في كُلِّ يَومٍ شِرعَةٌ وَنِظامُ

ما هَكَذا الأَحكامُ وَالحُكّامُ

Every day there is a new constitution and system

Not so are the rules and the rulers

عِشرونَ عاماً وَالدِيارُ مَريضَةٌ

تَنتابُها الأَدواءُ وَالأَسقامُ

Twenty years and the homeland is sick

Afflicted with illnesses and epidemics

إِنَّ الأُساةَ لَتَعرِفُ الداءَ الَّذي

تَرَكَ المَريضَ تُذيبُهُ الآلامُ

Indeed the doctor knows the disease that

Left the patient melting with pain

وَلَرُبَّما غَشَّ الطَبيبُ عَليلَهُ

لِيَعودَ مِنهُ الداءُ وَهوَ عُقامُ

And sometimes the doctor deceives his patient

So that the disease returns and he is incurable

كَيفَ الشِفاءُ لِمِصرَ مِن أَدوائِها

أَم كَيفَ يُرجى عِزُّها وَيُرامُ

How can there be healing for Egypt from her diseases?

Or how can her glory and height be hoped for?

وَالمُصلِحونَ كَما عَلِمتَ وَأَهلُها

عَنها عَلى زَجرِ المُهيبِ نِيامُ

As you know, the reformers and her people

Are asleep to the roar of the intimidator

و إذا النفوس تعدَّدت أهواؤها

شقِيَت بها الكتّابُ والأقلامُ

And if the souls differ in their whims

The writers and pens are miserable

يا دَولَةً رفعَت عَلى أَوطانِنا

عَلَماً تُنَكَّسُ تَحتَهُ الأَعلامُ

O State that raised over our homelands

A flag under which flags bow down

أَينَ المَواثيقُ الَّتي أَبرَمتِها

إِن كانَ مِنكِ لِمَوثِقٍ إِبرامُ

Where are the covenants you concluded?

If you ever concluded a covenant

لَم تَحفِلي بِعُهودِنا فَنَقَضتِها

يا هَذِهِ نَقضُ العُهودِ حَرامُ

You did not heed our pacts so you violated them

O you for whom violating pacts is a sin

عِشرونَ عاماً ما كَفَتكِ وَهَكَذا

تَأتي وَتَذهَبُ بَعدَها الأَعوامُ

Twenty years did not satisfy you, and so

The years will come and go after it

طالَ المُقامُ وَأَنتِ أَنتِ وَلَم يَكُن

لِيَطولَ لَولا الجَهلُ منكِ مُقامُ

The stay grew long while you are still you, and would not

Have lingered, had not ignorance from you lingered

دَومي فَما لِلجاهِلينَ دَوامُ

وَكَذا يَكونُ الجِدُّ وَالإِقدامُ

It lasts, for the ignorant have no permanence

And so determination and resolve will be

الأَرضُ أَرضُكِ وَالسَماءُ حَليفَةٌ

لَكِ وَاللَيالي وَالوَرى خُدّامُ

The land is your land, the sky an ally

To you, and the nights and the land your servants

يا أُمَّةً خاطَ الكَرى أَجفانَها

هُبّي فَقَد أَودَت بِكِ الأَحلامُ

O nation the times have sewn its eyelids

Awake, for dreams have led you to ruin

هُبّي فَما يَحمي المَحارِمَ راقِدٌ

وَالمَرءُ يُظلَمُ غافِلاً وَيُضامُ

Awake, for no sleeping defender protects holy places

And man is wronged inattentive and oppressed

هُبّي فَما يُغني رُقادُكِ وَالعِدى

حَولَ الحِمى مُستَيقِظونَ قِيامُ

Awake, your sleep is useless while transgression

Around the sanctuary is awake and standing guard

عَجَباً لِهَذا النّيل كَيفَ نَعَقُّهُ

وَيَدومُ مِنهُ البِرُّ وَالإِكرامُ

Strange is this Nile, how we pollute it

Yet kindness and honour flow enduringly from it

لَو كانَ يَجزينا بِسوءِ صَنيعِنا

أَودى بِهاتيكَ النُفوسِ أُوامُ

If it requited our evil with evil

Those souls would have been destroyed long ago

لَكِنَّها رَحِمُ الجُدودِ وَلَم تَزَل

تُرعى لَدى أَمثالِهِ الأَرحامُ

But it is mercy of ancestors and has never ceased

To nurture the wombs of its likes

شَيئانِ يَذهَبُ بِالشُعوبِ كِلاهُما

نَومٌ عَنِ الأَوطانِ وَاِستِسلامُ

Two things take peoples away both together:

Sleep from the homeland and surrender

إِلّا يَحِن لِلراقِدينَ قِيامُ

فَعَلَيهِمُ وَعَلى الدِيارِ سَلامُ

Unless those who lie asleep arise

Upon them and upon the home be peace