رَوضنا مِن رِياضكم فينان

وَثَرانا مِن نيلكُم رَيانُ

Our meadow from your meadows is delighted

And our Nile from your Nile is sated

وَهَوانا لَو تَقدرون هَوانا

كُلُّ قَلب مِنهُ لَكُم مَلآن

And we'd be humiliated if you could humiliate

Every heart for you is filled

وَبِرَغم العِدا أَواصى قربا

نا وثاق لَم تَبلها الأَزمان

In spite of enmity, kinship remains

Our bond time cannot fray

وَعُيون يَقظى روانٍ إِلَيكُم

دَمعَها في مصابِكُم لا يُصان

Eyes keep vigil looking to you

Their tears for your trials won't go away

إِن سررتم فَفي فلسطين عيد

أَو حَزِنتُم لَم تَعدُها الأَحزان

If you're joyous, in Palestine there is feast

Or if you're saddened, sorrows won't increase

قَد رَأَوا بِالقَناة أَن يَقطعونا

فَإِذا الدين جسرها وَاللِسان

They thought the canal could divide us

But faith is its bridge and tongue likewise

وَإِذا بِالقُلوب تَهفو عَلى الني

ل ظِماء يودي بِها الخَفَقان

And hearts yearn for the Nile

Thirsty, fluttering without guile

أَحسنَ اللَه وردَكُم هَل يُغي

ض النيلَ كاسٌ يَحيا بِها ظَمآن

God bless your return, would the Nile be denied?

A cup by which the thirsty are revived

جئتكُم عاتِباً بَلابلَ مصر

بلبل الرَوض عتبه أَلحان

I've come to you complaining, Egypt's nightingale

The meadow's nightingale with melody and tale

رفرف الشعر فَوقَكُم بِجَناحَي

ه وَفي ساحكم غَذاه البَيان

Poetry fluttering over you with its wing

And in your plain its nourishment wording

وَتَسامى صَرح العُروبة في مِص

ر وَهَل غَيرَكُم لَهُ أَركان

The edifice of Arabism towers in Egypt

And who but you are its pillars kept?

كَم بِلاد تَهزكم لَيسَ فيها

لَكُمُ جيرة وَلا إِخوان

So many countries shake you, in them no

Neighbor of yours nor brethren you know

خَطبنا لا يَهز شَوقي ولَكن

جاءَ روما فَهَزَّه الرومان

We proposed, my passion shakes but then

Rome came and shook the Romans

خَطبنا لا يَهز حافظ إبرا

هيم لَكن تَهزه اليابان

We proposed, Hafiz Ibrahim shakes not

But Japan shakes him a lot

ما لمطران يا فَلسطين شَأن

بِكَ لَكن لَهُ بنيرونَ شان

The Bishop, O Palestine, has no affair with you

Yet Nero certainly gave him travail

سَيَقولون قدست هَذِهِ الأَر

ض فَما أَن لَنا بِها شَيطان

They'll say "we sanctified this land"

As if for them in it no Satan stood

بَل فَلسطين بِالشَياطين مَلأى

ضَجَتِ الأنس مِنهُم وَالجان

Nay, Palestine with devils is filled

Jinn and mankind by them bewildered

إِن بَلَوتُم مِنهُم فَريقاً فإنا

قَد رَمانا باثنين هَذا الزَمان

If you tested some of them, we have borne

Twofold in this age, shamed and worn

فَإِذا المال فاتَ ذاكَ فَهَذا

قَرِمٌ لا تَفوتهُ الأَبدانُ

If money goes, that goes, but this

Stigma won't leave bodies, nonetheless

سَيقولون رَب إخوان صدق

لَكَ في مصر بَينَهُم أَضغان

They'll say "Lord, sincere brothers you've assigned"

"Among them in Egypt cordial ties bind"

قَطَعوا الوَحيَ بِالتَقاطُع عَنا

إِنَّ هَذا جَزاؤه الحرمان

They've severed ties, no longer speaking

For this is the recompense of breaching

تِلكَ شَكوى تَروعني كَيفَ صاروا

فَعَساها ذِكرى لَهُم كَيفَ كانوا

These are complaints that terrify me, how they came to be

May it be a lesson to them, how it used to be