1. My people are not my people, nor are supporters my supporters
If the day comes to reap glory's harvest while my supporters abandon me

2. Had the pharaohs not backed me, I would not be
The lofty lord of the exalted throne and glory

3. Nor would I be the despot of this valley if its mountains
Had not been safe from my supporters' raids

4. Do not go near the Nile if you will not work
Its sweet water was not created for the lazy

5. Push the Milky Way back to its spring
Or seek another stream to quench the thirsty

6. Build as past generations built
Leave no pride behind for humankind

7. I ordered you, so obey the order of your Lord
Let no second obedience make a listener hesitate

8. For kingship is an order, and obediences race with it
Side by side, towards the limits of benevolence

9. Do not abandon the impossible in its impossibility
Until it unveils for you the face of possibility

10. An utterance descended from its speaker's throne
Upon the shoulders of heroes and the brave

11. The land knelt before it in dread, and whatever was in the rugged peaks submitted,
Had anyone but Pharaoh uttered it to the assembled

12. In any land but Egypt, it would be deemed a waking dream
But when Pharaoh proclaimed it to a mountain, its rocks gathered in his fist

13. And throngs assisted him, by whom the valley flowed with the past of the brimming people
They build what generations will stand before, amazed

14. Between admiration and submission,
Of all that no mind conceived, nor did eyes open

15. Upon its like in the cosmos
And when they take to a task, they resemble

16. Jinn flying at Solomon's command
Loyal to the authority, not out of fear or greed

17. But created seekers of perfection
Their pyramids still breathe living art

18. Making citadels of rocks above the abyss
An epoch passed over them, yet they mock

19. What decays of palaces and buildings
Night and day took from them only

20. What ants take from the pillars of an orchard
As if they and the ravines around them

21. Were the toppled construction of devils for Satan
Delegations from the whole world came to them

22. All hastening out of yearning for what immortalizes the perishable
Their grandeur belittled everything existent

23. And their structure humbled every edifice
And the denier of the people's superiority came back acknowledging

24. Praising the people openly and in secret
Those sanctuaries in the cities bear witness

25. To their precedence, their diligence
And that in might and capacity

26. Pharaoh and the people of Pharaoh are their peers
If a stone stands witness to them

27. In one temple, the others prove it true
As if they and the peoples are humble scrolls

28. Before them from another world
The eyes meet embodied images amid them

29. The cry of symbols circled the walls
Had they been given a voice, it would have

30. An echo frightening jinn and men alike
Where are they who carved their history in stone

31. And made small all kings and sultans?
They perished, and after their traces states perished

32. And they went into the folds of chronicles and shrouds
Leaving behind an immortalized war

33. In the cosmos, between stones and eras
O sleeper, while darkness hides the canal

34. Awaken, many a security is unsafe
And look around you, so much fear and caution

35. For since they were created, the thickets were the lair of bandits
The sun is unsafe though it is the sun, what destinies

36. Concealed for it in the folds of thoughts
Abdul Hamid, what you have done will be counted tomorrow

37. Among the people and weighed in the scales
If good outweighs, excellent, from a good deed

38. You entered the band of happy immortals
But if evil prevails, your gang was counted

39. In its mansion among the strongest giants
If you are no lion, time will not praise you for any period

40. O Sheikh of Sultans, be Sheikh of peasants
We know you do not accept when the kings' game

41. Falls short of the ultimate prize
Let not people's judgment weary you, for tomorrow

42. It will be reconsidered under the Sultan of Sultans
O people of Uthman, revive in your covenants

43. The age of rectitude, and coat ferocity in gentleness
If you support him, you will see fulfilled what

44. Those millions' souls aspired to
Truth is safer than eggs, unsheathe before the swords

45. Swords of proofs
Do not clothe his reputation among people tomorrow

46. Stained with the blood of poor souls
O He who strips kingship of all but His majesty

47. And clothes the people in the garb of honor and humiliation
And makes order and judgments between them

48. The secret of angels or the secret of devils