قم سعدُ تشهد ما دهاها

البغي منتهكٌ حماها

Rise Saad, witness what misfortunes have befallen her

The tyrant violated her sanctity

لما رآك تنام شدذ

على الحبيبة واستباها

When he saw you asleep, he pounced

Upon the beloved and subjugated her

هي مصر في الأغلال بع

دك يضرب السابي قفاها

She is Egypt bound in shackles, crying

After you, as the usurper strikes her nape

عقد الحديد على يدي

ها بالحديد وكم فاها

He clasped iron cuffs around her wrists

With iron has he bound her, so much did he wrong her

واقتادها كالعبدة ال

خرساء نازفةً دماها

And led her like a mute slave girl

Bleeding, her blood trickling

يا ويحه لما ثنا

ها بالغدائر وامتطاها

Woe to him! When he bent

Her with misfortunes and rode her

الشرق ضج عليه باللعنات

واسترعا الآلها

The East roared at him with curses

And its gods trembled

اتموت مصر ولا يلا

قي الموت اهلوها فداها

Does Egypt have to die without

Meeting death? Sacrifice yourself for her

قسماً بلبناني وهذا

من يميني منتهاها

I swear by my Lebanese soul and this

Is my solemn oath until the end

روحي فدى مصرٍ وتسلم

روحها مما دهاها

My soul redeems Egypt, handing

Over itself for the wrongs done to her

وبجاه ارزي افتدي

في جانب الهرمين جاها

And for the sanctity of her pyramids, redeem

Her from the side of the two pyramids

ان الكنانة مهجةٌ

للشرق لا يحيا بلاها

Verily, Cairo is a burning wound

For the East - it cannot live without her

ومن البلية أن من

افتى بنكبتها فتاها

And the calamity is that he who

Betrayed her became her jurist

اخذ السهام سهامها

مسنونةً وبها رماها

He took the arrows of her arrows

Poisoned, and with them he struck her

اصمى أمانيها وقوض

ما بنته من علاها

He suppressed her hopes and destroyed

All the glory she had built

فارائك النواب كالاطلال

موحشةً تراها

So her parliament is like ruins

Bleak, you can see it

والوفد كالاسد المكبل

بالحديد على ثراها

And the delegation like a lion shackled

With iron chains in its den

منعوا الكلام فان تحرك

مقولٌ خاطوا الشفاها

They silenced speech, so if a word stirs

They stitch up the lips

منعوا المغني ان يغني

والسميع يقول آها

They stopped the singer from singing

And the hearing from saying "ah!"

سجنوا الخواطر في الضما

ئر كالقصائر في خباها

They imprisoned thoughts in graves

Like pariahs in their hiding places

ساموا الصحافة ذلةً

لو سيمها عبدٌ أباها

They branded the press with humiliation

If a slave were so branded, he would disown it

ومحمدٌ في دسته

يقسو ومصرٌ في اساها

And Muhammad with his hands

Oppresses, while Egypt beneath him

تبكي صفيتها دماً

وتذوب مهجة مصطفاها

Weeps blood for her loved ones

And melts for the agony of her dear Mustafa

لبنان لا يرضى الحيا

ة ومصر تدمع مقلتاها

Lebanon will not accept life

While Egypt's eyelids shed their tears

ماذا يلاقي اللورد في

ارضٍ اذا جفت مياها

What will the Lord find in a land

Once its waters have dried up?

فالنيل ينضب ماؤه

ان ذل اهلوه جباها

The Nile will run dry of water

If they disgrace its people

قل للفؤادِ مليكها

ان العيون نفت كراها

Say to the heart of its queen

That the eyes have rejected despotism

مهما تطل هذي الليا

لي فالضحى آتٍ وراها

No matter how long these nights linger

The dawn will come after them

والتاج يسلم للذي

ان روعت مصرٌ حماها

And the crown will go to the one

Who protected Egypt if she called for help

واذا بكت لملمةٍ

هاج البكاء له بكاها

And if a protected one cried,

Her crying provoked his crying for her

هيهات يرضى العيش فيها

من تنكب عن رضاها

Never can he who shunned her consent live in her