بِكَ أُفق العَدل في مَصر اِستَنارْ

يا وَزير الملك يا عالي المَنارْ

With you the horizon of justice in Egypt shines bright

O minister of the king, O lofty minaret

يا مُشيراً جُود كَفيه غَدا

يَزدَري في كُل واد بِالبِحار

O counselor, your generous hands tomorrow

Will spurn every valley for the seas

وَنَصيراً لِكَسير مدحه

يَزدَهي كَالدُر في سلك النضار

And ally of the downtrodden whose praise

Flowers like pearls in the string of daybreak

وَأَميراً رَأيُه يَهدي إِلى

كُل ما فيهِ صَلاحٌ للدّيار

And prince whose insight guides to

All that brings goodness to homelands

وَمجيراً لِفَقير معسرٍ

فازَ مِن غَير سؤال بِاليَسار

And refuge for the destitute poor

Who won without asking with easiness

طالَ حَبسي يا أَبا الصَدّيق في

عَهد عيد الفطر في أَضيق دار

My imprisonment has been long, O Abu Al-Siddiq, in

The era of Eid Al-Fitr in the tightest home

وصغاري غَيَّرت أَحوالهم

فاقةٌ دارَت عَلَيهم بِالدَمار

And my little ones, their conditions have changed

Destitution has demolished them with havoc

فاكشف الكرب الَّذي حلّ وَجُد

بِالَّذي فيهِ لَهُم جبر انكسار

So relieve the plight that has befallen and the zeal

In which is for them mending of their breaking

وَانجز الوَعد وَفرّج كربة

يا أَبا العَلياء مِن قبل البوار

And fulfill the promise and relieve the agony

O father of the sublime, afore the dunes

وَتلطف بخديم شاكر

لِأَياد لَم تقيَّد بانحصار

And be kind to a servant thankful

For hands that were not limited by confinement

وَكَفاه في شُهور سَبعة

ما بَراه مِن أَليم الانتظار

And suffice him in seven months

What he saw of the pain of waiting

زادَكَ المَولى قبولاً ما بَدا

ساطع الأَنوار مِن شَمس النَهار

May God increase your acceptance, what appeared

Radiant lights from the sun of day