اشهَدي يا مِصرُ أَعمالَ البَنينْ

وَاِنظُري الآياتِ حيناً بَعدَ حينْ

Witness, O Egypt, the deeds of the sons,

And behold the signs from time to time.

كَشَفَ الحِدثانُ عَن مَكنونِها

فَأَزالَ الشَكَّ عَن وَجهِ اليَقينْ

The events have uncovered what was hidden,

And removed doubt from the face of certainty.

ذَلِكَ الجِدُّ فَذوقي مُرَّهُ

وَخُذيهِ مِن أَكُفِّ اللاعِبينْ

That is true grit, so taste its bitterness,

And take it from the hands of the frivolous.

اشرَبي الكَأسَ دِهاقاً وَاِسمَعي

عِظةَ المَخمورِ بَينَ الشارِبينْ

Drink the cup violently and listen

To the sermon of the drunk between the drinkers.

أَنتِ خُنتِ البِرَّ إِذ لَم تَعرِفي

مَوضِعَ الخائِنِ وَالبَرِّ الأَمينْ

You have betrayed righteousness when you did not recognize

The place of the traitor and the righteous trustee.

تَجعَلينَ الأَمرَ فَوضى ما لَهُ

مِن نِظامٍ واضِحٍ لِلمُستَبينْ

You make the matter chaotic, with no

Clear system for the discerning.

وَتَرَينَ الناسَ ناساً كُلَّهُم

مِن مَناجيدَ وَصَرعى خامِدينْ

And you see people all as one,

Among the eminent and the fallen, dormant.

أَضلالاً مِنكِ تَجزينَ الأُلى

أَفسَدوا الأَمرَ جَزاءَ المُصلِحينْ

You wrongly reward the deviants

Who corrupted the matter, the reward of reformers.

وَتُقيمينَ رِجالاً نَقَضوا

عَهدَكِ الأَوفى مَقامَ المُخلِصينْ

And you appoint men who broke

Your most loyal covenant, in the place of the loyal.

إيهِ يا مِصرُ أَلَمّا تَعلَمي

حادِثاتِ الدَهرِ في ماضي السِنينْ

Oh Egypt, if only you knew

The events of fate in the past years!

إيهِ يا مِصرُ اِذكُريها وَاِنظُري

أَيَّ شَعبٍ شَعبَكِ العاني الحَزينْ

Oh Egypt, remember them and look -

What people is your suffering, melancholy people?

وَكِلي الأَمرَ إِلى اللَهِ فَما

لَكِ في الدُنيا سِواهُ مِن مُعينْ

And entrust the matter to God, for you

Have none but Him in the world as a helper.

عُدَّةُ الأَقطارِ في شِدَّتِها

وَغِياثُ الأُمَمِ المُستَضعَفينْ

The weapon of nations in their firmness

And the salvation of the weak people.

يَدفَعُ الأَهوالَ عَن مَكروبِها

حينَ لا يُرجى دِفاعُ الناصِرينْ

It dispels the horrors from its distressed,

When the defense of supporters is not hoped for.

وَيُعيدُ المَيتَ مِن آمالِها

مُشرِقَ الطَلعَةِ وَضّاحَ الجَبينْ

And it returns the dead from its hopes -

Rising in appearance and bright of forehead.

مالِكُ المُلكِ مَضَت أَحكامُهُ

وَجَرَت أَقدارُهُ في العالَمينْ

The King of the Kingdom - His judgments have passed

And His destinies flowed in the worlds.

ما لِنفسٍ قُوَّةٌ في مُلكِهِ

جَلَّ ذو القُوَّةِ وَالحَولِ المَتينْ

No soul has power in His kingdom -

Majestic is He of great power and firm prowess.

تَذهَبُ الهَزَّةُ مِن أُسطولِهِ

بِأَساطيلِ المُلوكِ القادِرينْ

Agitation leaves His fleet

With the fleets of mighty kings.

وَإِذا ما هَمَّ يَوماً جُندُهُ

فَالمَنايا لِلجُنودِ الغالِبينْ

And if His soldiers intend one day

Then woe to the conquering soldiers!

سائِلِ الغَبراءَ كَم مِن دُوَلٍ

ذَهَبَت آثارُها في الغابِرينْ

Ask the dust - how many states

Whose traces disappeared into the past?

حَمَلَتها أَعصُراً ثُمَّ اِنطَوَت

في عُصورِ الذاهِبينَ الأَوَّلينْ

It carried them for eras, then folded

In the ages of the earliest departed.

هَمَدَت في جانِبٍ مِن بَطنِها

يَسَعُ الأَحياءَ مِنّا أَجمَعينْ

It subsided in a side from its belly

That accommodates all of us alive.

سَل عَنِ التيجانِ وَاِنظُر هَل تَرى

فيهِ شَيئاً مِن عُروشِ المالِكينْ

Ask about the crowns - do you see

In them anything of the thrones of kings?

وَتَأَمَّل هَل لَهُم في جَوفِهِ

مِن جُنودٍ أَو بُنودٍ أَو سَفينْ

And consider - do they have in its interior

Soldiers, fortresses, or ships?

قَلِّبِ التُربَ فَكَم في التُربِ مِن

دَولَةٍ صَرعى وَمِن مُلكٍ دَفينْ

Turn over the soil - how much in the soil

Of fallen state and buried kingdom!

مَعرضُ الأَجيالِ إِن طُفتَ بِهِ

فَتَمَهَّل وَاِتَّئِد في الطائِفينْ

The passage of generations - if you circle it

Then tarry and settle among the circlers.

وَاِجعَلِ المِصباحَ في ظُلمَتِهِ

عِبرَةَ المَوتِ لِقَومٍ مُبصِرينْ

And make the lantern in its darkness

A lesson of death for discerning people.

إِنَّما الدُنيا حَياةٌ تَنقَضي

وَحَديثٌ نافِعٌ لِلذاكِرينْ

The life of this world is fleeting

And a beneficial tale for those who remember.

وَضَحَ الحَقُّ لِقَومٍ جاهِلينْ

فَاِنظُري يا مِصرُ ماذا تَأمُرينْ

The truth has become clear to an ignorant people.

So look, O Egypt, what you would command!

أَنتِ لِلَهِ بِناءٌ قائِمٌ

تَلتَوي عَنهُ أُكُفُّ الهادِمينْ

You are, for God, an erect building

That the hands of demolishers twist away from.

صابِري الأَحداثَ مَهما مَكَرَت

وَثِقي بِاللَهِ خَيرِ الماكِرينْ

Endure events, no matter how they scheme,

And trust in God, the Best of schemers.

لا تُراعي إِنَّ مِن آياتِهِ

ما يُراعي فيكِ مِن دُنيا وَدينْ

Do not heed - indeed, of His signs

Is what Heeds you, of world and religion.

اطلُبي ما شِئتِ مِنهُ وَارقُبي

حُكمَهُ في شَعبِكِ العاني الرَهينْ

Seek from Him what you wish and watch

His wisdom in your captive, wretched people.

أَهِيَ الأَحداثُ لا تُنصِفُنا

فَتَعالى اللَهُ خَيرُ الحاكِمينْ

Are not events doing us justice?

So exalted is God, the Best of judges.

وَيحَ نَفسي وَيحَ مِصرٍ كُلَّما

ذَكَرَت مِصرُ بَنيها الهالِكينْ

Woe to my soul and woe to Egypt whenever

It recalls its perished sons!

يَومَ جاشَ الهَولُ في أَرجائِها

فَاِتَّقَتهُ بِالشَبابِ الناهِضينْ

The day terror raged within it

And it sought refuge in the roused youth -

بِنُفوسٍ أَقبَلَت دَهماؤُها

تَتَرامى مِن أُلوفٍ وَمِئينْ

With souls whose multitudes rushed,

Sacrificing themselves in thousands and hundreds -

تَفتَدي مِصرَ وَتَقضي حَقَّها

وَتُريها هِمَمَ المُستَبسِلينْ

To redeem Egypt and fulfill its right

And show it the resolve of the resolute;

حَدِّثي يا مِصرُ عَنهُم وَاِذكُري

كَيفَ كانَت غَضبَةُ الشَعبِ الرَزينْ

They magnified whatever you wished

Of its sanctity, and passed as the immortal.

أَكرميهِم وَاِحفَظي ما بَذَلوا

مِن دَمٍ غالٍ وَمِن عُمرٍ ثَمينْ

How can we forget them and the long span?

How can we forget the honest trustees?

شُهَداءُ الحبِّ بَرّوا وَوَفوا

وَقَضَوا مِن حَقِّهِ ما تَعلَمينْ

We have accepted treason as religion after them,

So upon God is the recompense of traitors.

عَظَّموا ما شِئتِ مِن حُرمَتِهِ

وَمَضَوا في العُظَماءِ الخالِدينْ

The weepers stopped weeping for them

So their believing mothers wept for them.

كَيفَ نَنساهُم وَما طالَ المَدى

كَيفَ نَنسى الأُمَناءَ الصادِقينْ

Oh my people - may it console the bereaved mothers

When their sons passed with prolonged moaning.

أَرَضينا الغَدرَ ديناً بَعدَهُم

فَعَلى اللَهِ جَزاءُ الغادِرينْ

Oh my people - for the orphans after them,

The widows, and the submissive elders.

كَفكَفَ الباكونَ مِن أَدمُعِهِم

فَبَكَتهُم أُمَّهاتُ المُؤمِنينْ

Mercy for the child made miserable by sorrow,

For the loving father and imprisoned uncle.

يا لِقَومي لِلثَكالى شَفَّها

إِذ مَضى أَبناؤُها طولُ الرَنينْ

It has dried until its mother does not see what

Dried upon it - the hands of benefactors.

يا لِقَومي لِليَتامى بَعدَهُم

وَالأَيامى وَالشُيوخِ الهامِدينْ

It seeks livelihood and she weeps, and for her

Is an evil neighbor among profligate men.

رَحمَةً لِلطِفلِ يَبريهِ الأَسى

لِلأَبِ المودي وَلِلعَمِّ السَجينْ

It bears hardship and its grandfather suffers,

While he sighs in comfort among the delicate.

جَفَّ حَتّى ما تَراهُ أُمُّهُ

حينَ جَفَّت عَنهُ أَيدي المُحسِنينْ

The most melodious tunes in its hearing

Are the ringing of complaints and moans' echoes.

يَطلُبُ القوتَ فَتَبكي وَلَها

جارُ سوءٍ مِن رِجالٍ مُترَفينْ

Possessed by the world, yet no world for it

Except what meager living it attained.

تَحمِلُ الضُرَّ وَيَشقى جَدُّها

وَهوَ يَندى نَضرَةً في الناعِمينْ

People see it only greedy,

Baring fangs like a wretched wolf.

أَطيَبُ الأَنغامِ في مَسمَعِهِ

رِنَّةُ الشَكوى وَتَردادُ الأَنينْ

Good has fallen and its pattern is corrupted

By a time inclined towards evil's companion.

جُنَّ بِالدُنيا وَلا دُنيا لَهُ

غَيرُ ما أدركَ مِن عَيشٍ مَهينْ

It taught people what they were taught

Of despicable traits that disgusted the noble.

لا يَراهُ الناسُ إِلّا جَشِعاً

بارِزَ الأَنيابِ كَالذِئبِ اللَعينْ

The people do not want of its morals

Except the morals of the honorable commanders.

طاحَ بِالخَيرِ وَعَفّى رَسمَهُ

زَمَنٌ لِلشَرِّ مُنبَتُّ القَرينْ

Oh, Nile's guardians - enough for me;

Does the Nile remain for the colonizers?

عَلَّمَ الأَقوامَ ما عَلَّمَهُم

مِن سَجايا بَرَّحَت بِالأَكرَمينْ

Oh, Nile's guardians - preserve its possession

And I see the Nile for other people.

ما يَوَدُّ الشَعبُ مِن أَخلاقِهِ

غَيرَ أَخلاقِ النُهاةِ الآمِرينْ

Give glad tidings, O people, I see

In the Nile's destiny the sight of warners.

يا حُماةَ النيلِ حَسبي وَكَفى

أَيظَلُّ النيلُ لِلمُستَعمِرينْ

No - and who cast his matter to us

We did not leave it in the hands of deserters.

يا حُماةَ النيلِ صونوا مُلكَهُ

وَأَرى النيلَ لِقَومٍ آخَرينْ

We are the party of God - we protected His right

And preserved His covenant among violators.

بَشِّروا يا قَومُ إِنّي لَأَرى

في مَصيرِ النيلِ رَأيَ المُنذِرينْ

We pledged allegiance to Him since we were

Upon supporting the truth, and we were acting.

لا وَمَن أَلقى إِلَينا أَمرَهُ

لا تَرَكناهُ بِأَيدي الخاذِلينْ

Whether we get angry or become content, it is for Him;

We do not care about the nonsense of alarmists.

نَحنُ حِزبُ اللَهِ صُنّا حَقَّهُ

وَحَفِظنا عَهدَهُ في الناكِثينْ

We carry the pens as armor, and ours

Are the scriptures of the righteous among writers.

نَحنُ بايَعناهُ مُذ كُنّا عَلى

نُصرَةِ الحَقِّ وَكُنّا فاعِلينْ

Not the villains like the misguided chiefs,

Nor the free like the enslaved.

إِن غَضِبنا أَو رَضينا فَلَهُ

لا نُبالي تُرَّهاتِ المُرجِفينْ

We did not accept the plan of the misguided, nor

Did we fault the state of the submissive weak.

نَحمِلُ الأَقلامَ غُرّاً وَلَنا

صُحُفُ الأَبرارِ بَينَ الكاتِبينْ

Oh my people - struggle, do not despair,

And Allah will come with clear victory.

ما الأَلِبّاءُ كَضُلّالِ النُهى

لا وَلا الأَحرارُ كُالمُستَعبَدينْ

Support Egypt if it becomes terrified

And apprehensive of the brave youths.

ما رَضينا خُطَّةَ الغاوي وَلا

عابَنا شَأنُ الذَليلِ المُستَكينْ

Protect it - for if Egypt falls,

The heritage of Muslims is lost in the world.

يا لِقَومي جاهِدوا لا تَهنوا

وَسَيَأتي اللَهُ بِالنَصرِ المُبينْ

Oh my people - struggle, do not weaken,

And Allah will come with clear victory.

أَنجدوا مِصرَ إِذا ما فَزِعَت

وَأَهابَت بِالكُماةِ الباسِلينْ

Support Egypt if it becomes terrified

And apprehensive of the brave youths.

احفَظوها إِنَّ مِصراً إن تَضِع

ضاعَ في الدُنيا تُراثُ المُسلِمينْ

Protect it, for if Egypt falls,

The heritage of the Muslims is lost in the world!