أيا مصر كم فيكِ من جاهلٍ

تفرنجَ حتى بخطواتهِ

O Egypt, how many an ignorant one

Has become Westernized even in his steps

لقد أنكر الشرقَ وهو ابنهُ

وبالغرب هام وآفاتهِ

He has denied the East though it's his origin

And craved the West and its afflictions

تعوَّد قدحاً على جنسهِ

كذا المرءُ عبدٌ لعاداتهِ

He got used to lampooning his own people

Thus is one enslaved by his habits

فتسعى يداهُ إلى بؤسهِ

ويطلب عزّاً بزلاتهِ

His hands strive towards his misery

And he seeks pride through his errors

ويهدم باللؤم ما قد بنى ال

أوائلُ حبَّا بمرضاتهِ

And destroys with vileness what the ancestors

Had built with love and their pleasures

أضاع الوفاءَ وباع الحيا

وللغرب أبدى حماقاتهِ

He lost loyalty and sold dignity

And to the West displayed his follies

وأبدى الرطانةَ مستعجماً

ليضحك رهط سفاهاتهِ

And exhibited vulgarity, pretending to be civilized

To make his gang of fools laugh

وأغرى بقتل أَبيهِ الأُسا

ةَ ليمرحَ لهواً بحاناتهِ

And was tempted to kill his noble fathers

To frolic fancifully in their haunts

رحيقٌ صُراحٌ وجوهٌ صِبا

حٌ وعرضٌ مباحٌ للذَّاتهِ

Wine is sparkling, faces are rosy, bodies are luscious

And chastity is allowed for his pleasure

أمن ذاك تعجبُ وهو الذي

يعيب على الله آياتهِ

Is this not odd that he who

Criticizes God and His signs?

غدا يحسب الكفر شرطا لمن

اضاف الترقَي الى ذاتهِ

Tomorrow he will think blasphemy a condition

For anyone who adds progress to his essence

فيا نفس صبراً على ما مني

بهِ الشرق مِن جَورِ أسراتهِ

So O soul, be patient with what

The East is afflicted with from its elite

لقد عَقَّهُ اليومَ حتى بنوهُ

فخلوهُ طعمة جاراتهِ

For today even its children have stung it

Leaving it prey for its neighbors

نفوسٌ كبارٌ عقولٌ صغارٌ

وكونٌ يُحار بحالاتهِ

Great souls, little minds

And a universe that confuses with its states