1. The command is yours - are we waiting or not?
Do you have its perils or do we?

2. And how will you march towards us tomorrow?
And how will you revolve around us tomorrow?

3. And how is the road to what I saw
Of what was inspired and taught to you?

4. You have filled this bag over there
So empty it upon the people here

5. And bring, as you wish, the final word
Whether your judgement be harmful or good

6. It is but the conscience of time
That returns openly amongst us

7. And preoccupies after the return, the hearts
With it, and the ears, and the eyes

8. And it executes in Egypt what it drew
For Egypt, the record, and what we transcribed

9. And it gives the benefits to its seekers
On condition that it be weighed and measured

10. And it finds their consciences behind them
Until they are sold and mortgaged

11. So this is their obedient father
And this is their dear humbled

12. And each led by his deadline
That nearly comes to you seeking permission

13. And you witness in the place of brethren
Who became enemies, so they knew not the dwelling

14. They pelt each other with evil
Not with swords or spears

15. Two angry ones accuse the indifferent
To him, his clan with betrayal

16. He isolates himself behind the ranks
Saying: I am the only people!

17. And denies the leadership of others
Even if he came with good through leading

18. He does not accept what was built by others
Even if it were the fortress of sanctity he built

19. As if the country refused beside him
And brought him alone as its source

20. And turbulent, muddled is his voice
About Egypt and its rescue in London

21. He saw in discord his prominence
So discord became his habit

22. And an oppressor is darkened, the complainant
To the foreigner, keeping away or drawing near

23. Whoever enabled an adversary from his own people
For the adversary from himself he enabled

24. And the cunning one pleased the enemies
And pleased, so he secured and trusted

25. And formed his rule through favor
So the favor was lost and not formed

26. Had he willed, and he is the determined, mighty
He would have folded the pages and seized the tongues

27. His arrogance made him twist
And if a mountain opposed, it would not bend

28. And when he passed, his supporters turned back
And they are the worst of his enemies, faulting

29. And he still hopes to return
To what became impossible and unfeasible

30. And the successor is reassured, easy of way
To what he had hidden and what was declared

31. He passed moderately between his extremes, neither
Violent in manner nor soft

32. Perhaps after he assumed leadership the ship
Will survive with us aboard

33. And pages clamoring with what is improper
And brings no benefit and cannot be gained

34. And they tell of the unknown from fate
As if they have a store with it

35. And they receive hypocrisy from both sides
From those who doubt them and those who believe

36. So this one flies with them recklessly
And that one inclines to them obediently

37. Not every follower of a principle
Remains a believer in his principle

38. And how often people turned this time
To live in it and how we formed it

39. Those are sick ones whom I cure
After we fell ill and aged

40. And I carry their burdens for them
Until I am banished or imprisoned

41. It is as if I did not come amongst them
Except to anger or sadden

42. And if the blood would wash the sin of time
I would wash with my blood what it reaped

43. And if I did not stand amongst them as a poet
I would not have tasted this agony and toil

44. And if I were among them a merchant
My bliss and wealth would have been

45. We carried the burden of antiquity
To our tomorrow from our yesterday

46. What a predecessor brought before us
Will be rewarded through a successor after us

47. What some of us stretched
As a bond to others, we all took

48. It is us who invited the adversary
And brought him as a judge between us

49. At times he drowns us with purpose
And at times he unites us with purpose

50. If he wills, he releases an army, and if
He wishes, he releases the careful surveillance

51. And he may mention truth alluringly
To test whoever he wills to test

52. The conquerors have never plunged
Into land one day as we plunged

53. We stopped and the world surpassed us
If only we were with them, if only we were

54. Egypt tried its parties
So who protected Egypt? Who fortified us?

55. It narrowed with the differing planters
Where is the shade? Where is the harvest?

56. Do you know? So ask it, which of us
Is a martyr to its cause? Which of us?

57. And who is in it the great leader
With what assembles our unity today?

58. And who does not negotiate with that adversary
While he remains as he is on our land?

59. And who guarantees the people whatever
Of its wishes the people want guaranteed?