1. مصر أُمُّ الدنيا كما لقَّبوها

    ليس في الكون مثلها من مكانِ

    Egypt is the mother of the world, as they have called her.

    There is no place like her in the universe.

  2. سبكتها يد الطبيعة منذ ال

    بدءِ سبكاً في قالب الإِتقانش

    The hand of nature cast her from the

    beginning, casting her in the mold of perfection.

  3. وكستها يد المحاسن ثوباً

    ليس يبلي جديده الملوانِ

    And the hand of beauty clothed her in a robe

    whose freshness day and night cannot wear away.

  4. واذا الارض كان فيها جنان

    فاعلموا أن مصر ابهى الجنانِ

    And if there are gardens upon the earth,

    then know that Egypt is the fairest of gardens.

  5. جنةٌ فيها من فواكه رمَّا

    ن ونخلٍ وغيرها زوجانِ

    A garden with fruits—pomegra-

    nates, date palms, and others—of two kinds.

  6. كُلُّ هذي قطوفها يانعات

    وجنى الجنتين في مصر دانِ

    The fruit clusters of all these are ripe,

    and the fruit of the two gardens in Egypt is within reach.

  7. وهي أُمُّ الاهرام اقدم ما في ال

    أرض شادته باقياً يدُ بانَ

    And she is the mother of the pyramids, the oldest works on the

    earth that a builder's hand raised to endure.

  8. مَن بنوها فنوا ليصدق فيهم

    قوله كل من عليها فانِ

    Those who built them perished, that in them might be fulfilled

    His saying: 'Everyone upon it shall perish.'