ولائي كما أخلصتُه لك دائمُ

وحكمك بالإحسان والعدل دائمُ

My allegiance as I have sincerely given it to you is always

And your rule with benevolence and justice is always

وحبك عندي حب مصر وأهلها

وما هو إلا الفرضُ والفرضُ لازم

And my love for you is the love of Egypt and its people

And it is nothing but duty and duty is binding

وتكريمك المشهود تكريم أمة

لك اجتمعت أعيادها والمواسم

And your acclaimed honor is the honor of a nation

For you its occasions and seasons have gathered

وما الحزب والنادي الذي فيه يحْتفي

بك الحزب إلا دولة وعواصم

And which party or club that celebrates you

Except the party is a state and capitals

وزاد لأحرار الحمى في جهادهم

وللصحُبِ الأبرار هذي الولائم

And an increase for the free spirited in their struggle

And for the righteous companions these feasts

من الكوثر الخلدي ما أنت شارب

هنا ومن الفردوس ما أنت طاعم

Of the eternal Kawthar what you are drinking

And from these morals the one scattering his greetings to you as fragrance and the one composing poems gifts you

ومن هذه الأخلاق يهديك ناثر

تحيتَه عطراً ويهديك ناظم

You have reached the hoped extent in the kingdom faultlessly

And you are to the Lord of the kingdom and the kingdom is your servant

بلغت المدى المأمول في الملك سؤدداً

وأنت لرب الملك والملك خادم

You have done your duty to the state

Its pillars have risen and the pillars are firm

قضيت به حقاً عليك لدولة

علت واستوت أركانها والدعائم

You have been humble in it abstaining and it is the watering place

Except you no one else is regretful for what has passed him by of it

تواضعت فيه زاهداً وهو مأرب

سواك على ما فاته منه نادم

If the parties are diverse then consider them

And consider from them the suitable harmonious one

إذا كانت الأحزاب شتى فحسبها

وحسبك منها المستعد الملائم

And God has brought the hearts together so you do not find

A way to those wary hearts

وقد جمع اللّه القلوب فلم تجد

سبيلاً إلى تلك القلوب التمائم

When the ideal example saw his equal from his time

Following him the greatest things became insignificant to him

إذا المثل الأعلى رأى من زمانه

له تبعاً هانت عليه العظائم

And enough for the one who estranged you yesterday that he

Over what he incurred of your reproach is safe

وحسب الذي جافاك بالأمس أنه

على ما تجنّى من عتابك سالم

And whoever did not find refuge for himself and his time

Except you, you lured him with virtues

ومن لم يجد من نفسه وزمانه

مآباً إليك استدرجته المكارم

And the one whom you brought near willingly

Is not like the one whom you brought near forcibly

وليس الذي قربته وهو طائعٌ

كمثل الذي قربته وهو راغم

And the contentious enemy in poverty is most generous

In the eyes of the free over an enemy who has passed by insulting

وأكرم في الشحناء خصمٌ مدججٌ

لدى الحر من خصم مضى وهو شاتم

You are not exulting over whom you have supported

Nor gloating over whom you have defeated

وما أنت تياه على من نصرته

ولا متشفٍّ بالذي أنت هازم

Diverse battles you still fight

And in them there are no spoils except the hearts

معارك شتى لا تزال تخوضها

وليس بها غير القلوب غنائم

And the inescapable destiny in what you possess

Of an incident except the powers and determinations

وما القدر المحتوم فيما ملكته

لواقعة إلا القوى والعزائم

You have had mercy on the unyielding Palestine its protector

So the whole East became whom you have shown mercy

رحمت فلسطين الأباة حماتُها

فكان جميع الشرق من أنت راحم

And you saved it from its invaders destroying it

And its children those spears and swords

وأدركتها من أن تبيد غزاتَها

وأبناءها تلك القنا والصوارم

And if the fates did not intercede for them through you

Its ruins and relics would have been obscured

ولو لم تشفعك المقادير فيهمُ

بهم خفيتْ أطلالها والمعالم

Every empowered king spoke with steel

So every burning conscience from it is burning

تكلَّم بالفولاذ كل مملَّكٍ

فكل ضمير فاحم منه جاحم

And in every stronghold there is an inspirer from it

And in every sea there is a ship from it sailing

وفي كل بر معقل منه سائر

وفي كل بحر معقل منه عائم

And for the sinking beneath the worlds and above them

Earthquakes from their hands and catapults

وللخسف تحت العالمين وفوقهم

زلازل من أيديهمُ ورواجم

A doomsday of the world except that its torment

The innocent and sinner meet it on earth

قيامة دنيا غير أن عذابها

على الأرض يلقاه بريءٌ وآثم

Kingdoms in the world you had them destroyed

And you are the reconciler between them and peaceful

ممالك في الدنيا لديك تهالكتْ

وأنت الموالي بينها والمسالم

And each group is watching in its place

So neither is evil neglected nor getting worse

وكل فريق راصد في مكانه

فلا الشر متروك ولا متفاقم

And the threats of the vociferous are not significant

And after sayings no action is decisive

وليس وعيد الصاخبين بمنته

ولا عمل بعد الأقاويل حاسم

When the cheerful optimistic one calls

The sullen agitated pessimist answers

إذا ما دعا مستبشر متفائل

أجاب العبوس المرجف المتشائم

And no power of an oppressive tyrant lasts

His means are his sins and crimes

وما عز سلطان لعات مسلطٍ

وسائله آثامه والجرائم

And no people in the age of minds are led to demise

As prey is flung at them

ولا شعب في عصر العقول إلى الردى

يساق كما ترمَى إليه السوائم

And you even if you empowered your bastion careful

Of people that the people will not ravage the people suddenly

وأنت وإن مكنت حصنك مشفق

على الخلق من أن يدهم الخلق داهم

When your state rises in the land the demolished

Upon it and the destroyer are equal

إذا ما علت في الأرض دولتك استوى

هنالك مهدوم عليها وهادم

Whether from the East or the West a transgressor comes

And cordial affection has presented itself adjoining

من الشرق يأتي أم من الغرب عابث

وقد عرض الود العتيد المتاخم

And came to you with friendliness so you returned his greeting

An answer from you the conquering armies

وجاك بالزلفى فردتْ سلامه

جواباً له منك الجيوش الخضارم

They returned to the one who was deranged by the unknown his sanity

And interpreted the dream for the one who is dreaming

أعادت إلى من جُنَّ بالغيب عقله

وفسرت الرؤيا لمن هو حالم

And it was that which he encountered while defending

A warner of what he will encounter and he is attacking

وكان الذي لاقاه وهو مدافع

نذيراً بما يلقاه وهو مهاجم

And the desirer of war among the people in its name

Returned an adversary negotiating sometimes and bargaining

وعاد مريد الحرب في الخلق باسمها

غريماً يقاضي تارة ويساوم

Insisting on it for a while so when it presented itself to him

His screams calmed so he is abstaining

ألح بها حيناً فلما تمثلت

له سكنت صيحاته فهو واجم

And came with the covenant of alliance arguing

In his pact with whom you are arguing

وأقبل بالعهد الحليف رعاية

يخاصم في ميثاقه من تخاصم

And started calling the Turks in Egypt after

A time had passed and he was blaming the Turks

وأصبح يدعو الترك في مصر بعد ما

تقضَّى زمانٌ وهو في الترك لائم

And he used to fear their army while lying in wait

So he started hoping for their army and it is coming

وقد كان يخشى جيشهم وهو راصدٌ

فأصبح يرجو جيشهم وهو قادم

Taking refuge in them as companions for Egypt while behind them

Bedouins confusing it and non-Arabs

يلوذ بهم صحباً لمصر وخلفهم

أعاريب يسترعونها وأعاجم

You did not bring him near out of affinity and them

But it is his needs and he is in debt

وما قربته منك قربى ومنهمُ

ولكنها حاجاته وهو غارم

And those are not books between Egypt and them

But they are those fickle hearts

وما تلك كتب بين مصر وبينهم

ولكنها تلك القلوب الحوائم

The two sides compete in you politically

So each tribe from them is infatuated with you

تنافس فيك الجانبان سياسة

فكل قبيل منهما بك هائم

You have chosen proud of your position between them

So you are neither wronged nor wronging

تخيرت معتزاً مكانك منهما

فلا أنت مظلوم ولا أنت ظالم

That is how might determines and might is filling

Your hands and opinion passes and opinion is decisive

كذلك يقضي البأس والبأس مالئٌ

يديك ويمضي الرأي والرأي حازم

The crowding of the life of the worlds and it has

No alternative to the tremendous apparatus strengthening the competitors

زحام حياة العالمين وما لها

بغير العتاد الضخم يقوى المزاحم

And in it the few and powerless are not equal

Nor are its hawks and doves equal

ولا يستوي فيها كميٌّ وأعزل

ولا تستوي عقبانها والحمائم

And there is no good in a kingdom if it does not have for it

Troops from its sons and sturdy pillars

ولا خير في ملك إذا لم يكن له

ضراغم من أبنائه وقشاعم

You have concluded the jihad of the worlds yet

For the great openings the seals

ختمت جهاد العالمين وإنما

لعود الفتوحات الكبار الخواتم

You count them completing what you want

And for them in it you are leader and ruler

تعدُّهُمُ مستكملاً ما تريده

وأنت لهم فيه زعيم وحاكم

And whoever verified his words so his actions

Are narrators to the world for him and biographies

ومن صدقت أقواله ففعاله

رواة إلى الدنيا له وتراجم

And it suffices me that I am witness to what you have done

For Egypt and that I am knowledgeable of the outcomes

وحسبيَ أني شاهدٌ ما صنعتَه

لمصر وأنّي بالعواقب عالم