Sol 6.1

  1. يا زعيمَ الأحرار قولاً وفعلا

    عد إلى الحكم محسناً فيه عدلا

    O leader of the free, in word and deed,

    Return to rule, beneficent and just within it.

  2. أمس فارقته جليلاً وقد عا

    ودته للدوام فيه أجلا

    Yesterday you left it illustrious, and you have

    returned to it more illustrious still, to remain there.

  3. والذي يملك المقاليدَ أعطا

    ك ويا نعمَ من تولى وولى

    And he who holds the keys has given it

    to you—how excellent he who governs and appoints!

  4. ظفرت منك منذ عشر ببعض

    مصر واليوم منك تطلب كلا

    A part of you was won ten years ago

    by Egypt; today she asks of you the whole.

  5. وتسلمتها رسولاً لنعما

    ها اصطفى من صحابة الخير رسلا

    And you took charge of her, an envoy for her prosperity,

    who chose messengers from among the companions of goodness.

  6. والذي في شبابه أحسن الأم

    ر أحق السراة بالأمر كهلا

    And he who handled affairs well in his youth

    is, in maturity, most worthy among the nobles to govern.

  7. من حديد يداً ملكت ولكن

    ن وراء الحديد قلباً وعقلا

    You possessed a hand of iron; yet

    behind the iron lay a heart and a mind.

  8. بين كلِّ العباد بالحقِّ تقضي

    وترى الطاعةَ الكريمةَ فضلا

    You judge with justice among all people,

    and regard noble obedience as a virtue.

  9. من يجئْ راضياً أراح ومن ول

    لى فعذراً يلقى لديك ومهلا

    Whoever comes willingly brings relief, and whoever turns away

    finds pardon and respite with you.

  10. لا يخاف اليمين ناقضها ما

    دام كرهاً عقد اليمين وجهلا

    An oath-breaker need not fear his oath, so long

    as he swore it under compulsion and in ignorance.

  11. ولقد تذهب الخصومة أو تب

    قى وقدر البلادِ أعلى وأغلى

    The dispute may well end or endure,

    yet the country's worth is higher and more precious.

  12. أيعود العنادُ يوماً ولم تب

    ق لدعوى المكابرين محلا

    Will obstinacy ever return, when you have left

    no room for the claim of the arrogant disputants?

  13. لم تدع دعوة الكرام إلى الل

    ه كفوراً باللّه يعبد عجلا

    The noble people's call to God has left

    no disbeliever in God worshipping a calf.

  14. ولك الرفقُ بالمصرّ على الطب

    ع عسى تستطيع للطبع نقلا

    And yours is gentleness toward one stubborn in his nature;

    perhaps you can bring about a change in that nature.

  15. ومن الحزم والمروءة حرما

    نك من ليس للرعاية أهلا

    And firmness and honor lie in your withholding favor

    from one who is unworthy of care.

  16. ولقد يصبحُ الأقلُ كثيراً

    ولقد يصبحُ الكثيرُ أقلا

    The few may indeed become many,

    and the many may indeed become fewer.

  17. ما لقتلى الجهاد باتوا وهم لل

    شهوات الكريهة اليوم قتلى

    What ails the fallen of the struggle, that they have become

    today the victims of loathsome desires?

  18. شيعةٌ للزعيم في يد هاما

    ن استغلت شيطانه واستغلا

    A faction of the leader in Haman's hand

    exploited his devil, and he exploited them in turn.

  19. صنمٌ غرّ عابديه وغرُّو

    ه وكانت تلك العبادة هزلا

    An idol deceived his worshippers, and they deceived him;

    and that worship was a farce.

  20. وتجنوا على الذي يهب العز

    زَ فلاقوا منه هواناً وذلا

    And they falsely accused the one who grants honor,

    so from him they received humiliation and abasement.

  21. والذي أدركوه في غفلةِ الأي

    يامِ فروا به طعاماً معلا

    And what they gained while the days were heedless,

    they fled with it as unwholesome food.

  22. ليس من يترك المناصب طوعاً

    مثل من يترك المناصبَ عزلا

    One who leaves office willingly is not

    like one who leaves office dismissed.

  23. أعلى نفسه مضى أم على الأق

    دار يلقى الطريد ناراً وغلا

    Has he gone against himself, or against

    fate? The outcast meets fire and fetters.

  24. قد يجنُّ المغيظُ حتى تراه

    وهو شيخٌ من غيظه صار طفلا

    The enraged man may go mad until you see him,

    though an old man, turned by his rage into a child.

  25. حسبهم دولة الزمان حسيباً

    وكفاهم لما أساءوا سجلا

    Time's shifting fortune is reckoner enough for them,

    and record enough of the wrong they have done.

  26. فيك لاموا من اصطفاك وأغروا

    بك من خانهم فكانوا أضلا

    On your account they blamed the one who chose you, and incited

    against you the one who betrayed them; thus they were more misguided.

  27. لو أصابوا لتابعوك وقد أع

    رض عنهم شفيعهم وتخلى

    Had they judged rightly, they would have followed you; and already

    their intercessor had turned away from them and withdrawn.

  28. انتهت عندك الرواية بالعق

    بى وأنت الأتم دوراً وفصلا

    With you the drama has reached its conclusion;

    and yours are the fullest role and act.

  29. فامض في الملك باسم فاروق وارفع

    بين عرشيهِ شعبه المستقلا

    So go on governing in Farouk's name, and uplift

    his independent people between his two thrones.