بَكِّرْ بتبشير البلاد وأهلها

بَكِّرْ بتبشير البلاد وأهلها

بالكابر الميمون من آمالها

بالكابر الميمون من آمالها

Rise early to bring glad tidings to the land and her people,

Announce the good tidings to the country and its people

Of the great, auspicious one among her hopes,

Of the auspicious leader of its hopes

بالبَرِّ من أبنائها بالطهر من

بالبَرِّ من أبنائها بالطهر من

أغصانها بالحر من أشبالها

أغصانها بالحر من أشبالها

Of the dutiful one among her sons, of the pure one among

Of the dutifulness of its sons, the purity of

Her branches, of the noble one among her lion cubs,

Its branches, the freedom of its cubs

بأميرها المفديِّ بالنجم الذي

بأميرها المفديِّ بالنجم الذي

ترعاه مصر في سماء جلالها

ترعاه مصر في سماء جلالها

Of her cherished prince, of the star whom

Of its redeemer prince, the star

Egypt tends in the heaven of her majesty.

Guarded by Egypt in the sky of its glory

في كل ناد مهرجان حافل

في كل ناد مهرجان حافل

بولائها ومظاهر استدلالها

بولائها ومظاهر استدلالها

In every gathering place, a festival brims

In every club there is a crowded festival

With her loyalty and displays of her reasoning.

Of its loyalty and proofs of its reasoning

فاروق باللقب المقدس جئتها

فاروق باللقب المقدس جئتها

في عز رايتها وسعد هلالها

في عز رايتها وسعد هلالها

Farouk, with the sacred title, you have come to her

O Farouk, with the sacred title you came

Amid her banner’s glory and her crescent’s good fortune.

When its flag was flying proudly and its crescent was fortunate

ترجو وترقب منك في أرجائها

ترجو وترقب منك في أرجائها

ما خلَّد الماضون من أبطالها

ما خلَّد الماضون من أبطالها

She hopes for and awaits from you throughout her lands

It hopes and waits for you in its regions

What her heroes of old made immortal.

What the predecessors immortalized of its heroes

في المهد أنت الآن مطلع على

في المهد أنت الآن مطلع على

جاري مسائلها وسائر حالها

جاري مسائلها وسائر حالها

Now, in the cradle, you are aware of

In the cradle you are now aware

Her current affairs and her whole condition.

Of its ongoing issues and the rest of its conditions

بدت الشمائل في مخايلك التي

بدت الشمائل في مخايلك التي

تغري ذوي الآمال باستعجالها

تغري ذوي الآمال باستعجالها

Virtues have appeared in your promising features, which

The features appeared in your imaginations that

Entice those who cherish hopes to hasten their fulfillment.

Make those of high hopes impatient

أقبلت والأيام موفية كما

أقبلت والأيام موفية كما

يرجو أبوك ومصر في إقبالها

يرجو أبوك ومصر في إقبالها

You have come, and the days fulfill their promise, as

You came while the days were fulfilling as

Your father hopes, while Egypt enjoys good fortune.

Your father and Egypt hoped for its rising

كملت بك الدنيا له وتكفلت

كملت بك الدنيا له وتكفلت

بدوامها الأقدار بعد كمالها

بدوامها الأقدار بعد كمالها

Through you his world is complete, and a pledge is made

The world was completed with you for him and

By the fates to sustain it after its perfection.

The fates guaranteed its perpetuity after its perfection

يلقى رسائل كل مملكة فمن

يلقى رسائل كل مملكة فمن

معتزها زاهي ومن مختالها

معتزها زاهي ومن مختالها

He receives messages from every kingdom; so among

He receives messages from every kingdom, so whoever

Their proud and exultant he shines.

Is proud of it is blooming and whoever is boastful

فياحة بالتهنئات قصوره

فياحة بالتهنئات قصوره

وحياضه فياضة بنوالها

وحياضه فياضة بنوالها

His palaces are fragrant with congratulations,

His palaces overflowing with congratulations

And his pools overflow with their bounty.

And its courtyards overflowing with its gifts

شملت مراحمه السجين سماحة

شملت مراحمه السجين سماحة

وكرامة لك والغريب الوالها

وكرامة لك والغريب الوالها

His mercies embraced the prisoner, in generosity

His compassion included the imprisoned with nobility

And in your honor, and the distraught stranger too.

And generosity for you and the estranged with care

والسلم تحت روائه والشعب في

والسلم تحت روائه والشعب في

أمتاعه بظلاله وظلالها

أمتاعه بظلاله وظلالها

And peace lies beneath his splendor, and the people dwell in

And peace is under its banners and the people in

The delight he grants beneath his shade and hers.

Its possessions under its shades and their shades

ولدت لأمته بمولدك المنى

ولدت لأمته بمولدك المنى

ورأت أريكته عظيم منالها

ورأت أريكته عظيم منالها

With your birth, hopes were born for his nation,

You were born for its nation with your desired birth

And his throne beheld its splendid prize.

And its platform saw your great achievements

فعلى منابرها سلام حصونها

فعلى منابرها سلام حصونها

وعلى مآذنها هتاف جبالها

وعلى مآذنها هتاف جبالها

So on her pulpits sounds her fortresses’ salute,

On its pulpits, greetings to its fortresses

And on her minarets, the acclaim of her mountains.

And on its minarets, the chanting of its mountains

برت بمصر أبوة لك سمحة

برت بمصر أبوة لك سمحة

في بدئها وإليك حسن مآلها

في بدئها وإليك حسن مآلها

A generous fatherhood toward you has been kind to Egypt

Egypt shone with fatherhood for you, noble

At its outset; its happy outcome rests with you.

In its beginning and to you a good outcome

في بشر وجهك طلعة الآمال في

في بشر وجهك طلعة الآمال في

حرية الأوطان واستقلالها

حرية الأوطان واستقلالها

In the gladness of your face dawn hopes for

In your happy face the hopes risen for

The freedom of homelands and their independence.

The freedom of homelands and their independence

لبني عليٍّ تاجها ولوواؤها

لبني عليٍّ تاجها ولوواؤها

وهمُ ضمان كيانها وجمالها

وهمُ ضمان كيانها وجمالها

Her crown and banner belong to the sons of Ali,

For the Alid crown and its standard

And they guarantee her existence and her beauty.

They are the guarantee of its entity and its beauty

أهوال هذي الأرض سائرة وفي

أهوال هذي الأرض سائرة وفي

غدك المبارك منتهى أهوالها

غدك المبارك منتهى أهوالها

The terrors of this land continue, and in

The horrors of this land are over, and in

Your blessed tomorrow lies the end of her terrors.

Your blessed tomorrow is the end of its horrors

والناس في أخلاقهم مرضى وما

والناس في أخلاقهم مرضى وما

يشفيهم منها سوى استبدالها

يشفيهم منها سوى استبدالها

And people are ailing in their morals, and nothing

And the people are sick in their morals, and nothing

Cures them of this but replacing those morals.

Cures them but replacing them

وحراسة الأقدار ذاهبة بها

وحراسة الأقدار ذاهبة بها

ما دامت الحراس من أغوالها

ما دامت الحراس من أغوالها

And fate’s guardianship is sweeping her away,

The guardians of fate are leaving with it

So long as the guards are among her ogres.

As long as the guards are from its brutes

لا تكبر الأوطان ذا مال وذا

لا تكبر الأوطان ذا مال وذا

جاه إذا لم يبق من عمالها

جاه إذا لم يبق من عمالها

Nations do not exalt a man of wealth or of

No homelands grow great with money and status

Rank if he does not remain among their workers,

If its deeds do not remain from its workers

للعادل المقضي من أحكامها

للعادل المقضي من أحكامها

والطائل المحدود من آجالها

والطائل المحدود من آجالها

For the justice decreed in their judgments,

For the just arbiter of its rulings

And the long yet bounded span of their days.

And the taker of its predetermined lifetimes

فاحفظ مكارم مصر في جاراتها

فاحفظ مكارم مصر في جاراتها

واحرس مرافق مصر في أمثالها

واحرس مرافق مصر في أمثالها

So preserve Egypt’s noble virtues among her neighbors,

So keep Egypt’s virtues with its neighbors

And guard Egypt’s interests among her peers.

And guard Egypt’s paths in its examples