو لم تَسِلْ قطعُ النفوس لشيَّدوا

    منها لك التمثال والتذكارا

    Had fragments of souls not melted away, they would have raised

    From them a statue and memorial to you.

  81. ما مات من ورثت مناه أمةٌ

    تجري على منهاجه استمرارا

    He has not died whose hopes a nation inherits,

    Following his path without cease.

  82. أحيى على يدي القوافي حرة

    من صرَّف الأحكام والأقدارا

    Through unfettered rhymes, he is given life

    By Him who ordains decrees and destinies.