فوق أرض الحمى وتحت سمائِهْ

أبعث التهنئات في أرجائِهْ

Over the land of zeal and under its skies

I send congratulations throughout its horizons

عشتُ حتى شهدتُ في مستوى العم

ر جلاءَ العادي وطيَّ لوائه

I lived to witness in an age of blindness

The return of the sublime standard and the folding of its banners

ورأت مصرُ يومَ ذكرى عليٍّ

عودَ سلطانهِ إلى أبنائه

And Egypt saw on the anniversary of Ali

The return of its sultan to its people

ردّ فيها حياتَهُ البائدُ البا

لي ولاقى العليلُ نعمى شفائه

In it, the withered blossom regained its life

And the ailing found the bliss of his cure

وأطلَّ التاريخُ من شرفات ال

دهر في تيهِهِ وفي خُيَلائه

And history leaned out from the balconies of time

Lost in its winding paths and its imaginations

يملأ الخافقين عطراً ونوراً

من أحاديثه ومن أنبائه

Filling the horizons with fragrance and light

From its conversations and its news

كادت القلعةُ المنيعةُ تسعى

في ضحى عيدها إلى بُشرائه

The impregnable citadel almost set out

In the morning of its feast, to give it glad tidings

وهي أغلى أمانةٍ لعليٍّ

في ذمام الأبرار من أمنائه

It is the most precious trust of Ali

Among the righteous leaders of its trustees

وكأني أراه في هذه اللي

لة بين الأطهار من شهدائه

It's as if I can see him on this night

Among the purest of its martyrs

وكأني أرى فتوحاته اليو

مَ جميعاً في ساعةٍ من مَسائه

It's as if I can see all his conquests

In an hour of his evenings

حبذا العام بعد ستين عاماً

جاءَ يمحو شقاءَها بهنائه

Blessed be the year after sixty years

That came to erase its misery with its bliss

مهَّدَتْ صيفَهُ المقاديرُ للعز

زة والخير والرضا في شتائه

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

وأتى الظافرُ المُدلَّلُ في خَش

يته بعد كبره وإبائه

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

يترضَّى أجل من يقبل الصل

حَ وفرضَ السلام في أكفائه

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

ما تجني ولا استراب ولكن

ن عليه الحسيب من عزمائه

Other than being ungrateful to the ally, if his pact and loyalty do not avail

The Nile made a nation that secured it

من تكن نيةُ السماح له وال

حقِ عاد العدوُّ من أصدقائه

In its springs and all its parts

And existence extended from its banks

ومن الفضل والجميل عليه

أن يرى أهلَ مصرَ من حلفائه

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

غير مغنٍ بأس الحليف إذا لم

يُغن ميثاقُه وصدقُ وفائه

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

ألف النيلُ أمةً أمَّنَتْهُ

في ينابيعه وفي أجزائه

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

وأمدّ الوجود من شاطئيه

بِجَنَى غرسه وفائض مائه

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

وانتهى الشعب من قضيته الكب

رى بمحتوم حكمه وقضائه

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

بِخُفُوقِ القلوب جاء يُحيِّي

في خفوق اللواء روحَ رجائه

Is the valley's fullness and the fullness of its space

Illness preoccupied me from my duty to it

جمع الوادي شملهَ وتلاقتْ

في ميادينه قوى زعمائه

And that's my excuse to its father of poets

وتمادتْ به إلى ما تمنا

هُ غواليِّ دمعهِ ودمائه

واستمد الوادي المقدسُ من را

عيه أسبابَ رغده ورخائه

واطمأن الراعي الأمين إلى مُحْ

كم أركانه ومُعلي بنائه

حاكم الشعب من ينال قلوب ال

شعب لا من يخوض في أحشائه

وإذا ما تمكن الحكم فالعد

ل ضمينُ امْتداده وبقائه

قلَّ شعري وحقُّ ذا اليوم عندي

منه ملءُ الوادي وملءُ فضائه

أقعدتني السقام عن واجبيه

وهي عذري إلى أبي شعرائه