تُجدّدُ من ذكراك للشَرقِ مأتما

ونقضي بها حقّاً لمصر مُحتَّما

You renew mourning for the East with your memory,

And we fulfill it as an obligation for Egypt.

ذكرنا بك الأَيّامَ حُمراً من الوغى

تشقُّ عُبابَ النّارِ أو تلبسُ الدَّما

We recalled with you the red days of turmoil,

That tear through the clouds of fire or don the blood.

على جانِبَيْها من جهادِكَ هَبوةٌ

تُريكَ الصّباح الطلق أغبرَ أقتما

On both its sides, from your jihad, lie splendor

That shows you the open dawn grayer and darker.

تدَفَّقتَ في مكروهها الغمر لُجَّةً

تُواجه تيّار الرَّدى حيثُ يمّما

You rushed in its hated flood impetuously,

Confronting the tide of vileness wherever directed.

إذا ما استباحَ الذُّعرُ مُهجةَ باسلٍ

دَلفتَ تردُّ الخيلَ عن جانبِ الحِمى

If panic ransacked the abode of a hero,

You would enter, repelling horses from the place of zeal.

وما زِلتَ خفّاقَ اللّواءِ مُغامراً

تَقودُ من الأبطالِ جيشاً عرمرما

And you have not ceased to be the fluttering flag, venturesome,

Leading an army of champions noisy and boastful.

تُهيبُ بنا مُستبسلين أعزّةً

نرى الموتَ فيما يُورثُ المجدَ مغنما

It threatens us persisting arrogantly

When we see death where glory leaves profit.

علينا الحفاظُ المُرُّ نحمي بلادنا

وندفعُ عنها الغاصبَ المتهجِّما

It is upon us, the bitter protection, to guard our country

And repel the attacking usurper from it.

نبيتُ قياماً نتَّقِي كلَّ طارقٍ

إذا القومُ باتوا في المضاجعِ نُوّما

We stay up vigilant, fearing every knocker,

When the people sleep in beds slumbering.

شهيدَ الهوى هل تعرفُ اليومَ ذا هوىً

يُعاودُ منه الشّوقُ قلباً مُتيَّما

Martyr of passion, do you know today one of passion

Whose longing renews a grieving heart?

يرى مصر أوْلىَ من بنيه بنفسِه

ومن نفسهِ إن سِيمَ أمراً فصمَّما

He sees Egypt preferred over her sons with his soul

And over his soul if he is determined and resolute.

تأمّلْ وُجوهَ القومِ كيف تنكَّرتْ

فلستَ ترى فيها من الخيرِ ميسَما

Look at the faces of the people—how they have changed!

You will not see in them a trace of good.

وَعَزِّ حُماةَ النّيلِ وَاسْتفتِ أهلَه

أحقَّاً أضاعوا الرأي واستشعروا العَمى

Honor the protectors of the Nile and consult its people.

Is it right they lost reason and felt blindness?

مقالةُ زُورٍ من أُناسٍ أذلَّة

يقومون في الجُلَّى المقامَ المُذَمَّما

The speech of the feeble people is a lie

Who play the role of the disgraced instead of the respected.

أهاب بهم من جانبِ الغيلِ فتيةٌ

أبَوْا أن يكونَ الأمرُ سِرَّاً مُكتَّما

The youths were alarmed at them from the side of injustice,

Refusing for the matter to be secret and hidden.

قضاءُ بني السّكسون صادف شؤمُه

قضاءً من الغُرِّ الميامينِ مُبرَما

The fate of the Saxons met its misfortune

A fate from the ungrateful Mayamen sealed.

هُمُ اتّخذوا حقَّ الكنانةِ معقلاً

فما يطمعُ الأعداءُ أن يتهدَّما

They took the right of the disloyal as a stronghold.

So the enemies have no hope it will be demolished.

وهم أنكروا إلا الجلاءَ فلن ترى

لغاراتِهم من دون ذلك مُرتمى

And they denied anything but expulsion. You will not see

For their raids a goal other than that.

مَغاويرُ لا تُرجى لديهم هَوادةٌ

وفي مصرَ عادٍ يستبيحُ المحرَّما

Raiders in whom hope of peace is not expected

While in Egypt a transgressor makes the unlawful lawful.

ذكرتُ عليَّاً يرفع الصّوتَ داعياً

إلى الحقِّ شعباً بات نَهْباً مُقَسَّما

I remembered Ali raising his voice calling

To the truth a people who have become divided spoils.

ترامت به الأهواءُ شتَّى فلم تَدَعْ

له وُجهةً إن رامَ أن يتقدّما

The passions jostled him diversely, not leaving

For him a direction if he wanted to advance.

يرى الموتَ في رأي المُنادينَ باسمه

يُخالطه كَرْهاً ويَغشاهُ مُرغَما

He sees death in the call of those speaking in his name.

It mixes with him reluctantly and overwhelms him forcibly.

دعاه إلى الميثاق دَعْوةَ راغبٍ

إلى اللهِ يعتدُّ التقلُّبَ مأثما

He called him to the covenant—the call of one desiring

God—deeming hesitation a sin.

مضى جارُه الأوفى وجاور ربَّه

معلِّمهُ الأعلى فكان المعلّما

His most loyal neighbor passed away and lived near his Lord,

His highest teacher, so he was the teacher.

يَسُنُّ لِمصرَ الحُبَّ من وصفهِ الرَّدى

ويشرع للقومِ الجهادَ المنظَّما

He institutes love for Egypt from those who have maligned her

And enacts for the people organized jihad.

ويتلو عليهم في محاريبهِ العُلَى

كتاباً من الإِقدامِ والبأسِ مُحكَما

And he recites to them in his sublime prayer niches

A book of daring and might decisive.

رأى فتنةَ الأحزابِ تَعتصرُ القُوى

فشَمَّر يسقيها الحِفاظَ المُسمَّما

He saw the sedition of the factions weaken the strength

So he rolled up his sleeves to give it loyal protection.

يَودُّ رجالٌ غرَّهم باطلُ المُنَى

لو اتّبعوا الرأيَ الذي كان أحزما

Some men deluded by the vanity of purpose

Wish if they had followed the wiser opinion!

أهابَ بهم لا تأمنوا القومَ إنّهم

يُسِرّون يوماً للكنانةِ أشأما

He warned them, “Do not feel safe from the people. They

One day make the disloyal have misfortune.”

فلما رَأوْهُ بعد حينٍ تندَّموا

ولن ينفعَ المغبونَ أن يتندَّما

But when after a time they saw him, they regretted

And the deceived will not benefit from regret.

لكَ اللهُ من دانٍ على النأي شاهدٍ

على الغيبِ لا عيناً يفضُّ ولا فما

For you, from the All-Knowing Witness of the unseen, not an eye or mouth,

Allah wills judgment for one keeping away, watching.

يُطالعنا من كلّ صوبٍ مُناجياً

وينتابُنا من كلّ أَوْبٍ مُسلِّما

He looks upon us from every direction addressing us

And seizes us from every time submitting.

كذلك يستبقي العزيزُ حياتَه

ويستهلكُ الدّهرُ الذَّليلَ المُلطَّما

Thus the Almighty keeps his life

While time wears out the disgraced stained one.

مضى في الدُّروعِ السَّابغاتِ مُظفَّراً

وغُودِرَ في مثواه حُرّا مُكرَّما

He passed on in full coats of mail triumphant

And was shrouded in his dwelling free honored.

فتى البِرِّ لم يُعقِبْ سوى الذكرِ ثروةً

ولم يكُ ممّن يجعلُ الشَّعبَ سُلَّما

The young man of righteousness left no inheritance but fame.

He was not one who made the people a ladder.

ونحن وَرِثنا بأسَه وسلاحه

فيالكَ إرثاً من هُدى الله قيِّما

And we inherited his might and his weapons.

What an inheritance of God’s guidance proper!

هَلُمّوا إلينا إنّ فيهِ بقيّةً

لِمنْ كان من إرثِ النبيين مُعدِما

Come to us! In it is a remainder

For whoever was made destitute of the inheritance of prophets.

جُنِنَّا بمصرٍ ما سَلَوْنا لحادثٍ

هواها ولا خُنّا الشّهيدَ المُعظَّما

We were crazed for an Egypt that did not submit to an event deflecting her love

Nor betrayed the honored martyr.