1. Rise Saad, witness what misfortunes have befallen her
The tyrant violated her sanctity

2. When he saw you asleep, he pounced
Upon the beloved and subjugated her

3. She is Egypt bound in shackles, crying
After you, as the usurper strikes her nape

4. He clasped iron cuffs around her wrists
With iron has he bound her, so much did he wrong her

5. And led her like a mute slave girl
Bleeding, her blood trickling

6. Woe to him! When he bent
Her with misfortunes and rode her

7. The East roared at him with curses
And its gods trembled

8. Does Egypt have to die without
Meeting death? Sacrifice yourself for her

9. I swear by my Lebanese soul and this
Is my solemn oath until the end

10. My soul redeems Egypt, handing
Over itself for the wrongs done to her

11. And for the sanctity of her pyramids, redeem
Her from the side of the two pyramids

12. Verily, Cairo is a burning wound
For the East - it cannot live without her

13. And the calamity is that he who
Betrayed her became her jurist

14. He took the arrows of her arrows
Poisoned, and with them he struck her

15. He suppressed her hopes and destroyed
All the glory she had built

16. So her parliament is like ruins
Bleak, you can see it

17. And the delegation like a lion shackled
With iron chains in its den

18. They silenced speech, so if a word stirs
They stitch up the lips

19. They stopped the singer from singing
And the hearing from saying "ah!"

20. They imprisoned thoughts in graves
Like pariahs in their hiding places

21. They branded the press with humiliation
If a slave were so branded, he would disown it

22. And Muhammad with his hands
Oppresses, while Egypt beneath him

23. Weeps blood for her loved ones
And melts for the agony of her dear Mustafa

24. Lebanon will not accept life
While Egypt's eyelids shed their tears

25. What will the Lord find in a land
Once its waters have dried up?

26. The Nile will run dry of water
If they disgrace its people

27. Say to the heart of its queen
That the eyes have rejected despotism

28. No matter how long these nights linger
The dawn will come after them

29. And the crown will go to the one
Who protected Egypt if she called for help

30. And if a protected one cried,
Her crying provoked his crying for her

31. Never can he who shunned her consent live in her