النيلُ العَذبُ هُوَ الكَوثَر

وَالجَنَّةُ شاطِئُهُ الأَخضَر

The sweet Nile is al-Kawthar

And its green shore is Paradise

رَيّانُ الصَفحَةِ وَالمَنظَر

ما أَبهى الخُلدَ وَما أَنضَر

Watering the landscape and view

How beautiful is eternity and how green

البَحرُ الفَيّاضُ القُدسُ

الساقي الناسَ وَما غَرَسوا

The abundant holy sea

Quenching people and what they planted

وَهوَ المِنوالُ لِما لَبِسوا

وَالمُنعِمُ بِالقُطنِ الأَنوَر

It is the resource for what they wore

And blessed them with the bright cotton

جَعلَ الإِحسانَ لَهُ شَرعا

لَم يُخلِ الوادِيَ مِن مَرعى

He made benevolence a law for it

The valley was never devoid of pasture

فَتَرى زَرعاً يَتلو زَرعا

وَهُنا يُجنى وَهُنا يُبذَر

You see one crop follow another

Flowing, though it has no neighbor

جارٍ وَيُرى لَيسَ بِجارِ

لِأَناةٍ فيهِ وَوَقار

With deliberation and dignity in it

Pouring down masses collapsed

يَنصَبُّ كَتَلٍ مُنهارِ

وَيَضِجُّ فَتَحسَبُهُ يَزأَر

And foaming, as if it is growling

Brownish in color like its kin

حَبَشِيُّ اللَونِ كَجيرَتِهِ

مِن مَنبَعِهِ و بُحَيرَتِهِ

From its source and its lake

Dyeing the two banks with its duskiness

صَبَغَ الشَطَّينِ بِسُمرَتِهِ

لَوناً كَالمِسكِ وَكَالعَنبَر

With a color like musk and ambergris