1. O Egypt, how many an ignorant one
Has become Westernized even in his steps

2. He has denied the East though it's his origin
And craved the West and its afflictions

3. He got used to lampooning his own people
Thus is one enslaved by his habits

4. His hands strive towards his misery
And he seeks pride through his errors

5. And destroys with vileness what the ancestors
Had built with love and their pleasures

6. He lost loyalty and sold dignity
And to the West displayed his follies

7. And exhibited vulgarity, pretending to be civilized
To make his gang of fools laugh

8. And was tempted to kill his noble fathers
To frolic fancifully in their haunts

9. Wine is sparkling, faces are rosy, bodies are luscious
And chastity is allowed for his pleasure

10. Is this not odd that he who
Criticizes God and His signs?

11. Tomorrow he will think blasphemy a condition
For anyone who adds progress to his essence

12. So O soul, be patient with what
The East is afflicted with from its elite

13. For today even its children have stung it
Leaving it prey for its neighbors

14. Great souls, little minds
And a universe that confuses with its states