1. Over the land of zeal and under its skies
I send congratulations throughout its horizons

2. I lived to witness in an age of blindness
The return of the sublime standard and the folding of its banners

3. And Egypt saw on the anniversary of Ali
The return of its sultan to its people

4. In it, the withered blossom regained its life
And the ailing found the bliss of his cure

5. And history leaned out from the balconies of time
Lost in its winding paths and its imaginations

6. Filling the horizons with fragrance and light
From its conversations and its news

7. The impregnable citadel almost set out
In the morning of its feast, to give it glad tidings

8. It is the most precious trust of Ali
Among the righteous leaders of its trustees

9. It's as if I can see him on this night
Among the purest of its martyrs

10. It's as if I can see all his conquests
In an hour of his evenings

11. Blessed be the year after sixty years
That came to erase its misery with its bliss

12. Fate paved its summer for glory, good, and consent in its winter
And the victorious beloved came in his shyness after his old age and defiance

13. Accepting the peace of one who accepts reconciliation and imposes peace among his peers
Not avenging nor doubting, but the reckoner among his resolute men is upon him

14. Whoever's intention is forgiveness and truth, the enemy returns as a friend to him
And of his grace and favor upon him, is to see Egypt's people as his allies

15. Other than being ungrateful to the ally, if his pact and loyalty do not avail
The Nile made a nation that secured it

16. In its springs and all its parts
And existence extended from its banks

17. The harvest of its planting and the surplus of its water
And the people concluded their great issue with the destined judgment of his rule and decree

18. With the throbbing of hearts, he came to revive in the fluttering of the banner the spirit of its hope
The valley gathered its unity and its powers of leadership met

19. In its arenas, and with him they extended to what its tears and blood longed for
And the sacred valley drew from its shepherd the means of its prosperity and comfort

20. And the faithful shepherd was reassured by the pillars of its pillars and the elevations of its structure
The ruler of the people is one who wins the hearts of the people, not one who delves into its entrails

21. And when authority is established, justice is the guarantor of its extension and permanence
My poetry is little, and the right of this day to me

22. Is the valley's fullness and the fullness of its space
Illness preoccupied me from my duty to it

23. And that's my excuse to its father of poets