1. جلوسك أم سلام العالمينا

    وتاجك أم هلال العز فينا

    Is this your accession, or peace for all the worlds?

    And is it your crown, or glory's crescent among us?

  2. ملكت فكنت خير المالكينا

    وأنت أجلهم دنيا ودينا

    You reigned, and were the best of rulers,

    the greatest of them in worldly affairs and religion.

  3. سرير لم يكن بالمطمئن

    وملك غادروه بغير ركن

    A throne that had not been secure,

    and a kingdom they had left without a pillar—

  4. نهضت تقيم مائله وتبنى

    فكنت الركن والسبب المتينا

    you rose to straighten its leaning structure and build,

    and became its pillar and its sturdy supporting cord.

  5. وَلِيتَ الأمر أقدرَ من يليه

    تخاف الله فيه وترتجيه

    You assumed command, the ablest of those who hold it,

    fearing God in it and placing hope in Him,

  6. وتمحو آية العهد السفيه

    وتجمع كلمة المتفرّقينا

    erasing the mark of the foolish era,

    and uniting the voices of those divided.

  7. بوقت فيه للمك انقلاب

    وللعرش اهتزاز وأضطراب

    At a time of upheaval in the realm,

    when the throne was shaking and unsettled,

  8. فقمت فقرّ في يدك العباب

    وأوشكت العواصف أن تدينا

    you arose, and the billows settled in your hand,

    and the tempests nearly bowed to you.

  9. بوقت فيه للأعدا دبيب

    إذا ما راح ذيب جاء ذيب

    At a time when enemies crept about,

    whenever one wolf went, another wolf came,

  10. لكل حزبه وبه يريب

    وكنت لربك الحزب الأمينا

    each with his faction, spreading unease through it,

    while you stood as your Lord's faithful party.

  11. عداوات ينشن الملك لدًَّا

    وأحزاب من الأتراك أعدى

    Enmities clawed at the kingdom in fierce hostility,

    and factions among the Turks were more hostile still.

  12. تخذت البعض ضدا البعض جندا

    فغال المفسدون المفسدينا

    You took some as foes, and others as troops,

    so the corrupters destroyed the corrupters.

  13. تغيرت الرجال فلا رجال

    وزَيَّنَ للغَرورين الضلال

    Men had changed: there were no men left,

    and error was made alluring to the conceited.

  14. فراموا والذي راموا محال

    ومن يرم المحال فلن يكونا

    They sought, though what they sought was impossible,

    and whoever seeks the impossible will come to nothing.

  15. تمنوا للعدو كما تمنى

    ولما يسألوا الأحياء عنا

    They wished for the enemy what he himself wished,

    without yet asking the living about us.

  16. فلا تتشبهوا يا قوم إنا

    عرفنا مصر المتشبهينا

    So do not imitate, my people: we

    have known the Egypt of imitators.

  17. حجابك عند يلدزك الجلال

    وأنت لها وللدنيا جمال

    At your Yıldız, majesty is your veil,

    and you are its beauty, and the world's.

  18. تنال الخافقين ولا تُنال

    إذا قلبتَ في الأفق الجفونا

    You reach both horizons, yet cannot be reached,

    when you turn your gaze across the horizon.

  19. يرفِّعك المقام عن أبتذال

    وعن عبث الحوادث والرجال

    Your station raises you above debasement,

    and above the whims of events and men.

  20. ومن يك ملكه حرب الليالي

    يجد لصروفها وله شؤونا

    Whoever's reign is a war against the nights

    finds affairs to occupy himself and their vicissitudes.

  21. تعالجهنِّ في سلم وحرب

    وتلقاهنِّ في شرق وغرب

    You contend with them in peace and war,

    and meet them in East and West,

  22. وتدفعهنّ من بعد وقرب

    وتثنيهن حتى ينثنينا

    and repel them from afar and near,

    and bend them until they yield.

  23. وحيدا تستعان ولا تعان

    كأنك في تفرّدك الزمان

    Alone, your help is sought, but you receive no help,

    as though, in your solitude, you were Time itself.

  24. ولكن أنت منه لنا أمان

    وأكبر أن تخون وأن تمينا

    Yet you are our safeguard against it,

    and too great to betray or lie.

  25. تلذ بما يشقّ على العباد

    وتنعم بانفرادك والسهاد

    You delight in what burdens other people,

    and find pleasure in solitude and sleeplessness.

  26. رويدا في جفونك والفؤاد

    ومهلا يا أمير المؤمنينا

    Be gentle with your eyelids and your heart,

    and take your time, Commander of the Faithful.

  27. وقبلك لم يُنم عمرَ الأنام

    وقد سهرت رعيته الكرام

    Before you, mankind would not let Umar sleep,

    though his noble subjects themselves kept vigil.

  28. وقومك عند مرقدهم نيام

    فهل تحصى على القوم السنينا

    Yet your people sleep upon their beds;

    are the years, then, reckoned against your people?

  29. تردّ على الليالي كل سهم

    ولا يرددن سهمك حين ترمى

    You send every arrow back against the nights,

    but they cannot return your arrow when you shoot.

  30. تجير على حوادثها وتحمى

    ولا يحمين منك المحتمينا

    You grant refuge against their calamities and protect,

    yet they cannot shelter from you those seeking refuge.

  31. وكم كرب كشفت وعظم هول

    بفعل منك لم يسبق بقول

    How many a distress, how mighty a terror you have dispelled,

    by deeds of yours not preceded by words;

  32. وأسطول رددت بغير حول

    تشيِّعه الخلائق ساخرينا

    and a fleet you turned back without exertion,

    with all mankind seeing it off in mockery.

  33. جمعت الأمر حين الأمر فوضى

    وشرَّفتَ اللواء وكان أرضا

    You put affairs in order when all was chaos,

    and exalted the banner that had lain upon the ground,

  34. وحصنت القرى طولا وعرضا

    بآساد يهيبِّن العرينا

    and fortified the towns throughout their length and breadth,

    with lions that make their lair fearsome.

  35. وكم لك من فيالق من طراز

    غدوا خير الجنود لخير غاز

    How many legions of fine caliber you possess,

    the finest troops for the finest warrior!

  36. إذا زحموا الضياغم في مجاز

    أبادوها وكانوا العابرينا

    When they press upon lions at a crossing,

    they annihilate them and are the ones who cross.

  37. سلاح من سلاح الموت أمضى

    إذا الإيمان يوم الروع أنضى

    Weapons keener than the weapons of death,

    when faith unsheathes them on the day of terror,

  38. وبأس ينزل الأجبال أرضا

    ويركبها إلى الهيجا متونا

    and might that brings mountains down to earth,

    and rides their backs into battle.

  39. نظمت الجيش بالقلم الحميد

    كنظمي فيك أبيات النشيد

    You arrayed the army with your praiseworthy pen,

    as I compose the verses of this song in your praise.

  40. فإن فتشت عن بيت القصيد

    قرأت الفتح والنصر المبينا

    And if you search for the crowning verse,

    you read conquest and manifest victory.

  41. وفتح في العدوّ لنا جليل

    شفعناه من الصفح الجميل

    A great victory over the enemy was ours;

    we followed it with gracious pardon,

  42. بأجمل منه من فعل الجميل

    فكنا القادرين الصافحينا

    and with finer still: the doing of good.

    So we were powerful, yet forgiving.

  43. بطشت فلم تدع لهمو وجودا

    وكان البطش إشفاقا وجودا

    You struck, and left them no existence,

    yet your assault was compassion and generosity.

  44. صدقت قياصر العصر الوعودا

    تريهم كيف عهد الظافرينا

    You fulfilled your promises to the Caesars of the age,

    showing them how victors keep their word.

  45. وقائع في الزمان هي الجسام

    إذا ذكرت لنا سأل الأنام

    Battles that stand mighty in the course of time—

    when recounted to our credit, people ask:

  46. أجيش للخليفة أم غمام

    أظلَّ تساليا سمحا هتونا

    Was it the Caliph's army, or a cloud

    that shaded Thessaly, bountiful and pouring rain?

  47. وقبل النصر نصر قد تجلى

    عُلاً في العصر آثارا وجلّى

    Before this victory, another victory shone forth,

    lofty in its imprint upon the age, and radiant.

  48. ظهرت على الحوادث وهي جُلى

    وأكمدت العدا والشامتينا

    You prevailed over events, though they were momentous,

    and plunged enemies and gloaters into grief.

  49. تخبط قومه فيك الخطيب

    يريبك في المجامع ما يريب

    The orator bewildered his people concerning you,

    raising whatever doubts he could about you in assemblies.

  50. فما سمع الهلال ولا الصليب

    بغيرك في عقاب المعتدينا

    Yet neither crescent nor cross has heard

    of anyone but you in punishing aggressors.

  51. يزيد سفاهة فتزيد حلما

    لأنت أجل أخلاقا وأسمى

    He grows in folly; you grow in forbearance.

    Indeed, you are nobler in character and loftier.

  52. فكنت لساكن البلقان سلما

    وكان محرّك الشر الكمينا

    So you were peace for the people of the Balkans,

    while he stirred up the lurking evil.

  53. كفيت الخلق نارا قد أثارا

    وللشرف الرفيع أخذت ثارا

    You spared mankind a fire he had kindled,

    and avenged exalted honor.

  54. وقد يمحو بك الإسلام عارا

    إذا الإسلام في يوم أُهينا

    Through you Islam may wipe away a stain,

    if ever Islam should be dishonored,

  55. بحزم ليس من قال وقيل

    وعز ليس بالرجل العليل

    with resolve, not idle talk and hearsay,

    and might, not that of an ailing man,

  56. وبطش من يدَى سمح منيل

    كريم معرق في الأكرمينا

    and a mighty blow from the two hands of a generous giver,

    a noble man rooted among the noblest.

  57. أسود الترك هبى ثم هبى

    وهزى الأرض في شرق وغرب

    Lions of the Turks, arise, then arise again,

    and shake the earth in East and West,

  58. بمن يزجي الجيوش ومن يعبى

    ومن يحمى المواقع والحصونا

    with him who sends armies forth and him who arrays them,

    and him who guards the positions and fortresses.

  59. وحيِّى من أقامك يا قلاع

    ومن لك تحت رايته أمتناع

    And salute him who raised you, O fortresses,

    and him beneath whose banner you are impregnable.

  60. فليس كهذه بشرى تذاع

    ولا كجلوس ربك تعلنينا

    No glad tidings like these are broadcast,

    nor do you proclaim any like your master's accession.

  61. أشيري يا أرامل للسماء

    ويا أيتام ضجوا بالدعاء

    Point toward heaven, O widows,

    and you orphans, cry aloud in prayer,

  62. ويا شهداء ناجوا بالبقاء

    إذا سُمع الملائك هاتفينا

    and you martyrs, whisper prayers for enduring life,

    when the angels are heard calling out.

  63. إذا شاقتكم الأوطان يوما

    أو أشتقتم بها أهلا وقوما

    If one day your homelands awaken longing in you,

    or you long for the family and people within them,

  64. فناموا في أمان الله نوما

    فكل عند خير الكافلينا

    then sleep your sleep in God's protection,

    for all are in the care of the best of guardians.

  65. أربَّ العيد هذا العيد يُجلَى

    وكم لك من دعاء فيه يتلى

    O master of the festival, this festival is unveiled,

    and many a prayer for you is recited at it;

  66. ولكن شاعر الإسلام أعلى

    وأوقع في نفوس المسلمينا

    but Islam's poet is loftier,

    and more moving to the souls of Muslims.

  67. لقد بيضت للملك الليالي

    فليل الملك بالزينات حالي

    You have indeed brightened the nights of kingship,

    so the kingdom's night is decked with ornaments.

  68. وكم لك في القلوب من احتفال

    يكاد الجسم عنه أن يبينا

    How much celebration of you there is in hearts—

    the body almost breaks away from it.

  69. وهذى مصر باسطة اليدين

    تؤدّى من ولائك خير دين

    Here is Egypt, stretching out both hands,

    discharging her finest debt of loyalty to you,

  70. وتلحظ عيدك الأسنى بعين

    تفاجى بالهوى تلك العيونا

    and watching your most radiant festival with an eye

    that surprises those eyes with love.

  71. فهل عند الإمام لها قبول

    وهل نحو الإمام لها وصول

    Will she find acceptance with the Imam?

    And is there a way for her to reach the Imam,

  72. فتشكو من جراح ما تزول

    وكيف يزول ما بلغ الوتينا

    so she may complain of wounds that will not heal?

    How can what has reached the aorta vanish?

  73. أتتك تغض من طرف الحياء

    تتوب إليك من ماضي الرياء

    She has come to you, lowering her modest gaze,

    repenting before you of her former hypocrisy,

  74. وتبسط في ثراك يد الرجاء

    وتُلقى فيه آمال البنينا

    and stretching out the hand of hope upon your earth,

    and laying in it the hopes of her sons.

  75. فقابلها بعطفك والنوال

    وأنزلها بسوحك والظلال

    Receive her, then, with your affection and bounty,

    and give her lodging in your courts and shade.

  76. أدام الله ذاتك للمعالي

    وأيَّد تاجها ورعى الجبينا

    May God preserve your person for lofty deeds,

    and uphold your crown and guard your brow.