اليوم جئت بمحكم الإنذارِ

Today I have come with a decisive warning

O you of sincere intentions and determination

يا صادق النيات والإصرارِ

Show them your spears after you lured them

When you would soften their hearts and hold back

أَرِهِم مِراسَكَ بعد ما استدرجتَهم

And you tested them with pretenses so they grew bold

So you tested them with the harshness of the Compeller

حيناً تُلِينُ قلوبَهم وتدارى

They angered you so be harshest upon them

For the truth is harder than their steel and fire

وبلوتهم متجمّلاً فاستأسدوا

They were openly hateful to your people after

You learned of their tremendous secrets

فبلوتهم بخشونة الجبار

And you certainly possessed the supreme argument and left

No way for them to excuses

هم أغضبوك فكن أشدَّ عليهمُ

O free man of Egypt and its savior tomorrow

With the powers of refusal and honor of the free

للحق من فولاذهم والنار

Hopes I proposed which you raged against

Imposing conditions on the compelled to the elect

جهروا لقومك بالكريهة بعد ما

And when hearts befriend each other you disposed

In the ways of days and decrees

أدركت منهم هائل الأسرار

Your people will see with their eyes their independence

After they read it in my poems

ولقد ملكت الحجة الكبرى فلم

And Egypt will be sweet for its righteous people not

For rapacious ones from others and vagabonds

تترك لهم سبلاً إلى الأعذار

يا حر مصر ويا منجّيها غداً

بقوى الأباة وعزة الأحرار

آمال مقترح سعيت فهجتها

شرطاً على المضطر للمختار

وإذا تألفت القلوب تصرفت

في سيرة الأيام والأقدار

سَيرَى عياناً قومُك استقلالهم

من بعد ما قرأوه في أشعاري

وتطيب مصر لأهلها الأبرار لا

لكواسر من غيرهم وضواري